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Scams

Department of Justice – Subpoena -SCAM WARNING

My past is littered with instances where I have been sued, or people have tried to sue me. So when I received this email about a Subpoena I opened it with hesitation in case it was something legitimate. Once open, it was quite clearly not. haha. Came from the following address – looks propa legit […]

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Weblog

Social Media has Ruined The World

Social Media is Shit I saw an image shared (ironically) on social media, that contained what was labelled as an “Unpopular opinion”. That opinion, was that Social Media has destroyed our generations chances of ever truly being happy. Back in the days before we posted our every single move we make online, an individual’s world […]

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Scams

Mailgun.com Scam – Fake Support Ticket Phishing Scam Email

Wow, this one took me by surprise to be honest. We use Mailgun for many of our customer sites, as it provides great logging and flexibility for delivering emails. It also means the outgoing emails aren’t tied to the same server the website is on, as emails can get people on blacklists and that can […]

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Work/Technical

Securing phpMyAdmin… the Easy Way… any OS, any version…

We work with various servers at work, and one of the areas that gets targeted the most by bots and stuff, seems to be the phpmyadmin login page. Now, you could obfuscate the folder name to throw them off the scent… but that probably means renaming loads of things other than the core foldername & […]