Tech Tips From a NYC System Administrator
I’m surprised this story did not get more traction. It appears ACLU gives it’s donor data to Facebook so that Facebook could target more users that are like the existing donors. I mean it makes sense from a marketing perspective. I’ve given to ACLU…and I don’t like Facebook. I wish I had known… Details: In the…
Here’s an amazing development – Georgia Tech researchers created a way to harvest electromagnetic energy (currently about 6 microwatts) from 5G signals, enough to power IoT devices. Even crazier, the antenna system can be 3D printed onto a flexible credit-card sized card. The applications for this type of tech are endless. It can replace or…
According to Business Insider, looks like 533 MILLION users from about 106 countries had their personal data from 2019 posted onto the dark web. The data was scraped from Facebook before they applied a security patch back in 2019. The exposed data includes personal information of over 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries, including…
Photo by Brady Rogers on Unsplash Here is another “PayPal” email. This one purports to be “looking out” for me. All the links in the email (including the “change your password” and “Help & Contact” lead to https://vk.cc/azxnUK. Also note the actual email address (“closerdesign.co”), that has nothing to do with PayPal. Notice how they…
Just a followup to my Medium “Don’t Click On That Link!” Post, here’s an example of a “PayPal” email recently received that is clearly bogus: At first glance, the email looks legitimate. It comes with the official PayPal logo, has the same format as a typical email from PayPal. Also cites a legitimate…
I’ve been a big fan of Anker products for a very long time, especially their battery packs. Amazon has some great deals going on right now, and these are some of my favorites that I personally own: Anker PowerCore ($19.99) It’s a 3350mAh portable charger (“Lipstick-Sized”) that will fit in your pocket and provide you…
Severe/Critical vulnerability in Windows DNS. Severe enough that DHS CISA is classifying it a level 10 (out of 10). A quick workaround is mentioned in the Microsoft link below: To work around this vulnerability, make the following registry change to restrict the size of the largest inbound TCP-based DNS response packet that’s allowed: Subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\DNS\Parameters Value: TcpReceivePacketSize Type: DWORD Value data: 0xFF00…
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Be careful about clicking on links in emails that purport to be from your company helpdesk, CDC, Microsoft, your bank, the IRS, or another company that you deal with. With this COVID19 running rampant, and more people working from home, your work IT support folks may not be readily available to answer your technical questions….
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I use Linux Mint on Windows using Virtual Box, mainly to use as a sandboxed OS for security testing email attachments, links, and websites. Easy to take a snapshot and revert if I fubar it. I wanted to create a shared folder between host Operating System and Guest Operating system so i can pass along…
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WordPress comes bundled with jQuery and there are themes and plugins that call it. Unfortunately, WordPress does not have a good way to manage the version of jQuery being used, but using the plugin jQuery Manager for WordPress helps. The security folks ran a scan of our website and found it to be using jQuery…
