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ES&S admits a handful of systems were shipped with PCAnywhere tool A US voting machine manufacturer has admitted some of its systems sold in the early 2000s had a remote access tool installed.…

The FTC has been battling tech support scams for years, especially ones targeting older citizens who are seen by fraudsters everywhere as susceptible to these cons.

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

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Monday that operators of a nationwide computer repair scam have been banned from the tech support business as...

The latest variants of tech support scams targeting Apple users have done away with the usual visually prominent error messages. Instead, they open the potential victims’ default communication or...

Microsoft is warning of a wave of phishing campaigns pushing tech support scams via malicious links to phony Amazon, Alibaba and LinkedIn web pages.


The FTC, along with federal, state and international law enforcement partners, announced Operation Tech Trap, a nationwide and international crackdown on tech support scams that trick consumers...

