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O365 Account with MFA on Thunderbird Can’t Send Email

Posted on April 25, 2021April 26, 2021 By ninjatechnyc
O365 Account with MFA on Thunderbird Can’t Send Email

Was playing around with Microsoft 365, got an E3 account for myself. I had set up MFA for obvious reasons. I set up my Exchange mailbox and was trying to add the account to my Thunderbird client. First step was to create an “app” password. You need an app password because Thunderbird doesn’t play nice…

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security, tech, tech tips, windows

ACLU shares donor data with Facebook!

Posted on April 16, 2021 By ninjatechnyc
ACLU shares donor data with Facebook!

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…

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opinion, privacy, security

Facebook hack…again

Posted on April 3, 2021 By ninjatechnyc

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…

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Phishing/SPAM Example Series – Number 2

Posted on September 13, 2020September 13, 2020 By ninjatechnyc
Phishing/SPAM Example Series – Number 2

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…

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Phishing/SPAM Example Series – Number 1

Posted on September 12, 2020 By ninjatechnyc
Phishing/SPAM Example Series – Number 1

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…

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Windows DNS Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Posted on July 17, 2020July 17, 2020 By ninjatechnyc
Windows DNS Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

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

Posted on July 16, 2020August 11, 2020 By ninjatechnyc
Don’t Click On That Link!  | Avoid Becoming a Phishing Victim

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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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 ran a scan of our website and found it to be using jQuery…

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security, tech, tech tips, Wordpress

Internet Explorer 8 – Does Not Remember Password

Posted on June 7, 2012 By ninjatechnyc

Problem: Internet Explorer 8 won’t remember the user’s password information for a website Symptoms: User starts IE8, types in “salesforce” in the address bar, which automatically brings him to to Salesforce.com. He clicks on the Login link, enters his Username and Password, checks off the box that says “Remember User Name”, and goes about his…

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opinion, privacy, security, windows

Spyware On Every Android (And Possibly Blackberry) Phone Out There

Posted on November 30, 2011 By ninjatechnyc

Per Gizmodo – Spyware on every Android (and possibly Blackberry and Nokia) phone out there… If you have any decently modern Android phone, everything you do is being recorded by hidden software lurking inside… Carrier IQ’s software is installed in your phone at the deepest level. You don’t know it’s there. You are never warned…

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