Category: Instruction
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How to Report a PayPal Fake Email
How to recognize and How to Report a PayPal Fake Email Reporting a fake PayPal email to PayPal helps everyone. Your report gives PayPal another opportunity to see how these emails are being created and further protect your account from hacks. 1. PayPal answers what to do: If you think you have experienced PayPal fraud or…
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Securi – WordPress Vulnerability
Securi – WordPress Plugin Vulnerability – WPTouch This is a copy of an email I received. Pass the information along to anyone with a Word Press site that may be using this plugin. Our research team found a very serious vulnerability in the WPTouch Plugin for WordPress that allows an attacker to upload files…
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Beware of SCAMS Via PayPal Emails
Beware of SCAMS Via Emails – PayPal I recently received an email that appeared to be from PayPal. Taking a second glance, it was not from Paypal. I forwarded the email to the PayPal Spoof organization so they can prevent this from happening. …
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Ebay Database Hacked – Change Your Password
In February or March, Ebay was hacked and the database was stolen. Ebay hacked. A cyber criminal has gotten into the Ebay customer database using an employee login account and the records for customers has been compromised. It is a good time to change this password. For those that took my class on password suggestions…
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Malwarebytes for finding the malware and removing it
I have been using Malwarebytes since I first began cleaning systems of Malware. Wikipedia says it was first released in 2008.That was 5 years ago and the new interface (front user screen) is new and different. Malwarebytes is the best and even better now. It scans for PUPs; potentially unwanted programs. These programs are the…
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Sharing Malware 101 from About .com
Sharing Malware 101 from About .com Check out this article from About.com. You will find a great definition of threats to your PC explained in a way that is easy and clear. Click the image to read the article Do you like this? [spider_facebook id=”1″]
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Does Norton Protect Against Malware?
Norton products are often questioned: Does Norton Protect Against Malware? They come for free on many new systems from the Big Box stores and I find myself uninstalling them in favor of a more robust Anit-Malware product. So, does Norton protect against malware? I think so. But a person using the computer needs to be educated…
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Can Your Computer Webcam be used Remotely?
Can webcam be used remotely? Web Cams Used Remotely according to this article in Wired Magazine can and have been used this way since 2007. A tool called Flame Spy tool does it. It is not just in the movies. Is it true? Can a computer Webcam be used remotely? Your can read the “Wired”…
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Sucuri Reveals a Denial of Service Attack for WordPress
This is a repost from an announcement by Sucuri, The web security company. Protect your site from DDoS attacks If you’ve been following our blog, you know that we recently uncovered multiple DoS / DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks, in which attackers are abusing the built-in pingback feature found in WordPress to carry out DDOS attacks on sites. If…
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Phone App Infected with Malware
Phone App Flappy Bird, target of Malware infection for users. One very popular game app for Android and iPhone is putting Malware on the phones. “All of the fake versions we’ve seen so far are premium service abusers — apps that send messages to premium numbers, thus causing unwanted charges to victims’ phone-billing statements,” This…