by The Same Day Computer Team | Jan 22, 2019 | Spyware, Technology, Uncategorized
4: Search Engine Phishing or Malvertising These are cleverly disguised ads that offer something great, like a vacation. When you click on the ad, you are directed to a site that requires all of your information. 5: Pharming This is when hackers take a popular site,...
by The Same Day Computer Team | Jan 21, 2019 | Spyware, Technology, Uncategorized
2: Spear Phishing As the name suggested, this is a targeted email focused specifically on you or your organization. 3: Smishing or SM Phishing These are phishing text messages or phone calls. Usually text messages. These usually have a link in them that hackers...
by The Same Day Computer Team | Jan 16, 2019 | Spyware, Technology, Uncategorized
We have told you about GrandCrab before. It’s the virus that encrypts your entire computer then asks for a ransom to un-encrypt it. What could be worse? Hackers have added Vidar as an attachment. Vidar downloads your data before initiating GrandCrab to...
by The Same Day Computer Team | Jan 4, 2019 | Spyware, Technology, Uncategorized
We have all done it. We click on something that looks interesting and get a screen that starts talking to us or it says that your computer is infected. There’s a phone number to call and you can’t move off of the page, you can’t do anything! The...
by The Same Day Computer Team | Dec 21, 2018 | Spyware, Technology, Uncategorized
Dell acknowledges that on November 9th 2018 they detected unauthorized users in their system. These ‘users’ attempted to get the names, email address, passwords and other customer information while they were logged in. Dell says that they were...
by The Same Day Computer Team | Dec 20, 2018 | Spyware, Technology, Uncategorized
The App store or Google Play are always the best place to download new apps, some malicious ones still sneak in. They are eventually found and taken out but that doesn’t help those that have already downloaded them. Latest Bad Apps: Power Manager Astro Plus...
