Everything I.T.

This is a fake email from Microsoft. It's a phishing email. Always take note of the sender's email address, and never respond or click anything unless you KNOW it's a valid address and a VALID DOMAIN as well.

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Do you ever click a link in Google search results, and get a malware page? Do you want to report it? Here is where... https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsi/report_badware/

Apple will be moving AWAY from Intel CPUs and designing their own. (ANOTHER proprietary hardware piece you will have to buy straight from Apple, meaning 3rd party techs will again not be able to repair Apple PCs, you will need to go to Apple only) The new chips will be called "Apple Silicon" ...they will come out by the end of the year this year supposedly. Apple's Johny Srouji, head of the company's chip design, said Apple's CPUs are ["often"] more powerful than PC laptops.... (which is a very non-commital advertising statement if you ask me!) " Here's a couple articles on Tom's Hardware: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/apple-arm-intel-transition https://www.tomshardware.com//report-apple-contracting-tsm

THIS NOTIFICATION OF MALICIOUS ACTIVITY COMES FROM COURTESY OF LIFELOCK A highly coordinated attack impacts verified Twitter accounts of the world’s most famous people and companies. What is Happening?... On July 15, 2020, several verified Twitter accounts of famous people and companies were taken over in a security breach, including Apple, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Barack Obama and others. Hackers then published tweets from these accounts soliciting donations via Bitcoin. For example, one tweet read: We are giving back to our community. We support Bitcoin and we believe you should too. All Bitcoin sent to our address below will be sent back to you doubled. Within the first three hours of the attack, people were deceived into sending more than $118,000 to the scammers. Bitcoin is a popular cryptocurrency used by scammers because it is virtually impossible to recover the lost funds. Twitter has stated that verified accounts will be unable to tweet until the issue is resolved and have also disabled some account features such as password reset requests. What Should You Do? 1. This incident is an example of an account takeover. Information from these types of hacks could end up for sale on the dark web. Your plan includes Dark Web Monitoring of email addresses, financial accounts, and more. Log in to your Member Portal to complete your profile so we can notify you if we find your personal information on the dark web. 2. Help protect your online accounts by creating strong complicated passwords that are hard to crack. Use a combination of 10 numbers, upper and lowercase and symbols or consider using a password manager. 3. Be wary of online requests involving cryptocurrency. If you fall victim to these types of scams, the funds you provide may be impossible to recover. THANKS FOR READING, PLEASE SHARE

some Obama phones to stay away from!

California residents have a new protection under the new California Privacy Protection law that goes into effect on July 1st. If you were of the 'litigious" type, it could possibly net you some cash... Read about the new law here: https://www.techrepublic.com//ccpa-how-to-prepare-for-cal/

After getting an email for "Trumpcare" ..."I, myself" decided to look into it and see if there was in fact such a thing...mostly for my daughter who needs a secondary health insurance badly right now... But it turned out to be a phishing email, (the email address has a .nl top level domain, which is "Netherlands" ...and the website had a ".me" top level domain, which is Mexico) ...but not to be discouraged by 1 phishing email, I decided to do some searching. Come to find ou...t, there are HUNDREDS of Trumpcare ads on the internet, ...all useless. Read this article for more information: https://www.axios.com/trumpcare-health-plans-short-term-cov

Here is a really aweome video I ran across that shows what you can do with some old laptops that don't work anymore...very cool! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLP_L7Mgz6M

It sounds like "Scattered Canary" is the new "Anonoymous" (hacking group?) This is some scary info...especially if you read the history of the group going back to 2010 in the linked PDF file... https://www.techrepublic.com//8-states-targeted-in-cares-a

A little update on the current hacking situation, which is out of control with covid-19 at hand...get educated https://www.everythingit.us/hacking-at-an-all-time-high-zo/

The IRS Inspector General now has a webpage dedictated to covid-19 stimulus payment scams. If you have any questions or need to report something, go here: https://www.treasury.gov/tigta/coronavirus.shtml

Learn how to secure your ZOOM conference from hackers. Read this PDF whitepaper: https://www.techrepublic.com//how-to-secure-your-zoom-con/