Category: Scams and Security
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Vaccine Disinformation Dirty Tricks: Links to their buddy.
Websites love links! They thrive on them! Websites that do not have links on their webpage will almost always score very low on Google. The thing about creating links on a website is that you never accidentally create one. You always have to make the choice of what kind of link you are going to…
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Scams and Disinformation Same thing!
Scams target your bank account, Disinformation targets your culture. So over the past year, I have been hearing a lot of people talking about COVID-19 Vaccines. They often say “Do your research”. but what they really mean is to watch this Youtube video. They are often armed with catchy memes that claim this is a…
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New iOS scam makes you think you have been hacked
Hey folk! I am back with another scam alert. This New iOS scam makes you think that malware has been installed on your iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch and they do so by sending notifications from your device without actually hacking it. Wait….! what? How does that work? Let me explain how the iOS scam…
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Is your Macbook overheating?
My Macbook is overheating what can I do about it? This is a common question I get with customers about their Macbooks. This post will help you decide if your Macbook needs to be fixed or you just need to change some settings. What do you mean overheating? I hear the word overheating. but is…
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Amazon Phone Scam!
So today while I was repairing a few iPhones when my personal phone rang. From there was an automated voice telling me that My Amazon Prime subscription was going to be renewed! THIS IS A SCAM I study scams so I’m fully aware of this scam. But I pressed “1” anyway to see if they…
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Keynote tips before a presentation
In a previous post about Keynote, I had mentioned that this is one of the software packages I used to support while working at Applecare in California. In the five years of answering panicked calls from customers who had problems with Keynote, I have a few tips. That will not only reduce your stress but…
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Major OSX Security Update! Update Now!
Apple Fixes a huge security flaw but you need to update! On Monday, April 26 Apple released a major security update for OSX! This update will address a flaw in Apples OSX security that is actively being exploited by hackers and cybercriminals. This means it is not a theory! Someone is using the exploit to…
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Help Lithgow Avoid Email Scams: The Inheritance Lawyer
Like most days I love to get up make breakfast sit in my backyard and breath in the clean blue mountains air. I will often drink my coffee while I look at my email. It’s a good way to start my day. But today I noted that I’m getting more email scams than normal. I…
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The Facebook Data Breach! Get ready for scams!
In 2019 Facebook had a data leak where the personal information of 500 million people was extracted by hackers. The problem is that now that the hackers have the information they wanted they have recently made the rest of the info public on the dark web. This means that anyone who can access the dark…