Antivirus maker causes huge worldwide computer outage
You may have heard about the worldwide outage of many large services providers, airlines, and many other businesses and we wanted to give you more information about this outage. The outage was caused by a bad update by an antivirus…
In the check-out line buying gift cards? Read on to avoid a scam.
If you’re in the checkout line with a gift card (or several) in your hand, ask yourself: is the gift card you’re buying for a gift? Or is someone on the phone with you as you’re checking out telling you…
Know Your Risk. Protect Your Money.
You now have free access to your weekly credit report!
The three national credit reporting agencies — Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion — have permanently extended a program that lets you check your credit report at each of the agencies once a week for free. Visit AnnualCreditReport.com (Save this link as a…
The best way to protect your information from scammers? Recognize a phishing scam.
Scammers know how valuable your personal and financial information is — and they’ll do or say almost anything to get it. What can you do to keep it safe? The best way to protect your info from scammers is to…
New Amazon Prime fake email
Fake Amazon Prime email abuses LinkedIn’s URL shortener Posted: February 24, 2023 by Christopher Boyd on Malwarebytes website Click here for the entire story. Over the last few days, scammers have been sending out phishing mails that disguise bogus URLs with something called…
Fake text bank fraud alerts
Text Message Scams Scammers are sending text messages with phony fraud alerts (debit card fraud alerts also) stating there has been a request to withdraw or transfer a large amount of money from your bank account. These texts may appear…