In a comment on Reddit this week, user “moeburn” raised the possibility of new malware circulating for Smart TVs: My sister got a virus on her TV. A VIRUS ON HER GODDAMN TV. It was an LG Smart TV with a built in web browser, and she managed to get a DNS Hijacker that would […]
An emoji is worth a thousand words, or at least it is when you’re using WhatsApp. We’ve gotten used to expressing ourselves by using these colorful characters – be they smiley faces, grinning turds, or even animals – that it is strange to imagine ever communicating without them. In fact, a recent survey by Swiftkey […]
Every morning, without fail, you log onto your computer and check your emails, read the news, and have a look at your social media accounts. While you do this it is likely that you’ll come across a few pop-up advertisements which you quickly close as they do little more than annoy you. However, it’s likely […]
Cybercrime takes many forms, but one of the more insidious and perhaps less obvious manifestations is warranty fraud. This scheme involves con artists who assume the identity of a consumer, complain that a given product has ceased to operate as expected, and demand that the retailer replace the article in question. Such claims turn into a […]
Virtually every aspect of cybercrime has been made into a service or plug-and-play product. That includes dating scams — among the oldest and most common of online swindles. Recently, I had a chance to review a package of dating scam emails, instructions, pictures, videos and love letter templates that are sold to scammers in the underground, […]
Neither personal information nor fingerprints have been safe from cybercriminals in the past year and, as the year comes to a close, one thing is for sure – the more devices that we have, the more security we need. Throughout the course of the year, cybercriminals have shown that they are capable of discovering and, […]
