AMMYY Archives - The Silicon Underground David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Tue, 04 Nov 2025 01:09:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://kerosin.digital/rss-chimp16321610 Got tech support scammed? Worry about your credit card, not your computer https://dfarq.homeip.net/got-tech-support-scammed-worry-about-your-credit-card-not-your-computer/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=got-tech-support-scammed-worry-about-your-credit-card-not-your-computer Wed, 12 Nov 2014 11:00:20 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=7433 A college classmate contacted me a week or two ago. A relative of hers got scammed, and she wanted to know what to do. “Get the charges reversed on the credit card,” was my simple response. “What about cleaning up

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]]> 7433 A security professional fights back against tech support scammers https://dfarq.homeip.net/a-security-professional-fights-back-against-tech-support-scammers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-security-professional-fights-back-against-tech-support-scammers Sun, 14 Sep 2014 14:09:59 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=7371 I guess Matt Weeks is as sick as I am of tech support scammers, because he developed a way to fight back, in the form of a Metasploit module that exploits a software defect in the AMMYY remote access tool that

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]]> 7371 This “Computer Maintenance Department” sure doesn’t know much about computer maintenance https://dfarq.homeip.net/how-i-turned-the-tables-on-the-computer-maintenance-department-scam/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-i-turned-the-tables-on-the-computer-maintenance-department-scam Wed, 22 May 2013 12:00:26 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=6622 “Peggy” from “Computer Maintenance Department” (1-645-781-2458 on my caller ID) called again. Lots of people are aware of these phone calls. They call, make vague claims about receiving a report that your computer is running slow and giving you errors,

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