Anatomy of Cryptophishing – Hydro Project

Cross-posted to “AdventuresInCyberSecurity.com” and “BecomeACyberSecurity.Expert” Logo is stolen from the real Hydro Protocol folks. I get some interesting emails, and in particular, some interesting phishing emails. Most of them are quite poor, and fairly easy to spot, and the people constructing them don’t go through a lot of effort. I received one today that was […]

Getting Back to Blogging….

It’s 2019 – Happy New Year! I’m going to try to get back to blogging again. I suspect that as I do, things will be much more stream of consciousness, but then, that’s the point of this blog. (See the tag line.) I’d like to be doing more reviews of things – I created a […]

Amazon Review: Logitech K830 Illuminated Living Room Wireless Keyboard

Logitech K830 Illuminated Living Room Wireless Keyboard (Affiliate Link) First, let me clear up something – if this is touted as a Bluetooth keyboard, it is NOT Bluetooth in the traditional sense. It requires a “sense” connection which requires you to plug a small receiving into a USB port. You will NOT be able to […]

U.S. Government Releases “Proof” of U.S. Election Hacking by Russians

Gary Markstein, as above. Edit: Original post still below, but I’ve been informed by several of the Threat Researchers with whom I work that this report is not supposed to be considered as the government’s proof, merely things that organisations can use in order to protect themselves. With that understood, it still furthers a narrative […]

Google Pixel XL (128GB) Review

I own a Google Pixel XL in Very Black with 128GB onboard storage. I have had a Samsung Galaxy Note since the first one. I still have my Galaxy Note 4. (Actually, I have two of them! Unfortunately, I couldn’t go any further with the Note series for two big reasons. Samsung in their <sarcasm>infinite […]

The NYT Calls for FB to “Join Them as Defenders of Truth”

The problem with the New York Times calling for Facebook to “join them” as “defenders of truth” is that few people, especially those that would have voted for Trump, would even consider them defenders of truth. Their “Intellectual Yet Idiot” scientism (Thank you NNT!) and bias towards the Dems/left makes them anything but. When they […]

The Necessity of the Electoral College in One Picture

Source: MichaelPRamirez.com Most people don’t understand the electoral college – they think it is an arcane system from the 1800s, and screws the voters. In reality, it’s a somewhat-arcane system from the 1700s, and is designed not to screw voters. The United States, for all its preaching of democracy (and its attempts to democratise the […]

Why I Need More Than 16GB RAM @apple @timcook

This is a screenshot of my desktop as it exists at the time of this writing. As of right now, I have the following programmes open on my Macbook Pro: TextEdit SpiderOakOne (suspended) Google Chrome (dozens of suspended tabs) Google Hangouts VM for Work (Windows 10, Outlook, Jabber, Edge) MacJournal TweetDeck Google Chrome Canary (dozens […]

On @apple’s Lack of Improvement

It seems I’m not the only one disappointed with the lack of improvements in the new Macbook Pros. Scanning Linked In and other social media sites shows I’m not the only one who would prefer a laptop that isn’t thinner but that has more RAM and better features overall. I’m not sure why Apple is […]

Old Man Logan (Or, On Getting Old) @sirpatstew

I didn’t make this picture, someone else did. But I considered it an honour. My company recently held a Sales Kick-Off (SKO) for the second time this year in Las Vegas. One of the things that we did was to highlight deals that had been won that were really important for particular reasons. The one […]