by Greg Scott | Nov 14, 2020 | Technology
People outside the IT industry occasionally ask me what RAID is all about. I finally took the time to write it up. RAID is an acronym for Redundant arrays of independent disks. The acronym in the original 1980s paper stood for “Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive...
by Greg Scott | Nov 10, 2020 | Phish collection
For more phishing samples, see my phishy email collection. This one came in from a Contact form on my website. It threatens retaliation unless I get rid of all the writer’s alleged copyrighted images. The creative twist is, it comes with a link to a...
by Greg Scott | Nov 9, 2020 | Phish collection
For more phishing samples, see my phishy email collection. For security reasons, we locked your account access. Click here to make everything all better. One example of a fake bank account email. Do people still fall for this stuff? If you “click here” to...
by Greg Scott | Nov 3, 2020 | Slice of Life
10 AM Monday morning, Nov. 2, 2020. We, the people waiting to vote at the lower level of the Eagan, MN. City Hall. Based on my experience, the last person in this line would have waited around 90 minutes. After voting back in 2012, I commented about the peaceful...
by Greg Scott | Nov 1, 2020 | Phish collection
For more phishing samples, see my phishy email collection. With every new crisis, count on a wave of opportunistic phishing attacks. Here are a few based on COVID-19. I give all these an F. Crooks are creative. We can be smarter. Don’t fall for phishy misery...
by Greg Scott | Oct 29, 2020 | Phish collection
For more phishing samples, see my phishy email collection. Extortion scams similar to this one fly around the internet all the time. The premise behind them is, an attacker wants you to believe they broke into your computer and copied your most embarrassing secrets....
by Greg Scott | Oct 29, 2020 | Phish collection
For more phishing samples, see my phishy email collection. Another scam claiming to come from my email administrator. But before clicking on the link to make everything all better, hover over it first to see where it really points. Hint: not somewhere I want to go....
by Greg Scott | Oct 28, 2020 | Phish collection
For more phishing samples, see my phishy email collection. Fake Amazon documents may be one of the most common phishing attacks. Timing is everything. Maybe you ordered something big from Amazon a couple days ago and you’re expecting a shipping...
by Greg Scott | Oct 28, 2020 | Phish collection
For more phishing samples, see my phishy email collection. This came in via my website contact form. And so, unless I believe the email address the sender left in the web form, it really is anonymous. If I wanted to badly enough, I could find the IP Address of the...
by Greg Scott | Oct 27, 2020 | Phish collection
For more phishing samples, see my phishy email collection. This is a pretty good phishing scam because Quickbooks emails electronic invoices all the time and Accounts Payable departments are used to seeing them. The only giveaway is hovering over the embedded link....
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