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Scareware is not dead
An email was forwarded to me that came from a security MSP trying to stir up business with someone at the company I work at. Their quasi-scareware email was funny, but a horrible way for us to take seriously. Only thing missing was a sentence asking for bitcoin. I remember several years ago, companies were… Read More »
Aloha!
Not a good week for NCR Aloha POS hosted solutions. They have been dealing with a BlackCat ransomware attack as reported by articles at: BleepingComputer – NCR suffers Aloha POS outage after BlackCat ransomware attack. DataBreaches.net – A short-lived BlackCat listing suggests NCR’s customers’ networks were accessed Securityweek.com – Payments Giant NCR Hit by Ransomware… Read More »
Firefox telemetry
Was looking at my Adguard for home server dashboard and I noticed the blocked links for Mozilla Firefox is sending telemetry data. I did some looking and Firefox data is mainly to help it make a better product but some products go too far. Either way, I want to disable it. Firefox doesn’t hide that… Read More »
Phishing emails
It is amazing how phishing emails are becoming more sophisticated. We have recently added a product called SlashNext to help protect our environment from phishing emails. It has been doing a fantastic job of catching emails that passed every other detection method. Below are six samples of the emails captured and blocked from going to… Read More »
O365 prompting for an alternative email address
Recently, O365 started prompting users in my organization during sign-in to add an alternative (Authentication verification) email address. This is not an option we turned on, nor is it an option I wanted to be enabled. If the user needs help resetting their password or having issues signing in, our policy is for them to… Read More »
Idiots using RAID0
About once a month I read a post somewhere that some poor schmuck is using or wanting to use RAID0 for spanning two drives together or thinking their SSD’s going to get better performance. If you are one of those idiots, we cannot be friends. I cannot deal with that amount of stupidity. RAID0 was… Read More »
Dynamic DNS
I’ve decided to drop Spectrum Business as my internet provider at home and move to AT&T Fiber. The only negative was that I would lose my static IP, but gain an Internet connection that is 5 times faster for the same price. Since I am no longer running a mail server from my home, I… Read More »
Basecamp and me
At my previous job, Basecamp was implemented for project management and a journal of what we worked on. For the majority of the time myself and one other co-worker were the only two adding daily entries. Sometimes we had a little fun with them. Below is a screenshot I found that I had saved from… Read More »