Hyper-realistic phishing and ransomware schemes
A spate of hyper-realistic phishing and ransomware schemes masquerade as customers. Typically, targets get an email from a customer in their database. The…
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Phishing attacks get more sophisticated
Click a link. Download a file. And that’s where the trouble begins. Phishing attacks by email or social media attempt to lure you into revealing a…
Mac: The missing ‘Save As’ found
In Mac’s Text Edit and other apps, menus no longer feature the ‘Save As’ option on the File menu. Annoying. However, you can bring it back for one use or…
Shoplifting 2019: Low risk, high reward
According to the National Association for Shoplifting Prevention (NASP), about 27 million people — 10% of the U.S. population — steal more than $13…
How to defy shoplifters
Although it’s not possible to completely eradicate theft, there are ways to resist and deter shoplifters in stores large and small. According to the…
From Beanie Babies to billions
In the early 1960s, Ty Warner dropped out of Kalamazoo College in Michigan and moved to California to become an actor. Soon he was a grocery store clerk,…
Google Glass finds space in industry
Technicians in aerospace, warehousing and even training, often need both hands free while they reference printed materials or communicate with others. And…
Don’t use these iPhone PINs
Here are the most common PINs. More than 25 percent of hacked iPhones use these, according to Cult of Mac. 1234 1111 0000 1212 7777 1004 2000 4444 2222…
Beware these email phishing attempts
Seen lately in the wild are these phishing attempts: * Funny and fake: The director of the FBI needs your help for wiretapping the Internet! Evidently…
The tiny get-rich-quick Idea that worked big time
While growing up in the tiny country town of Cricklade in north Wiltshire, England, Alex Tew was known as a maverick entrepreneur. At the age of eight, he…