Watch Out for WordPress Vulnerabilities
At SWCP, we love our WordPress. This site is run on WordPress, we support the platform and strive to make it as easy and safe to use as possible, and we even host meetings at Ideas and Coffee to discuss how to use it most effectively. After all, WordPress is now used...
Beware Fake SWCP Tech Support Email Warnings
It happens just about every day. Some slimy scammer comes up with a new way to impersonate SWCP's renowned tech support in order to steal your data. Here's the latest that a customer recently received word for word (only the false tech support phone number has been...
The Crowdsourcing of Terror
The world is still reeling from the horrific Friday the 13th terrorist attacks in Paris; the cost in dead and wounded are still being counted, the clean-up is barely underway, and the investigation into the perpetrators is in its earliest phases. There will be much...
Don’t Panic: How Anxiety Aids the Bad Guys
Fear and anxiety are the biggest allies spammers have. Every month, for instance, that more of our customers than usual have problems with their bill, there's also a corresponding uptick in the number of them that fall for phishing attacks. The reason why seems clear:...
Private Email – Part 2
In our last post we showed you how to install the Mailvelope browser extension and generate PGP public and private keys, and how to import someone's public key. Now we'd like to actually use this structure to send encrypted email. At this point if you use Gmail or...
Private Email – Part 1
In that last few years we've come to see more and more that things we thought were private, simply aren't. Whether it is companies that want to sell you things, the government wanting to find terrorist plots, or thieves looking for personal data to aid with identity...