At PC Easy Care, our employees use a software called Sococo as a tool for communication as well as remote assistance. Recently, a similar application, Team Viewer, has been victim to a significant amount of attacks by hackers who have stolen the account details from users through third-party data banks (BBC, 2016).
President of Team Viewer Alex...
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Fake Anti-Viruses: Preventing and Fighting these Scams
Continuing along the theme of IT scams, this post will discuss fake anti-viruses and how these scams can be prevented. Chances are that you have encountered this type of scam at some point during online personal and or professional business transactions. Fake anti-viruses come in the form of pestering popups, warning you that if you don’t...
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Phishing Scams: Avoid them by becoming Data Smart
In this information age, data is increasingly seen as a valuable commodity. Last week we discussed scamming in the context of domains. This post will discuss phishing scams and how to avoid/prevent them.
Phishing scams generally come in the form of e-mails pretending to be legitimate companies or organizations. These fraudulent enterprises will ask you for...
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Chinese Domain Scams and Why You Should Care
If you are a business owner chances are some part of your business is online. In recent years, companies in Asia have tried to take advantage of business owners claiming risks to their online presence. Usually they claim that there is some risk to your domain being registered by a third party Asian company. For...
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