Tag: scareware

“We’ve been watching your browsing and…” begins yet another ransomware email. The ones I receive allege that they have my password from a porn site (I’ve never visited one), they’ve compromised my router and seen the porn I watch (again, I don’t), and that they know the password for my email server (I’ve never used […]

I recently took on a computer forensics consulting project. A state agency was renting a small office building for the supervisors of a large construction project. They reported that an intruder had entered the building over a weekend and left a mess which included locking up one of their computers. They found the computer with […]