13 in 30 minutes. Yes, in 30 minutes of driving around a small town in Indiana my cell phone found 13 businesses still using far outdated WIFI security protocols that have, for many years, been easily cracked by hackers in 30 minutes or less. This is 2019 folks – this should not be happening! As …
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Cyber bad guys have stolen 143 million credit records in the recent hacking scandal at big-three credit bureau Equifax. At this point you have to assume that the bad guys have highly personal information that they can use to trick you. You need to watch out for the following things: Phishing emails that claim …
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Heads-up! The IRS is warning against a new phishing scam that tries to make you download an FBI questionnaire. But if you click the link, your computer will be infected with ransomware instead. The scam email uses the emblems of both the IRS and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Remember that the IRS does not …
If you are like me, you probably thought most cyber scams came through email or phone calls. Well, the scammers have been moving to less obvious ways to find their victims. Texting. The Cyber Bad guys are targeting you through your smartphone more and more. They send texts that trick you into doing something that …
Here is how you get malware/viruses on your computer and have your passwords stolen(excerpt from malwarebytes.org): Just For Men website serves malware Posted September 20, 2016 by Jérôme Segura “The website for Just For Men, a company that sells various products for men as its name implies, was serving malware to its visitors. Our automated …
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Just a quick note on what my favorite Anti-Malware / Anti-Virus program is and how to get it. MalwareBytes AntiMalware has been my Go-To for many years and still ranks #1 in my opinion. No other well advertised anti-virus program cleans things up and finds the garbage that needs to go as well as MBAM. …
Mission: To determine the current level of cyber security in the Wabash Valley between Terre Haute and Vincennes Indiana. So when I began planning to investigate the state of cyber security in the Wabash Valley I thought that a few small businesses may have an insecure wireless router and possibly a small town government office …
In the world of small business, the thought of Cyber Security, protecting customer data and monitoring log files for hacker activity usually takes a backseat to the daily grind of selling more product, the next advertising piece, making payroll, tax issues, employee problems, etc. Who has time for it, right? One group does have time …
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If you’re like me you want to know all the FREE ways to make things work better BEFORE paying anyone to fix it, right? Well now I want to share the best FREE tools AND correct processes I’ve found and have used for years to get the job done when removing viruses / malware and …
Now that you have went through this initial process, the rest of the tools will be a piece of cake so I won’t bore you with the exact how-to’s. Just keep in mind that for many of the tools listed you may have to manually add a check to some of the ‘issues’ or malware they find, …