Tech Support Scammers Cast a Wider Net
Microsoft is warning of a wave of phishing campaigns pushing tech support scams via malicious links to phony Amazon, Alibaba and LinkedIn web pages. Continue reading Tech Support Scammers Cast a Wider Net
Category Archives: BSOD
Blue screen of death with a support number? Beware the malware scam
In the old days tech support scammers called you up on the phone, trying to dupe you into believing your Windows PC had malware on it.. Now they trick you into calling them…
David Bisson reports.
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Fake Blue Screen of Death faux-freezes your system like the real McCoy
It hides your cursor, disables Task Manager and plasters your screen with a BSoD image. Calling the number leads to bogus help centers. Continue reading Fake Blue Screen of Death faux-freezes your system like the real McCoy
DEF CON: BSODomizing In High Definition
A few years ago, [Kingpin] a.k.a. [Joe Grand] (A judge for the 2014 Hackaday Prize) designed the most beautiful electronic prank ever. The BSODomizer is a simple device with a pass-through connection for a VGA display and an infrared receiver. Plug the BSODomizer into an unsuspecting coworker’s monitor, press a button on a remote, and watch Microsoft’s blue screen of death appear. It’s brilliant, devious, and actually a pretty simple device if you pick the right microcontroller.
The original BSODomizer is getting a little long in the tooth. VGA is finally dead. The Propeller chip used to generate the video …read more
Blue Screen of Death meets cybercrime – true or false?
Some say “panic,” some go into “guru meditation,” others “abnormally end.” On Windows, it’s a BSoD… Continue reading Blue Screen of Death meets cybercrime – true or false?
Microsoft’s Updating The BSOD To Make It Slightly Less Painful
Microsoft is testing a way to improve the BSOD experience in Windows 10 to give the end user a few more clues about what caused the crash.
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