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One of the latest email scams as reported by the How-To-Geek: https://www.howtogeek.com/697176/psa-watch-out-for-this-new-amazon-email-phishing-scam/

BuzzFeed reports that the Democratic National Committee was hacked using a simple “phishing” attack.   This is a matter that we preach about a lot (both on a personal level, and when I was working with my former employer, EONI — read articles from its News section here and here and here.) And review our … Continue reading Phishing. Disgusting.

For years and years, my internet provider colleagues and I have preached about phishing and other ways that unwitting email and web users click on links that are not what they purport to be or are otherwise harmful.  And, ever since they came into existence quite a few years ago, I have advised web clients … Continue reading QR Code Spoofing and Related Security Issues

As an unexpected follow-on to today’s earlier post on phishing, another Internet annoyance and issue was discussed in today’s Fresh Air podcast, in which Terry Gross interviews author and law professor Tim Wu.

Now that dust has settled somewhat on the Heartbleed incident, and you must surely have by now changed your passwords — presumably using best practices of unique passwords for each account, “strong” passwords using mixed case, mixed alpha and numerics, no dictionary words, no simple character substitutions, etc.  AND assuming that your site/service provider passes the … Continue reading Epilogue – Heartland