Blackmail variant – 2023-01-31
And another one… Remember, it’s stupid easy to spoof the from address in an email. And in my case, as I’ve said several times, I don’t h...
Author: Kenneth Ballard
Blackmail variant – 2023-01-28
An odd variant, but not the first time I’ve received one formatted like this. Interestingly is the fact the sender put the BTC wallet address in the subje...
Coming full circle
When I first built Nasira almost 7 years ago, I knew the day would come when the first pair of 4TB hard drives would be pulled and replaced. Whether due to fail...
Blackmail variant – 2023-01-26
Two new blackmail variants two days in a row… And this one is rather unique in that it plays on the fact that we’ve all probably received one of the...
Blackmail variant – 2023-01-25
Been a while since I’ve seen a new variant on the blackmail “we have you on video masturbating” scam email. Hi there! I regret to inform you a...
Virtualization server gets more storage
An NVMe solid-state drive in a dual-Opteron server… Just ponder that for a moment. Why in the world would anyone do that? The big reason: storage is cheap...
Building a router
Amazing that it’s been… 6 years (as of this writing) since I decided to pursue 10GbE. First trying to build a custom switch, then dropping all that ...
Blackmail variant – 2022-12-15
Another variant. This one came across with the subject “(~_~)”. On 2022-12-20, I received a similar email with badly-formed HTML as the body text wi...
Metamask – 2022-12-12
Another phishing attempt. The metamask.io URL was set to link to a phishing site. That’s one of the ways they get you to click on these sites and enter yo...
Metamask – 2022-12-07
It’s easy to tell for me, at least, when emails are phishing attempts. Especially when they come from companies for whom I have zero relationship. Like Me...