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Users Warned to Watch for New (And Convincing) PayPal Scam
I think it would be fair to say that a pretty solid number of people now are familiar with the usual variety of scams. (PayPal, Amazon, banking, etc.) – A scam email, for example, is usually pretty easy to identify if not for the horrifically poor grammar generally used throughout…
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Microsoft Confirms New ‘Y2K22’ Email Bug
I daresay that there are more than a few of you who remember the technological hysteria we saw when we were approaching the new millennium. Known as ‘Y2K’, for those of you who were too young to recall, it was basically a general fear that computer systems that were not…
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UK Consumers Warned of Vehicle Tax Email Scam!
It’s a sad reality that there are many individuals and organisations out there that are absolutely determined if not to steal your money, then to at least learn as much information about you that you’re willing to give away freely. – Of these, one of the most common tactics is…
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NHS Issues Warning Over Scam COVID-19 Vaccination Emails
With COVID-19 vaccinations currently being rolled out across the UK, it’s entirely understandable that many people are more than a little anxious to get their jab. It seems, however, that scammers are attempting to tap into this fear as following an official Twitter post by the NHS, they have issued…
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Facebook Documents Show They Considered Selling Our Data
Facebook Considered Selling Our Data Earlier this week you may have noticed reports about sensitive documents appertaining to Facebook being seized the UK Parliament. It was certainly a very strange one. Particularly since that while Parliament has these powers, they do not often choose to exercise them. Given Mark Zuckerberg’s refusal…
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SwiftKey Has Been Leaking Users Emails
SwiftKey is a popular replacement for your standard phone keyboard, giving you an alternative to the standard keyboard you’ve become used to. The SwiftKey keyboard comes with a syncing feature, giving you the ability to keep track of your words and phrases, giving you better predictions for your messages but…
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Yahoo Mail Went Down And All They Got Was A Single Tweet
In this day and age, keeping your customers up to date is as important as getting them on board in the first place. Reports started circulating yesterday that Yahoo users weren’t able to access their email accounts, and all they got for their troubles was a single tweet. Originally reported…
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The Privacy Question Of Windows 10
Windows 10 is out as of today (Wednesday 29th July 2015) and on the surface is a major improvement over the much maligned Windows 8. This should be excellent news for consumers, which it is to a large extent, but what is lurking under the hood in terms of privacy?…
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The U.S. Can Still Legally Access Your Old Emails
Microsoft is in an ongoing battle with the U.S. government about handing over emails and they refuse to give up. The case contains two issues, emails stored abroad and old emails. What many people don’t know is that it was written in the Electronics Communication Privacy Act back in 1986…
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Jeb Bush Purposely Publishes Private E-Mails On His Website
Potential Republican Presidential Candidate Jeb Bush, brother of George W. Bush, has done something really quite damaging. In the spirit of “transparency”, Bush thought it would be a good idea to essentially leak the social security numbers and other private details of thousands of people online. Obviously he didn’t think of…
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AMD Gaming Evolved App Powered by Raptr Was Hacked
There isn’t long between the high-profile hacks these days and this week starts out pretty bad for the AMD Gaming Evolved App powered by Raptr. The service has sent out emails to users informing them about the hack and urges them to change their passwords. There shouldn’t be any direct…
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Sony Tries to Stop Email Leaks with DMCA Claims
There are always some people that become citizen journalists when the mainstream media fails to pick up on something or cover it as deeply as they would like, and the musician Val Broeksmit is one of them. Not satisfied with the media coverage, he started to tweet (@BikiniRobotArmy) small excerpts from…
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Daimler Allows Employees to Delete all Incoming Emails When on Vacation
Car manufacturer Daimler are trying to make their employee’s holidays a little more stress-free. They’ve opted in the ability to remove the general “out of office reply” for a much simpler task – deleting every incoming email throughout the whole duration of their leave. The program is adequately named their “Mail…
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Microsoft Refuse to Give Emails Despite Court Order
Microsoft executives have obviously been listening to too much N.W.A (NSFW – some bad language) recently. Although ordered by the federal court, they are refusing to hand over overseas-held email data to the feds. Microsoft have stated that they will continue to hold on to this information as it waits for…
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Silk Road Bitcoin Buyers Identities Exposed Thanks to U.S. Marshal Error
The U.S. Marshals handling the private bidding for the recently seized $18 million worth of Bitcoins have made an unfortunate showing in technological prowess, or lack thereof. Mass emails are one of the easiest ways to contact multiple clients directly at once, thankfully for those who are handling sensitive and…
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