Let me make this absolutely crystal, freakin’ clear—tech support people don’t need your password. Folks, I’ve been in tech support and believe me, if we need to get into your account for some reason, we can. We can have your password reset ourselves. We can use system tools to manage your accounts. We have lot’s [...]
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Tech Support Doesn’t Need Your Password (and shouldn’t ask for it)
Filed Under: From Future Shop, Internet Life, Technology Tagged With: Online scams, online security, phishing scams
No one, not a single one of us, is immune to a phishing scam
We geeks like to laugh and shake our heads at n00bs who fall for phishing scams of one sort or another. We chastise out less-geeky partners and implore them to use better passwords. All the while we, the geekerati, feel smuggly immune. Yeah, reality check, we aren’t immune in the least little bit. All it [...]
Filed Under: Internet Life, Social Media Tagged With: online security, phishing, Social Media
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