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FWIW, @john_pifer, I recently picked up a refurb Dell Precision workstation. Precisions are Dell's professional-grade workstation; this one has a 6-core/12-thread Xeon in it, an absolute monster of a graphics card (NVIDIA 970), a 120GB SSD and 2TBHDD and was $180 Canadian, which is about 5 bucks...

Careful: Then someone's going to suggest Linux; and then we're on a slippery slope towards people using stable, safe, simple, secure, private computing.

Sadly, under no circumstances can/should this drive be trusted: Its total failure has either already occurred or is imminent and unpredictable.

Yes, yes they can. https://www.cloudflare.com/en-ca/learning/email-security/what-is-email-spoofing/

It's very difficult to answer that one without getting too deep into nerd-speak; but here is what I do in layman's terms: I have my backup server, which is darn-near impossible to access by any means (firewall is closed to everything, I use a reverse SSH tunnel to a SSH bastion server, use...

Yup. They can almost always forensically determine what the problem was and take some type of step to mitigate a repeat. Even presuming they'd backed up their infrastructure to completely cover what was encrypted, it'd take so long and be so disruptive that it's just easier and less costly to...

Dallas, TX was hit with ransomware recently as well. https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/03/politics/ransomware-dallas-police-department/index.html And environmental agency in my area got scammed not too long ago...

My guess is that if you reply, or even load an external asset like an image, you've in essence validated your email addresses both as "real" and as "actively monitored", which will add a lot more value to that address on the spam market.

This is going to be largely dependent on the devices that are connected to your router. You can have the fastest internet connection on earth but still experience bottlenecks in bandwidth if your router is slow and/or if your devices are slow. I have an on iPhone 4 whose WiFi is only slightly...

Likely, but there are some massive problems that make whatever efforts already undertaken seem awfully foolish: 1) Who is passing legislation? The U.S.? Great, spammers will move their $15/ month spam-dedicated VPS to Romania. 2) You've now caught someone sending spam from a U.S.-based email...

As others have said, if your computer already has Bluetooth it should be as simple as pairing the mouse. However, I don't know how good the Bluetooth is for Ubuntu 18.04 - It's been a good few years since I've used it. Support for 18.04 runs out on 31 May of this year, by the way. It is...

Yup - It is comically simple to replicate the GUI of any given web site, put yourbank.com in an email as a link, with the user presuming the link to points to yourbank.com but ends up at yourbank.someshadyrussiansite.ru that looks 100% exactly like yourbank.com.

I just noticed that this story I clicked on through my RSS reader landed me at a URL that seems to indicate the origin of the click:

There are a bazillion different applications for this method. Typically, I might see something like this when I click on a link on a site's homepage. So I start here: atikovisawesomesite.com ... and I click on "ANNOUNCEMENT: AWESOME NEW PRODUCT!!!" which leads to the awesomenewproduct.html...

FWIW, 100% of the time I use anything like this it is to track the efficacy of engagement, not anything from you as a user. e.g.: Let's say I want to try out two different graphics announcing a client's Super Awesome New Product. I'll use this link for one graphic...

@atikovi That is just the link **I** included. That does not mean that that data is the entirety of the vulnerability disclosure, dude! What if I had posted the link to "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley? It's a 0-day, in the wild, with a "high" severity rating.

Google is advising everyone update Chrome (I don't know for sure; but would assume that also includes Chromium-based derivatives, including, well, everything except Firefox and Safari these days!) ASAP to mitigate a 0-day; CVE-2023-2033. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-2033

Oh, no. Norton A/V does not protect you against using an unsupported OS, because the threats are not viruses. It is intrusion. I don't want to type all of this garbage again. Please read this...

Windows 7 has been sunsetted and *****is no longer supported**** as of January 2020. Software vendors are rightfully dropping support for it; more each day, thankfully. It is extremely unwise to continue using it; ****especially if you are considering using it for your personal SS and health...

Can one even use exntensions for Chrome on a mobile platform?