by Greg Scott | Oct 30, 2026 | Cybersecurity, Phish collection
I collect the best and worst phishing samples that come my way. Recently, I’ve seen several AI phishing pitches targeting me as an author. They use Amazon and other online book listings as source material, compose language designed to stroke my ego, and then...
by Greg Scott | Nov 7, 2025 | Cybersecurity, Slice of Life
On Nov. 5, 2025, shortly after midnight, I replied to a friend’s Facebook post. My friend was worried that somebody had hijacked their Facebook account. I offered a reply. Had I known that Facebook automation would disappear me for my trouble, I probably would...
by Greg Scott | Aug 3, 2025 | Cybersecurity
On Friday, July 25, 2025, the City of St. Paul, Minnesota suffered such a large cyberattack that St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter asked Minnesota Governor, Tim Walz, to bring in the National Guard to help recover. I am writing this on Saturday night, August 2, to organize...
by Greg Scott | Apr 13, 2025 | Cybersecurity, Politics and Religion
In 2016, two years before President Trump started CISA, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, I answered a reporter query about cybersecurity public/private partnerships. After my history with the FBI bureaucracy and InfraGard, I didn’t think any...
by Greg Scott | Mar 22, 2025 | Cybersecurity, Phish collection
My phish collection posts are usually quick screen shots with commentary. This one, about an Ellen Marie Wiseman impersonator, needs more. I don’t get out much, and so I had never heard of Ellen Marie Wiseman. Turns out, she’s a best selling author. She...
by Greg Scott | Mar 22, 2025 | Cybersecurity, Slice of Life
My buddy, Bob, left this Facebook post in early March, 2025, about how he found a way to recover his Facebook profile and it caught my attention. He lives in Illinois. Here is what he said. EIGHT MONTHS AGO someone tried to hack my account, and in response, facecrook...
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