Collaborate Disseminate
Office Depot and OfficeMax are fined millions for tricking customers into thinking their computers were infected with malware, car alarms can make your vehicle less secure, and facial recognition in apartment blocks comes under the microscope.
All this… Continue reading Smashing Security #122: The big fat con at Office Depot
Feds win technical victory against an alleged campaign to fool customers. The FTC claims Office Depot and Support.com deliberately lied to consumers, saying their PCs were infected with malware. However, the scanning tool they used didn’t actually sca… Continue reading Office Depot and Support.com to Pay $35M for Fake Malware Scan ‘Scam’
Office Depot, and its partner Support.com, have been fined $35 million for using the PC Health Check tune-up service to dupe people into buying unnecessary computer repair and technical services.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Office Depot fined millions for tricking customers into believing their PCs were infected with malware
News investigations show office supply chain sold unneeded fixes for $180. Continue reading Office Depot caught claiming out-of-box PCs showed “symptoms of malware”
News investigations show office supply chain sold unneeded fixes for $180. Continue reading Office Depot caught claiming out-of-box PCs showed “symptoms of malware”