Introducing… The Security Curmudgeon

March 14, 2011

While I take security and business protection very seriously, I do like to have a little fun while I work. Sometimes I enjoy writing stuff that blasts serious holes in business practices and products that others are releasing — even if the product is being released by a friend. But I’m not, by nature, a [...]

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Aweber Tracking Links In Spam Email (NOT From Aweber)

March 10, 2011

Just a quick post to tell you about a new spamming tactic I saw today. From what I can tell, a spammer has written a legitimate email within the Aweber autoresponder system and set it up so that it would send out a tracking link. They then took the tracking link and put it in [...]

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Domain Name Appraisal Scam

February 22, 2011

Gene Pimentel (I’m pretty sure he’s the one on the left in that picture…) does domain names for a living. Gene has posted a warning about domain name appraisal scams that is worth taking a moment to read. Gene says that he has “NEVER been asked for an appraisal from a legitimate prospect” and that [...]

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Open Office Security Fixes

January 28, 2011

Just a very quick note to let you know that the OpenOffice team has released an update (Version 3.3) that addresses several security issues. These issues affect Versions 2 and 3 of OpenOffice; older versions were not tested because they are no longer supported. If you use OpenOffice, you should upgrade to the latest version [...]

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Dumb Things That Spammers Do, Part 3,000,002 (Plus A Lesson For You)

December 4, 2010

This “spam slap” will be a quick one because the clueless spammer slapped themselves… Yes, they were VERY sloppy in their approach… First, for whoever owns the URL that this link leads to, fix your form so spammers can’t use it to "recommend" stuff. If you have some type of form that lets somebody send [...]

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Private Comments (No, He’s Not In The Military…)

November 26, 2010

I’ve recently purchased a WordPress plugin that allows for private comments. If you want to leave a comment that only you and I will see, simply click on the box to the left of, “Make this comment private” (just below the comment entry box) and only you and I will see it. I also realized [...]

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Penny Stock Prophet: My Opinion

November 21, 2010

Please: Notice the word “opinion” in the title. What I am about to write in this post is based on my professional opinion and on dealing with similar situations in the past. I have started doing some trading in the options exchanges (practice only for now). If it works, I’ll talk more about it — [...]

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Have A Security Question? Please Let Me Know!

November 16, 2010

If you have a GENERAL security question and would like to have it answered here on this blog, please leave a comment with your question or contact me via my contact form at ProtectorSupport.com. If it’s a good fit for this blog, I’ll be happy to give you my professional opinion on the subject. Please [...]

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Google Buzz Class Action Settlement Announced — Scams Certain To Follow

November 2, 2010

As a Gmail user in the United States, I just received an email that Google was obligated to send as a part of their class action lawsuit settlement regarding the way they introduced Google Buzz this past winter. The web site for the settlement is here and the PDF document that describes the settlement in [...]

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The “You Already Have Enrollees And Paid Members” Spam Scam Slap

September 21, 2010

I haven’t done a spam slap for a while and I found an interesting looking “candidate” in my Inbox today. So without further ado… Here’s the subject: Payment Recieved from MakingYouRichier Oh, yeah, I always wanted to be “richier”… And the first line: You ALREADY have 3,839 Pre-Enrollees and 22 Paid Members in YOUR TEAM [...]

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