by Matt Ingram | Oct 24, 2016 | News
This is a scam targeting Windows 8 and Windows 10 PCs One of the most recent support call scams involves Microsoft’s Security Essentials, the free antivirus solution that the company is offering to users of Windows 7 or older Windows versions. The company published a...
by Matt Ingram | Oct 21, 2016 | News
Dyn DNS provider suffers major DDoS attack A DDoS attack on Dyn, a major upstream DNS provider, has shut down a large chunk of the Internet for about two hours, rendering millions of sites inaccessible. On the list of websites users reported as down, we list a few...
by Matt Ingram | Oct 15, 2016 | News
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed a legal complaint against five companies, four in the US and one from India, and three individuals for running a so-called “tech support scam” scheme. The complaint, which is embedded at the end of this...
by Matt Ingram | Oct 11, 2016 | News
The company says it’s just working to make the feature better, but angry users ready to ditch the beleaguered email service don’t buy it. Yahoo has faced a spate of security bombshells regarding its email service in the past few weeks, prompting some users...
