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Phishing/SPAM Example Series – Number 2

Posted on September 13, 2020September 13, 2020 by ninjatechnyc
PayPal

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

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Posted in privacy, security, tech tips Tagged Don't Click On That Link, email, paypal, phishing, scam

Phishing/SPAM Example Series – Number 1

Posted on September 12, 2020 by ninjatechnyc
Phishing Email

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

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Posted in privacy, security, tech tips Tagged email, paypal, phishing, scam

Anker Deals

Posted on September 11, 2020September 11, 2020 by ninjatechnyc
Amazon Deals

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

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Posted in gadgets, tech Tagged Amazon, Anker, battery packs, Deals, home office

Windows DNS Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Posted on July 17, 2020July 17, 2020 by ninjatechnyc

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

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Posted in security, tech, tech tips, windows Tagged CVE-2020-1350, DNS, Microsoft, Vulnerability

Don’t Click On That Link! | Avoid Becoming a Phishing Victim

Posted on July 16, 2020August 11, 2020 by ninjatechnyc

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

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Posted in security, tech, tech tips Tagged ID Theft, Identity Theft, phishing, scam

Share a Folder between Host OS and Guest OS in Virtual Box (Windows > Linux Mint)

Posted on June 8, 2020July 17, 2020 by ninjatechnyc

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

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Posted in linux, tech, tech tips, windows Tagged Linux Mint, shared folder, Virtual Box

jQuery for WordPress Update

Posted on May 5, 2020July 13, 2020 by ninjatechnyc

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

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Posted in security, tech, tech tips, Wordpress Tagged jQuery, Wordpress

Ubuntu Project – The Stuck At Home Edition

Posted on April 14, 2020July 17, 2020 by ninjatechnyc

So with all this coronavirus stay-the-heck-home lockdowns, being cooped up at home all day, I decided to come back to my blog…   I figured now would be a good time to do and document a nice project that I’ve been wanting

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Posted in linux, tech, tech tips, windows Tagged 2FA, Active Directory, MFA, Server, ubuntu, VPN

WordPress Post Editor Gutenberg

Posted on April 14, 2020April 15, 2020 by ninjatechnyc

Since I’ve been stuck at home with everyone else because of this dang COVID19 crap, I figured I would get back into some blogging.  Came back here to WordPress, did an update, and got greeted by this horrendous post editor. All I

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Posted in linux, tech, tech tips, Wordpress Tagged Editor, Gutenberg, Wordpress

WordPress Permalinks Causing 404 Error

Posted on April 14, 2020April 17, 2020 by ninjatechnyc

This blog is a selfhosted WordPress instance. When I initially set it up, I had used the default settings of the permalinks section: After some time, I wanted the post urls to refer to the post title, so I selected “Post name”

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Posted in linux, tech, tech tips Tagged 403 Error, apache, htaccess, permalinks, ubuntu, Wordpress

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