Does a domain registrar have to reveal personal information to anyone who claims to have an interest? Namecheap explains their position in their fight with Facebook over this type of demand for personal information. I believe Namecheap is in the right on this and that the issue is important.
Today I deleted a spam comment from this blog. That is not very memorable. What was different was that the first line stuck with me. This is a very funny blog! I loved the way you … One of the techniques of comment spammers is to include generically congratulatory text on the grounds the bloggers…
There’s a story on MSNBC.com about a security vulnerability discovered in DNS servers. Those are the machines that take the name you type into your address bar and convert it into numbers your computer can comprehend. If it converts it into the wrong set of numbers, you go to the wrong place. It would be…
Multiple recent incidents of clients having difficulties with email attachments have set me to calling people to remind them of good security practices with email. You don’t have to be a victim. Dealing correctly with attachments to emails is extremely important because it has become one of the primary vectors for attacking your machine. The…
Spoof emails can be convincing if they contain the right information. Further, how do you know whether you have actually been hacked? Here are some tips.
They’ve laid out the critical data in a post titled Election Hack Report FAQ. This report includes clarifying that, despite their headline, they were not claiming that the report truly traced the hacking to Russia. I thought that was pretty clear in the first place, but I suppose “headline only” readers (not my favorite people),…
… along with other annoying things. But today I was reminded of these emails when Jody showed me one she got that purported to be from Amazon. The folks who do this stuff know that a whole bunch of people shop on Amazon, so they create a fake email and choose a price that many…
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