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Phishing: Sometimes Timing is Everything

by | Dec 31, 2020 | Phish collection

For more phishing samples, see my phishy email collection. Sometimes, timing is everything. We placed an Amazon order yesterday and this came in today. I’ll give it a B+ because the email was good enough and the timing was right to persuade me to look at it. I...

SolarWinds Fallout: So What and Now What?

by | Dec 28, 2020 | Cybersecurity

Fallout from the SolarWinds supply chain attack will plague us for years, even if not in the headlines. FireEye founder, Kevin Mandia, first broke the news that somebody had attacked FireEye in a Dec. 8, 2020 blog post. Mandia may have suspected this would be just the...

God and Country and Big Lies

by | Dec 6, 2020 | Politics and Religion

In these turbulent times, I’m supposed to be quiet. Don’t say anything controversial on social media, don’t ruffle feathers, don’t add to the hysteria. And then I watch this scene in Georgia where Lin Wood, Sidney Powell and others on the Trump dream-team invoke God...

DEC – Digital Equipment Corporation – RIP

by | Dec 1, 2020 | Memoir

In 1987, Digital Equipment Corporation – DEC – was the second-largest computer company in the world, behind IBM. DEC started losing money in 1989, mass layoffs started shortly after that, and in 1998, Compaq bought the remains. Which wasn’t much. In...

Phishing: Chinese Equifax Exploit Offer

by | Nov 28, 2020 | Phish collection

For more phishing samples, see my phishy email collection. What could possibly go wrong with this offer? Just feed my Social Security Number to a website with a Chinese TLD (Top Level Domain name), blocked by default by the open source intrusion detection system,...