We are traveling at the moment, and I just went down to the hotel business center to print off a document. This hotel is using Microsoft boxes, so as I’m floundering around looking for how to access my USB stick, I end up in a browser and I see the desktop. On top of a […]
Tips and Tricks
Using DNS to validate crypto addresses in fundraisers
Whether it’s for trucker protests or defending against an invasion: crypto addresses need to be validated Fundraising via cryptocurrency is officially a thing, in fact it has been going on for years. It burst into the public awareness with the Canadian trucker protest in Ottawa, when Bitcoin fundraising platform Tallycoin started up a fundraiser for […]
How we migrated an entire WordPress site with no admin access
With our recent ArticNames acquisition we inherited a few clients who wanted to consolidate their websites here. One of them is a cabal of retired or semi-retired policy big wigs who write pseudonymously under the moniker Barrelstrength, (their web host was a completely different company, otherwise all of the following would have been moot). Their […]
How Cybercriminals Profit by Tapping Your Email
A few days ago I came across the CBC story on how a Canadian man had been defrauded out of $800,000 when cybercriminals inserted themselves into a real estate deal and had the funds diverted to themselves:
Network Solutions’ scammy bullshit signup funnel
It remains to be seen whether by the time I finish venting into this post, cooler heads will prevail and I will just byte my tongue and not post it, or at least go back and take the f-bombs out and clean up the title. Going negative against competitors runs somewhat contrary to our nature […]
What to do with that malware file you found?
Last week a customer emailed me about an item he had read in that edition of our #AxisOfEasy newsletter. He mentioned that he had received an obviously malware email with a .iso file in the attachment and he was wondering what to do with it. Not in terms of “how can I infect my computer […]
