“Did you order anything lately?” my wife asked me. “Not that I can think of,” I said. “We got this e-mail about a FedEx package that they couldn’t deliver on the 17th,” she said. “It has a ‘print receipt’ button.” Don’t click on that button.
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How to check to see if a FedEx or UPS e-mail message is real
Posted by Dave Farquhar on March 21, 2013
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2013/03/how-to-check-to-see-if-a-fedex-or-ups-e-mail-message-is-real/
Advice on dealing with ransomware
PC Mag has some advice about ransomware. The most important bit of advice is to have a secondary machine that you can use to go get help.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on February 8, 2013
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2013/02/advice-on-dealing-with-ransomware/
Beware of unexpected links in e-mail messages
Hackers are stealing Yahoo accounts by sending messages containing malicious web page links. The message looks like a link to a web page on MSNBC. But if an unsuspecting user clicks on it, it redirects to another page that steals the e-mail account, allowing the hacker to use the account to send spam, or grab [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on February 5, 2013
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2013/02/beware-of-unexpected-links-in-e-mail-messages/
Apply this fix if you aren’t running IE9
Windows XP users, and those running something older than IE9 on newer versions of Windows need to apply this fix immediately.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on January 3, 2013
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2013/01/apply-this-fix-if-you-arent-running-ie9/
Linus Torvalds is right about “reasonable resolution”
Linus Torvalds is sick of the gimmicks, and he’s really sick of laptops sporting cheap 720p displays. He wants high-resolution (2560×1600, or even 2048×1536) displays to become standard. Having seen an Ipad with a 2048×1536 display in person recently, I agree.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on December 7, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/12/linus-torvalds-is-right-about-reasonable-resolution/
There’s plenty of credit for the Internet to go around
There’s a crazy rumor going around saying that the government didn’t do much of anything to create the Internet, and that private industry did it all. I remember the Internet before the private sector got involved in it. I was there.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on July 25, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/07/theres-plenty-of-credit-for-the-internet-to-go-around/
Dave, have you seen this classmate?
This is a companion piece to Ken Floro’s The Southside Cavaliers vs. Vanishing Tom. I’m trying my best to write in someone else’s style and not get my keyboard (among other things) handed to me. In Ken’s story, I’m Hacker Dave. I accidentally spent my 16th birthday with Vanishing Tom. We both attended a school-sponsored [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on May 10, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/05/dave-have-you-seen-this-classmate/
Open-source licenses, the CISSP, and the real world
You may have a question about open-source licenses on your CISSP exam. I don’t remember the specifics and wouldn’t be able to repeat them anyway, but I had a question on my exam where knowing the differences was helpful in finding the right answer. And I had to deal with an issue this past week [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on February 4, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/02/open-source-licenses-the-cissp-and-the-real-world/
I may have a cure for the slow web browser
John C Dvorak lamented last week about slow web browsers. I’m working on a cure.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on January 18, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/01/i-may-have-a-cure-for-the-slow-web-browser/
Balancing safety and versatility
John C Dvorak has a very simple solution to the HP printing problem. Lock down the firmware so it’s not upgradeable. And while we’re at it, do the same thing to routers and other equipment. This solves the problem of loading rogue firmware on the devices, but there are several problems with such a draconian [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on December 2, 2011
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2011/12/balancing-safety-and-versatility/