For some stupid reason, I got the following two texts within 12 hours of each other, the first yesterday evening, the second this morning. […]
READ MOREWay back when (like, over 4 years ago now), I wrote up a blog post (GoDaddy shared Windows hosting compromised) about an issue I was seeing when this site was hosted on GoDaddy about a PHP hack. I’ve helped several people who were hit by the same hack, showing how they could monitor for it and clean it up if they had the same issue. Since then, I’ve moved this site over to Azure where, to be blunt, security is tighter. […]
READ MOREA couple of weeks ago, I came across a fascinating blog post about spotting phishing attempts via email: An Annotated Field Guide to Identifying Phish. For me, it’s one of those topics I come back to every now and then, especially when I receive dodgy looking emails with “simple” HTML links that purport to be legit. […]
READ MORESo, last week was a hoot. Just before Christmas I got a summons. No, not one of the “bad” ones, but a summons for juror service, which started last week. Yep, a couple of days after my nine-year anniversary of becoming a US citizen (6-Jan-2014) I had to appear in the El Paso County Combined Court as a prospective juror. […]
READ MOREWeird one this. For the past couple of months I’ve been getting emails to my work address offering business loans. Originally they were from one company called Capital Cosmos, which lasted until the week before Thanksgiving, and then suddenly they started coming from another called Club Capital. No matter the provenance, they’d both start off stating that the company I work for applied for a PPP (Paycheck Protection Program) loan for some amount (and I hasten to add that I have no idea if this is true, not my department, etc) and would we be interested in a further business loan for $X, where X varies wildly per email. […]
READ MOREI was surprised yesterday when I received an email from PayPal: “You’ve got a money request”. Wut? […]
READ MOREOne of the fun things I do every now and then is to bring up Zillow to check on houses for sale in our neighborhood, as well as those which have sold. Gives me a pretty good idea as to house prices around here, whether prices are increasing or decreasing, how long it takes to sell them, as well as … who the heck decided that particular interior design was a good idea and looked amazing? […]
READ MOREAbout 18 months ago, the motor in our garage door opener died suddenly. Ok, so it was 20 years old, hence no real surprise in a way, and it was fairly easy to get around until someone came to replace it: just detach the chain from the motor, and lift the garage door up and pull it down. Move over, exercise coach at the gym! […]
READ MORESometimes you just gotta laff. It seems that, as of Windows 11 version 22H2, the default for console apps is now Windows Terminal and not Windows Console. So what? you may ask. […]
READ MOREI have a set of static websites that I run on AWS (Amazon Web Services) and a bunch of sites that are essentially apps running on servers on Azure. The latter ones? No real issues, after all they’re written in C# and .NET which I’m kinda familiar with. The sites on AWS? Well, it’s been a hoot over the years. […]
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