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- How Hackers Use Number Recycling to Attack Your Online Privacyhistorical
When you get new mobile phones for your employees or yourself, there are many things to consider: plans, hardware, and cost. Number recycling is a common practice among service pro…
- A Guide on Security Your Data and Online Privacy in Easy Wayhistorical
Digital media and privacy on the Internet Digital media provide an easy, efficient and inexpensive way to share information, therefore have become an indispensable part of the dail…
- Geek Squad scam 2021 – how to identify and stay safe
Cybercriminals often use the service subscription theme to bait users. These swindles are particularly effective when they mention certain amounts of money being withdrawn from one…
- ColdLock ransomware: ransom.msil.coldlock.ypae-a virus decryptor and removalhistorical
Breaking cybersecurity news is the release of a new ransomware species used in targeted attacks against organizations. It’s called ColdLock, which is a term coined by researchers w…
- How to remove Soap2Day virus in Chrome, Firefox, IE
Freebies are awesome, aren’t they? True, but when interacting with some Internet resources that promise the moon and don’t charge a penny, users are better off learning to separate…
- Remove Carlbendergogo virus from Chrome, Firefox, Edge [Jan 2020 upd]historical
Fraudulent online activities and browser hijacking go hand in hand. Scammers are heavily cashing in on this combo of social engineering and malware because it gets users on the hoo…
- Remove DigitsPro email scam
Cybercrime doesn’t necessarily come down to creating and distributing super-complex malware that makes a mess of users’ computers or mobile devices. It’s also about social engineer…
- Remove WebHelper virus – solve high CPU usage process issue
They say there’s no such thing as a free lunch. Among other things, this holds true for lots of computer-related scenarios where users catch malicious code when trying to get freeb…
- Remove “ChaosCC hacker group” email scam
Ever heard of the Chaos Computer Club, an association of hacktivists with German roots? Unless you are a security geek, you probably haven’t. A recent wave of email scams, though, …
- Remove en.savefrom.net virus from Chrome, Firefox, IE
Proper user experience is hard to provide and amazingly easy to deteriorate. There are online entities like en.savefrom.net that somehow manage to do both. One the one hand, the se…