I don’t usually write articles because I’m angry. Today is an exception. Within the past week, I received a notification letter from the North Los…
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Updates since initial posting on June 24, 2026 9:45 am June 23, 12:01 added a link to the initial bleeping computer story June 23, 20:35…
Leave a CommentHere’s a short blurb coming from the Kim Komando Newsletter. PayPal hit, again: Nothing makes people sweat like a PayPal email that’s actually real. PayPal…
Leave a CommentHello folks, Starting this year, it came to me that we aught to do something different and collect the biggest diatribes of the month and…
Leave a CommentI saw this in the Kim Komando newsletter and thought after I did some other stuff, I’d see what’s going on. Bleeping computer is reporting…
Leave a CommentHello folks, There’s a new scam going around and the JRN has been sent two of these. The following is what the message says: My…
Leave a CommentPost Mortem: 986themix.com email issues Hello folks, This is a post mortem report with an issue we experienced on Thursday evening and a good majority…
1 CommentI actually read this blog from Jonathan Mosen, a respected advocate of software and accessibility. He wrote the CEO of Sponos to ask questions and…
Leave a CommentThe following is an email that I received from Dropbox Sign. It does come from a sub domain from Dropbox No links are present, but…
Leave a CommentIf you use Dropbox sign, you better read the following. I don’t have a whole lot of time to do a lot of reading, but…
Leave a CommentSo I just saw the following post on Mastodon from Brian Krebs. No details about the company are given, maybe it is a thought piece.…
Leave a CommentSeems as though Fortra has issues again with their products, more specificly Go Anywhere; Cisa continues to speak, HPE gets owned in the email department…
Leave a CommentHello folks, I’m going to try and keep up here with Sans News Bites, and its a brand new year. One of th biggest stories…
Leave a CommentHello folks, I had everything planned out, get coffee, grab some new holiday tunes and then start blogging. Problem was, I’ve not felt well. So,…
Leave a CommentTo protect the identity, I will not be putting the entire email out here, but someone at MENVI forwarded the email to me. The email…
Leave a CommentDomains are one of the cornerstones of the Internet. Its how we get around the internet. Domains are things you can recognize like this blog…
Leave a CommentEarlier, I penned an article that talks about passwords. While I didn’t put the NCSAM tag on that blog post, NCSAM is in its title.…
Leave a CommentHow about your passwords? Since the beginning of time, passwords have been the cornerstone of the Internet. From those that used Dos, to those that…
Leave a CommentWhile I normally don’t post news items like deaths of people, shootings and the like, we’re going to start NCSAM really soon and this could…
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When the Display Name Lies: A Suspicious Payment Email Lands in My Inbox
One of the lessons we regularly repeat on The Security Box and Throwback Saturday Night is simple: do not trust the name displayed by your…