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Thu Mar 2 02:06:47 EST 2017

I just heard a report on the radio about unauthorized access to the website handling registrations for the Coachella music festival. The hacker got names, birthdates, etc, but no passwords. The last sentence of the report said that people who used the site should change their passwords.Goldenvoice has warned Coachella. ( Read more... )

Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 03:11:44 +0000

I'm taking an on-line training course, and I really wish some of these other answers were correct:A specialized form of phishing that targets an organization's leadership is:Target Shooting
Whaling ✔
CIO Baiting
Shark Phishing

I'm up for having sport with the 1%. (Actually, I know next to nothing about this ( Read more... )

Fri Jan 15 19:38:02 EST 2016 ( Read more... )

Tue Dec 8 23:05:28 EST 2015

If no one responded to spam and phishing, sending it would be a waste of time, and it would stop. So some people out there are getting suckered, and their presence on the Internet is making life worse for everyone else.Return-Path: noreply@bankofamerica.com
Wouldn't my bank want to hear back from me?Received: from ( Read more... )

Tue Apr 14 04:57:40 EDT 2015

I got home tonight faster than my trip in today. I don't think that's ever happened before, especially since it's uphill coming home. It was into the wind going to work though. And this was the 2nd time I rode most of the way up the big killer hill, up to the zig zags that I don't think I can steer on my long bike. I ( Read more... )

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Sun Sep 28 15:46:12 EDT 2014

(That was the subject line in one of the emails I received today. I'm just sharing the chaos. ☺)

I got 3 Facebook invites today. In (I think) Bosnian. (Google Translate has a "Detect Language" option, that stupidly doesn't tell you what language it detected when it does the translation.) [a] I have told Facebook that ( Read more... )

Thu Sep 11 15:42:39 EDT 2014

[Nov 2017: I'm going through my DW/LJ posting backlog, and I've been skipping most of my spam rants (and there were a lot of them), but some still cry out for exposure....]

Pay enough attention to spell the words correctly in your subject line. Who's "leon"? Is he plural? And why would I make lemonade with them? ( Read more... )