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Twitter Security Alert a False Alarm? Reset Your Password Anyway

November 12, 2014

Article, General Consumer, Mobile Services, Technology

Was your Twitter account hacked last night? Automatic password resets were reported by Twitter users across the web last week. I woke up on Thursday morning to this email in my inbox: "Twitter believes that...

Is Your Money Safe? US Banks Hacked: Wells Fargo, Bank of America, U.S. Bank, Chase and Citigroup

Miranda Perry

September 27, 2014

Article, Credit Report, Financial Services, General Consumer, Money

A silent war is being waged between suspected Middle Eastern hackers and major US banks. In recent days, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, U.S. Bank, JP Morgan Chase and Citigroup have all been targeted by aggressi...

Diablo 3 Hacks and How-to Create Secure Passwords

Team Scambook

June 12, 2014

Article, Featured, General Consumer, Technology, Video

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Online Security Threats: Never Fun And Games

Stan Park

June 4, 2014

Article, General Consumer, Technology

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If you're not quite in tune with all the latest and greatest news coming out of the vastly lucrative gaming community, the term "Diablo III" may have about as much effect on your daily life as briefly making ey...

Identity Theft Alert: Adobe Privacy Breach was 3 Times Worse than Estimated

Christina Newhall

November 4, 2013

Article, Technology

A few weeks ago, Adobe – the company behind Photoshop, Acrobat, Illustrator, and other Creative Cloud software solutions – announced that it had been the target of a large-scale private data breach. According t...

IP Camera Security: 4 Tips to Keep Hackers From Spying on Your Home Videos

Christina Newhall

September 12, 2013

Article, Technology

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Today, many consumers use cameras to keep an eye on their home, office, their pet or even their children by checking a live Internet video stream. Internet Protocol cameras (or IP cameras) have become very affo...

4 Tips That Explain How To Avoid Phishing Scams and Email Spam

Christina Newhall

September 4, 2013

Article, Technology

How can you tell if an email is real or a scam? Today, both phishing scams and annoying spam messages rely on a technique called "spoofing" to fake their sender information. This means an email might say it's f...

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Everything You Need to Know About Keeping Info Secure on Public WiFi

Sean Boulger

June 13, 2013

Article, Technology

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Do you love public wireless Internet? Many of us rely on public WiFi at coffee shops, universities, and libraries to get our work done. But how can you protect your personal information on public WiFi? Unless y...

A color photo of the Facebook login page.

Dangerous Facebook Trojan Virus Can Empty Your Bank Account

Sean Boulger

June 7, 2013

Article, Technology

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Use Facebook on a Windows computer? Watch out for a dangerous Trojan virus that can empty your bank account. An old malware cyber threat known as "Zeus" has resurfaced on social media to target Facebook users w...

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Facebook Unveils Brand New Security Feature: Trusted Contacts

Sean Boulger

May 3, 2013

Article, Technology

Are you ready to boost your Facebook security? Today, we share more private information online than ever before. Try counting the number of websites, services, and/or online stores that have access to your pers...

Daily Deals Site LivingSocial Hacked, Exposing 50 Million Customers’ Private Info

Sean Boulger

May 1, 2013

Article, Consumer, General Consumer

Popular daily deal site LivingSocial is the latest in a long series of web-based services to undergo massive cyberattacks over the course of the last few months. Just last week, the service was hacked, and the ...

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