Balough
June 8, 2022
(June 8, 2022) What do Robert De Niro, Kate Winslet, Finding Dory, Breaking Bad, Billie Eilish, and Lovely Bones all have in common? Wait! Before doing an online search for the answer, read on to keep you out of the danger zone. All the terms are number one in their categories to contain potential malware, […]
Balough
April 9, 2021
(April 9, 2021) That perfect job offer you receive from LinkedIn could be a sophisticated backdoor Trojan to take over your computer, according to eSentire, a cybersecurity solutions provider. The company found hackers are targeting professionals on LinkedIn using a malicious zip file. The hackers use the job position listed on the target’s LinkedIn profile. […]
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March 29, 2019
(March 29, 2019) Just check one of four boxes on the Office Depot/OfficeMax PC Health Check Program and it will find malware on your computer, even though the result is not linked to any scan. Confused? The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) found this practice deceptive, too. To settle the case, the company and the program […]
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March 15, 2018
(March 15, 2018) Cybercriminals are following the money and it is leading them to cryptocurrency. In the March 2018 McAfee Labs Threats Report, the company found “one of the biggest developments in cybercrime is an increasing emphasis on cryptocurrency hijacking, which coincided with the increased market interest in digital currencies.” The criminal interest in cryptocurrency […]
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December 14, 2016
(December 14, 2016) Ransomware attacks continued to accelerate in 2016, both in terms of attacks and the variety of programs, a new report says. From January to the end of September, attacks on businesses increased threefold from one every 2 minutes to one every 40 seconds. For individuals, attacks increased to one every 10 seconds […]
Balough
March 20, 2015
Has your computer been hacked? Want to know what to do? The Federal Trade Commission has prepared a short video giving basic pointers on cleaning your computer of malware and getting it working again. Here’s the video:
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February 19, 2014
Beware of a malware computer program that encrypts all of your computer data and holds it for ransom, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and FBI warn. Called Cryptolocker, the program locks all of a computer’s data. In order to unlock the data, the user must pay a ransom demand sent by email to be paid […]
