What, you may well be asking, is 'smishing'? Well, if you use texting you should read this article explaining all. Robo calls, and hackers and smackers, uh, smishers, are becoming more prevalent. Be alert and read the article. It is quite illuminating.
Jim Hamm
If you store anything in Apple's iCloud, you should read the following article. Just to be on the safe side, after reading the article, I set up a two-factor authentication for my iCloud account.
Will be 'interesting' (if that's the right word) to see how this threat turns out.
http://www.computerworld.com/article/3184030/security/hackers-demand-150k-ransom-threaten-to-wipe-millions-of-apple-devices.html?
Jim Hamm
Scan the info that applies to you: "Surprising Ways Hackers Can Steal Your Identity" http://www.lifelock.com/education/crimes/surprising-ways-hackers-can-steal-your-identity
If you're a Facebook fan you'll want to look at this info: http://www.lifelock.com/education/alerts/the-latest-scam/malicious-tagging-on-facebook/
Keeping informed and being careful are simply logical things to do!
There's a new hacker attempt going around, according to John Carter. Here's what he saw from the Quarantine Manager. Click on the screenshot to enlarge, then click off in the black background to come back to this normal view.
Here's the header of the email:
"Here is a tip that might speed up your web browsing on an iPhone or iPad: turn off Javascript. I just did it, and will see if it impacts my web browsing one way or the other. I've disabled Javascript on all my computers and haven't missed it at all. Javascript is a great medium (access point) for malware hackers to get into your computer," declares Jim Hamm.
This shocking bit of news comes from Jim Hamm who's been following the hacking issue he wrote about. See this. Scroll down to yesterday's posting on the hacking incident.