{"id":33458,"date":"2015-02-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/beware-latest-online-threat-2\/"},"modified":"2015-02-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T00:00:00","slug":"beware-latest-online-threat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/beware-latest-online-threat-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware the latest online threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Adelaide TechGuy Richard Pascoe joins FIVEAA with the latest update.<\/h3>\n<p>Many people are still receiving online ransom demands, says Richard Pascoe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople would get ransom demands claiming they were accessing adult content and the Australian Federal Police had locked down their computer. This still happens today, so if you do get that, just take it to get it repaired.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now hackers are taking over entire websites and holding the owners to ransom, says Richard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LISTEN: hear how the scam works and what you should do:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/189358328&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/lifestyle\/warning-read-this-if-you-have-home-wi-fi\">WARNING &#8211; READ THIS IF YOU HAVE HOME WI-FI<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/lifestyle\/the-8-ways-facebook-has-completely-ruined-your-life\">8 WAYS FACEBOOK HAS RUINED OUR LIVES<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adelaide TechGuy Richard Pascoe joins FIVEAA with the latest update. Many people are still receiving online ransom demands, says Richard Pascoe. \u201cPeople would get ransom demands claiming they were accessing adult content and the Australian Federal Police had locked down their computer. This still happens today, so if you do get that, just take it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":24839,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-33458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-david-and-will","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Beware the latest online threat - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/beware-latest-online-threat-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Beware the latest online threat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Adelaide TechGuy Richard Pascoe joins FIVEAA with the latest update. 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