houlder surfing is probably the easiest security vulnerability to overcome, except to the companies selling solutions for it. In fact, there has been a lively debate CSO Online over whether those who buy a solution might not be intelligent enough to use digital tools.
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Not all scams take money from you. One of the biggest security scams is the belief that once you have joined a Meta platform, it is impossible to leave. The news the Meta is working with a government contractor to make facial recognition tech for ICE agents has accelerated interest in how to escape Meta Hell. The question is, how?
Migration from Meta platforms is no longer a niche trend. Through 2025 and 2026 there is a sustained structural shift in the social media. Just consider the explosive growth of Bluesky, which closed 2025 with over 41.4 million registered users, a 60% year-over-year increase, with daily active users climbing past 4.5 million. That represents real growth from status into mainstream viability.
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Many shady practices on the internet are scams, but some seem "scammy." Cyber Protection Magazine came across one such operation.
While ordering food on Grubhub recently, a pop-up appeared telling us we “earned a reward!” Clicking on the link it offered a $20 rebate on my next purchase. Sounds good, doesn’t it? Not really.
Note: All the companies involved in this transaction will be named in this article. All were contacted for comment. Only Grubhub responded with a request for additional information and then went silent.
Even though the transaction was occurring within the Grubhub mobile app, the pop-up was from an organization called Cashback-Now. The company name is relatively common for several companies, all apparently running the same type of business. In this case the URL is cashback-now.com.
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The Superbowl is a few days away, the Winter Olympics starts in February and the Summer Olympics is not far………more...
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A multiphase scam is growing in the US, draining retirement accounts of US citizens, according to the FBI’s Internet Crime………more...
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You’ve done this many times. Checking your email you find a ton of spam, especially from this one organization or person. You are finally tired of it. You search the email for the “unsubscribe” link, buried somewhere on the bottom, and are about to click it.
STOP!
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Dealing with wonky printers is a universal frustration. According to Gartner studies, printers are by far the biggest technology problem, racking up 50 percent of all technical support calls worldwide. And that makes them a very profitable scam.
Here’s how it works. You’re sitting at home and want to print out a bill, letter, or other document and the printer hangs up. The little wheel is just spinning and spinning. After multiple tries you decide to call tech support to fix the problem. After 2 hours of sitting listening to the same song, interrupted by the recorded voice telling you your “call is important,” you start surfing for some sort of help. Your results show three or four sites for printer support and a free chat service.
You click one of them, still waiting on your phone for help, and immediately get someone in the chatbot who is very helpful and asks if they can be connected to your computer to see what the problem is. In the hope of being freed from frustration you click on a link and suddenly your “savior” is moving around your computer downloading “the latest printer driver.” It is only much later that you find he has found your banking information and has sucked your account dry.
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Just when you thought the political fundraising texts were done, you get this screamer on your phone… Now that readsmore
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It is Medicare scam season when Medicare patients can change their insurance plan for the new year, and that means………more...
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