Phishing by Phone
Friday, August 6th, 2010Last night Kathryn Allen posted a rather interesting story about an attempt at phone-based scareware. I’ve been dealing a lot with scareware on the job(s) the last couple of years. This is the kind of stuff that pops up as you’re visiting a website and tells you that your computer has 323 viruses found or [...]
Don’t Believe What You Read
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010One of my biggest pet peeves are those e-mail forwards that breathlessly purport outrageous facts, usually with the subtext of, “They’re all out to get us!” I remember particularly one which seemed popular when I was in college back in the late 90s that peddled screaming outrage over an effort by some atheist somewhere to [...]
Making Me Smile
Thursday, November 12th, 2009Like a stupid smiling thing, every time I watch it. Enjoy, if it does the same for you:
For Some Reason
Monday, May 4th, 2009The vast majority of my WordPress comment spam comes in to this post about Howard Tayler. Don’t know why–maybe because of his overwhelming popularity on the internets. In other blog housekeeping news, I’m going to add a Twitter plugin for the sidebar. And I upgraded to 2.7.1 on WordPress without a hitch. I’m digging the [...]