A dual message this memorial day 2025 Thanks for the service of all who fell for our country!!! Also do not download malware and thus do the work of the attacker??? Why would someone do that? Because the allure of a coupon or some perceived gain or Fear Of Missing Out (FOMO) Hackernews … Read more
The issue of What can be used for us will be used against us. I.e. We want to use the internet – it will be used to attack us. So we want to have email – it will be used against us. There are some technical configurations we can do to help prevent scam attacks. … Read more
Here are some standard emails that came into my mailbox that are obviously fake…. Also an older post(7/15/2024) discussed a tax refund scam… by text and email Here is text of email(italicized): Hi <insert-name>, Just wanted to check if you’ve submitted your tax refund claim yet? SETC and ERC are federal government programs … Read more
JDSupra among other ezines on the Internet have cataloged the Lewis & Clark College in Portland hack Basically in March 2023 the administrators or others at the college learned that there was unauthorized access of their computer systems. Today 2 years later a story came out in the 2600 magazine “the Hackers Quarterly” The article … Read more
How? With training and security policies. Create a security culture and train your employees with a Security Policy. Train the employees to ensure they understand the security policy Here is a page at Fixvirus.com that discusses how to start a security policy: Also at the US Chamber of Commerce Here is relevant text from Chamber … Read more