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If you work for, or run, a business, there is an email that tends to show up at least once a month: the “let us help you fix your website” email. At this newspaper, those emails make the rounds. Fake consultants promise front-page Google attention and a spike in views. The spiel goes on and eventually asks for contact with the recipient. Maybe it’s a phone call, maybe it’s a simple email reply, but all roads lead to wanting critical information from the business. Small businesses are big targets for these scams as they might be new to the world of website building and it would be easy to jump in with hopes of expansion into the web. Don’t fall for it. There are real paid consultants businesses can seek out that are legitimate. If someone reaches out with promises of internet grandeur, it’s best to put their email in the spam folder where it belongs. Link: https://www.chicoer.com/2020/02/11/branding-scam-targets-businesses-scam-of-the-week/

By  Moris Beracha .- There are food and sweet vending machines all over the world. Therefore, this market has become the target of some developers, who are working to enable people to pay for products into vending machines with cryptocurrencies. It can be highlighted that the energy drinking company “Red Bull” installed the first energy drink machine that only accepts bitcoins (BTC) in 2016, amid the Paralelni Polis congress of hackers in Prague, the Check Republic. Then, the price of tokens dropped and many companies that planned to develop this type of technology decided to turn a blind eye, until in 2019 they decided to take up said systems. In this sense, it is important to mention that a Brazilian programmer and hardware hacker created a Coca-Cola vending machine accepting payments in BTC. The machine also accepts Lightning Network (LN) transactions. According to the  TheNextWeb  site,  “this machine has been assembled by using a water pump, a to...

By Ana Berman A recent Bitcoin scam on Twitter that compromised several major companies verified accounts came from a third-party app , tech news outlet the Next Web (TNW) reports Friday, Nov. 16, citing social media officials. Speaking to TNW, a Twitter spokesperson confirmed that the attack came from an outside software provider and not from Twitter’s own system. However, the official refrained from naming the app. The spokesperson reportedly explained that the attackers exploited a third-party marketing solution to launch a Bitcoin ( BTC ) giveaway from several verified accounts, including Google’s G Suite and major U.S. department store retailer Target. The information was implicitly confirmed by Target. Its representatives told TNW that the hackers used a third-party marketing app, authorized to post content on Target’s behalf. As Cointelegraph previously reported, on Wednesday, Nov. 14, hackers took over G Suite and Target accounts (800,000 and 1.92 mi...