Online Backup v Online Storage
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RANSOMWARE: Common Bad Practices Are Your Biggest Threat
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Domain Scam – Data Assortment Ireland
Here’s another scam which surfaced in January of this year. This one is very similar to the Internet Register Ireland scam. Note the discreet advertisement payment of €958 which it seems is “valid for the next three years”. You should promptly assort this data into your bin!
CryptoLocker Ransomware. Your Files held to Ransom!
If you are unlucky enough to have been hit by the CryptoLocker ransomware virus, I’m afraid you’re not going to receive any solace from this article. In a nutshell, this software encrypts all office related documents and in some cases images on your desktop pc or laptop. Worse again, if you’re connected to an office […]
Bank of Ireland Phishing Scam
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Fake Indian Computer Repairs Claiming to be from Microsoft – www.onlinepccare.com [SCAM]
The scam: Person of Indian extraction calls a home user claiming to be from Microsoft declaring that the users pc is infected, slow, sending out spam, and basically needs to be repaired. They then proceed very forcefully to try and direct the user to a website where they will remote on to their computer and […]
Irish Revenue Phishing Scam
The other day I wrote an article to explain what the term Phishing meant. Somewhere in the middle of the piece I figured that it would be a good idea to use an example of a phishing mail that I myself have received in the past. Having received hundreds maybe thousands, I indexed through over […]
Phishing – Don’t Become Cyber Bait
What is it? Phishing is the act of sending a fraudulent mail to someone under the disguise of a legitimate name or organisation. The intention is to dupe the recipient of the mail into believing they are accessing a bonifide website when they are in fact unintentionally handing over private and confidential information to […]
SEO Scam – Marc Shneider
The scams section of the blog is growing fast! Here’s another spam, scam or as I call it ‘mailware’ to add to the list. You’ll most likely see variations of the mail I received (see below). See scam mail below dotted line. —————————————————————————————————————————- Did you receive the e-mail which I sent to you recently (copied here-below)? Please confirm since I […]
Chinese Intellectual Property Scam on Domain Names
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