Displaying items by tag: Hoax

A ransomware gang known as Groove is claimed to have been an elaborate hoax meant to deceive the security sector and the media, with even a site backed by a CIA-funded threat intelligence firm falling for the spoof.

It seems Apple is not the only one who can make money from its iTunes site. Scammers are phishing users with a hoax email asking for payment for downloaded music.

An online blog claimed to have a photo of perennial Apple cloner Xiaomi’s new MacBook Air clone, and even before it appears to have been outed as a hoax, I had my suspicions.

Basically, the tale is garbage!  It's a nice rock, but it certainly doesn't appear to be a meteorite.

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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has taken the clearest images yet of the various Apollo landing sites.  Memo to the nay-sayers: the landings really did happen - here's photographic proof.

In a plot twist worthy of a Jason Bourne novel, concerns have emerged that the now-famous letter from Carolyn Bourne to Heidi Withers may well have been nothing more than a publicity-seeking hoax, instead of different strokes for different folks?

Although the story of Mark Bao's stolen MacBook Air being found after the owner 'remotely accessed' his computer, and downloading a video that the thief had recorded of himself dancing to 'Make It Rain', does Mr Bao's story add up?