While you work from home, hackers are doing the same thing; targeting people who might be using their company laptop. It’s a nasty scam but is often successful. “What they do is they look for bad situations to exploit. This virus (coronavirus) is a perfect opportunity,” says retired FBI Special Agent Scott Augenbaum. “Almost everybody is home. Everybody is online…
As if you didn’t already have enough to worry about, there’s this: Your computer may be mining for bitcoin without your permission or knowledge. If this information makes you scratch your head and think how none of that makes sense, you are not alone. Research shows that instances, where computers of random people are hijacked to mine for bitcoins without…
Hundreds of Twitter and Facebook users had their personal information accessed or stolen by malicious apps they had downloaded and installed on their smartphones. Names, usernames, gender and email addresses are thought to be in the hands of app developers who gained access to those accounts after users signed in using their Facebook login credentials. According to Facebook and Twitter,…
