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Microsoft: Tech support scams rose by 24% in 2017, costing some victims thousands of dollars

2018-04-23 16:43

Social engineering scams make even the best security solutions useless, Microsoft said. It wants industry-wide collaboration to solve the problem.

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https://www.techrepublic.com/article/microsoft-tech-support-scams-rose-by-24-in-2017-costing-some-victims-thousands-of-dollars/#ftag=RSS56d97e7

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