9 out of 10 Phishing Emails Distribute Ransomware We’ve been asked many times how people get ransomware, so we thought it might be a good idea to write an article about ransomware and how it’s distributed – and why it’s spreading like wildfire. Ransomware is everywhere these days, so it’s becoming harder and harder to hide from it.… Read More »
Cloudeight InfoAve Premium Issue #691 Cloudeight InfoAve Premium Newsletter, Issue #691, January 6, 2017 is available online right now. If you’re not yet a subscriber, you can get a free subscription here. We NEVER share your email address with anyone! We’d love to welcome you as a new subscriber. Here are some of the things we feature in… Read More »
Cash for Your Gift Cards This tip is for everyone in the USA who has gift cards they don’t want While I certainly appreciate EB’s thoughtfulness, I really have no need for the Victoria’s Secret or Mandy’s Manicure gift cards she gave me for Christmas. If you’ve received gift cards you know you’ll never use, and you don’t… Read More »
Shodan – Search Engine for the IoT As most of you know, Google, Bing, Yahoo and other popular search engines, crawl the Web looking web pages, images and other types of files. But there are other types of search engines too. Today, we’re going to tell you about a search engine for the IoT (Internet of Things), called “Shodan”.… Read More »
Winter The Christmas decorations are packed away for another year. The streets that were bright with lights and decorations have faded back to their dark and cold countenance. It’s no longer Christmastime. It’s no longer “the Holidays”. It’s now just winter – and it’s time I faced up to it. Winter is death incarnate. Its bleak sullen skies… Read More »
Have I Been Pwned? NOTE: 21 FEBRUARY 2020 We are no longer recommending this site however we’ve decided to leave this post on our site. All readers are cautioned to take any results obtained from Have I Been Pwned with skepticism. EB is pretty cool, she knows all the hacker terms like pwned and crack. I don’t know… Read More »