My e-mail servers are being hit about 1,000 times a week with robots trying various username and password combinations. This is quite normal given the uncontrolled criminality we see online nowadays. There are many that are clearly working their way through a dictionary of known combinations, such as default passwords...
In 2010 I purchased items from an online store called Pooleys. It soon became apparent they had a security issue as I started to receive SPAM to the unique e-mail address assigned to them. Troy Hunt's amazing haveibeenpwned.com site also confirms the e-mail address is present in "Exploit.In" and "Collection...
Malicious actors are sadly everywhere these days so maintaining a good security posture for servers is essential. Last night I was enjoying watching this Mexican IP - 187.205.205.34 (dsl-187-205-205-34-dyn.prod-infinitum.com.mx) "lifting the door handles". You'd hardly call three to four attempts per minute a brute force attack. Perhaps it was to...
A decision by my Internet Service Provider (ISP) has left me perplexed. They produce monthly invoices in PDF format and deliver them to me via e-mail and are password-protected using "the last 4 digits of the phone number associated with your account". The password approach is made clear in each e-mail. It's...