by Greg Scott | Dec 27, 2024 | Who Says IT is Boring?
My phone rang the Saturday morning before Christmas, 2024, and I met Dave, a friend of a friend. Dave’s old desktop computer had died and he bought a new Windows 11 Dell Inspiron desktop from Best Buy, but he could not connect to the internet and could not load...
by Greg Scott | Dec 10, 2024 | Memoir
Sometimes inconsequential events in our lives stand out later as important milestones. I was nine years old in fourth grade In November, 1966, when I watched my very first Star Trek episode, The Corbormite Maneuver. I wasn’t old enough to join NASA and explore...
by Greg Scott | Nov 29, 2024 | Cybersecurity, Who Says IT is Boring?
In mid October, 2024, a few weeks before this writing, I posted “A SYN flood DDoS attack up close and personal.” In a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack, somebody orchestrates lots of systems to flood a victim with traffic, denying internet...
by Greg Scott | Nov 23, 2024 | Phish collection
Somebody impersonating TransUnion wants to steal my login credentials. This phishing attack works because I froze my credit with the major credit reporting agencies a few months ago after somebody with details on my credit history tried to scam me with a phone...
by Greg Scott | Oct 15, 2024 | Cybersecurity
I had heard about different DDoS attacks, including SYN flood attacks, for a long time. In fact, I got serious about cybersecurity in November, 2000 after I found my internet-facing DNS server an unwitting part a DDoS attack against the government of Brazil. In a DDoS...
by Greg Scott | Aug 23, 2024 | Phish collection
This Facebook phishing sample earns points for creativity. Create a Facebook profile named, “Deadline in 20 Hours: Additional Details Requested 91718809.” The number at the end gives it that official look. Nice touch. Go after author Facebook pages and...
by Greg Scott | Aug 10, 2024 | Cybersecurity
DCIM\100MEDIA\DJI_0141.JPG – from Jan Wildeboer’s camera I liked what Jan Wildeboer had to say about the xz-utils and Crowdstrike incidents so much, I asked Jan’s permission to paste it as a guest blog post right here. I made one minor formatting...
by Greg Scott | Jul 22, 2024 | Phish collection
At first, I really thought this grazed but not fazed email came from the Trump team. But this one did not come from Trump or the Republicans. The attempt on Trump’s life was wrong and it robbed an innocent family of their father. But this email cracked me up...
by Greg Scott | Jul 1, 2024 | Cybersecurity, Slice of Life
I started using Facebook back in 2009. A few friends greeted me. It was fun. I connected with my sister, T, and her family in Idaho and we’ve traded hundreds, or maybe thousands of messages since then. T was 11 when I was born. She spent much of her teenage...
by Greg Scott | Jun 28, 2024 | Cybersecurity
Like nearly all sensational data breaches, the public will probably never know the root cause of the Great United Health Group data breach of 2024 that exposed medical information for millions and millions of Americans. But after following data breaches for a long...
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