Technical Difficulties

11/20/2024

Beware of money requests coming to you through Paypal! This email legitimately came via Paypal's money request service. What's the scam you ask? Look at what's circled in the picture. That is a note placed there by the entity that initiated the request. What you may not realize is that the "PayPal" phone number listed there is BOGUS. This threat actor is attempting to panic you into calling the FAKE "Paypal" number at which point they will likely use social engineering phishing techniques to steal data/money from YOU. Always get phone numbers direct from and organizations website.

06/26/2024

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/26/how-the-kaspersky-ban-will-hit-resellers-in-the-us/

"It's just a lot of time lost for nothing," a U.S.-based Kaspersky reseller told TechCrunch.

05/05/2021

03/31/2021

Avi Fleischer of Technical Difficulties celebrated as a "Champion of Backup Culture" by Backblaze.

Read the article here:

This World Backup Day, read about some of the top Backblaze referrers inspiring other people to back up their data.

01/26/2021

Verizon FIOS is experiencing widespread internet issues across multiple states.

12/14/2020

Google users are currently experiencing issues around the world, with users unable to access Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive, and possibly other Google services.

11/25/2020

Passwords exposed for almost 50,000 vulnerable Fortinet VPNs

A hacker has now leaked the credentials of almost 50,000 Fortinet SSL VPNs vulnerable to CVE-2018-13379. Exploits for these VPNs had been posted over the weekend on hacker forums, as reported by BleepingComputer.

11/24/2020

Over 300K Spotify accounts hacked in credential stuffing attack

Hackers have been attempting to gain access to Spotify accounts using a database of 380 million records with login credentials and personal information collected from various sources.

11/17/2020

Another 5 Star Review!

08/27/2020

According to the FBI, Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov promised to pay as much as $1 million to the employee to help his shadowy group steal data from a Nevada-based company for ransom purposes.