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PayPal cryptocurrency purchase scam

September 20th 2022

Hi everybody, I know that I have not written anything for a very, very long time. Life gets busy, other people take up the mantle and write about your most common themes, and things change and move on. It felt like I was writing the same stuff as too many other people. Anyway, I came […]

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Ransom emails

September 30th 2019

Yeah, nah. Last I checked our mail server was nowhere near Germany 😀

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Bigpond Phishing Email

June 12th 2018

Yeah, nah.

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Fake Westpac email

November 1st 2017

Note the URL:

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Yeah… nah.

May 17th 2017
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ALERT – StrawberryNet.Com is revealing the name, addresses and phone numbers associated with a purchaser’s email address without authentication

May 3rd 2017

If you, your family or friends have used that website, please warn them. Here is what happens: Go to the website and put anything into the shopping cart. Click “checkout”. Enter an email address when prompted. If the email address is already in their database the name, address and phone number associated with that email […]

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Big news re Google and Symantec issued EVs

March 24th 2017

Cite: https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/03/google-takes-symantec-to-the-woodshed-for-mis-issuing-30000-https-certs/ “In a severe rebuke of one of the biggest suppliers of HTTPS credentials, Google Chrome developers announced plans to drastically restrict transport layer security certificates sold by Symantec-owned issuers following the discovery they have issued more than 30,000 certificates. Effective immediately, Chrome plans to stop recognizing the extended validation status of all certificates issued […]

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That moment one “privacy” app interferes with another “privacy” app

January 7th 2017

Ghostery interfering with HTTPS Everywhere.

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New security steps for linked Skype and Microsoft accounts

November 23rd 2016

I received a spam message via Skype today from a person who I normally think of as too sophisticated to do something silly like re-use passwords.  And heard of another person who had also been compromised, but had absolutely no idea how it may have happened. I learned as part of my research into what may […]

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