Scarewareis a type of malware that uses social engineering to scare, shock, or cause a victim anxiety. The person is then manipulated into purchasing software they do not need. Scareware often tells the victim
Urgent business:Phishers love to use urgency to rush you through bad decisions. Whether they’re offering a temporary deal that’s too good to be true, or threatening to close your account unless youact now, their aim is to scare you into disclosing your personal info ASAP. ...
What is spam? Spam messages, phone spam & email spam are a serious threat to consumers. Learn about the types of spam & how you can stop spammers from winning.
Anyone who has your phone number or email address can send you anything, and say anything. That doesn’t make it true! Technically, this previous group falls under Social Engineering. Which is a fancy way of saying the crook is trying to scare or goad you into doing something unwise. It...
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Vishing (voice phishing) is a form of attack that attempts to trick victims into giving up sensitive personal information over the phone.
A quote from an "interview" with me (I'll explain the scare quotes in a minute) went viral on the Internet recently: We can't make women look at the world through hacker eyes and start Facebook because they haven't been hacking for the past 10 years. ...
It is common to characterise phenomenal consciousness as what it is like to be in a mental state. This paper argues that the ‘what-it’s-like
It does say that the virus causes the computer to reboot by crashing the lsass.exe process. Subsequent error messages mention this legitimate process as having failed. There is NO need to remove lsass.exe it is a vital system file in a networked computer. See also: Link Marshall has a ...
An overengineered config to scare off beginners. A minimalistic config for scared beginners. A nixos wiki page that spells out the format of flake.nix. Official documentation that nobody reads. Some great videos on general nixOS tooling and hackery. A couple flake configs that I may have sh...