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As I age, I"m a couple of weeks short of 86 now, I get inundated with scam emails. Now I'm not just getting ones that say they are from Amazon, my bank, UPS, other retailers, and payment services they are claiming to be from the Social Security! The first thing I do is look at the address...

Hi everyone. Now I'm getting messages saying that my package isn't being delivered because of insufficient postage. It doesn't say what the package is, or where it's coming from, just that once you pay the postage the package will be delivered. The older I get, (I'm 85) the more stuff like...

Original release date: April 15, 2020 | Last revised: June 23, 2020 Summary The U.S. Departments of State, the Treasury, and Homeland Security, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are issuing this advisory as a comprehensive resource on the North Korean cyber threat for the international...

Phishing is one of the easiest and most common tactics cyber criminals use to complete their objectives whatever it may be. Most people have received one or more phishing attacks and the amount sent to people is staggering. They can come as text messages, phone calls, email, advertisements on...

This election day select "None of the above" for every candidate. Now, the Republican Party has it setup to where Medicare no longer cover's Lantus Insulin for Diabetics. They obviously want us diabetics to die, but only after we vote for them first. The current Democrat party is idiot ridden...

Ars Technica just posted a article about the FBI stating for people & businesses to restart their routers, modems, etc. immediately to avoid a ongoing Russia hack. Article link : FBI tells router users to reboot now to kill malware infecting 500k devices

Some information I've put together regarding social engineering and how people use it to get information. I will likely expand it in the future. ***UPDATE*** This file is safe I did not rig it as a test.

Every single day in life we all inspire each other :) I want to inspire people to love life :) I even inspire LGBT people to love their life :) Life balance is essential. Balance between Family, Friends, Social Life, Work, Fun etc. Every day in Life I get livid dealing with so much stigma in...

I just wanted to post a link to security awareness training videos from a great site Cybrary.it. I think everyone should go through the modules once a year for the average user. Link Removed Enjoy and be a safe cyber citizen.

Make Use Of just posted a article about Google Android smartphones listening to everything and storing it. A definite must read article that explains the situation and how to sort of fix it. How to Find Out If Google Has Been Listening to You

Awareness and readiness resources for the Skype for Business client Link Removed

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (January 13, 2015): V1.0 (January 13, 2015): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow security feature bypass by unintentionally relaxing the...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (January 13, 2015): V1.0 (January 13, 2015): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow security feature bypass by unintentionally relaxing the...

I do buy and sell, pure business, and I have this rather rare collection, a promotion pack for a movie about Mannerheim that never made it in the end. But there's unique material in it. I was contacted by a woman, who wanted to buy. It was all adult, "Get from work at 4 O'clock"... After some...

Lindsey Lodge Hospice is a local hospice which gives support and treatment to terminally ill patients and where I spend one day a week as one of a team of volunteer chaplains. From Friday August 1st Lindsey Lodge is one of three different charities being put forward from the East Midlands for...

A company called Acadia Global is still trying to tell poeople that their pcs are getting infected and they can fix it for a price. It is a known scam dating back to at least 12/12. Go to the FBI at www.ic3.gov and report it if it hapens to you. Do not give any money or information.

This thread is partly born from a new experience of mine, described lightly later, a fraud, now investigated by Police by four countries, plus Interpol. But it's mainly inspired by numerous inserts by mainly young people in various sites, who for some reason suspect their own sanity. The...

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Just posting for those that have Amazon associated with your ordering email address. just this past week, I have received a couple of order update notices that looked like it came from Amazon, and sure enough it's faked. Since I used this particular email address for order notification, it was...

I have just installed a second NIC in a Windows 7 box. NLA identifies the second network with the same name as the first which makes it impossible to change the Network Discovery settings separately from the first network. Is there any way to force NLA to identify the second card as a...