The Anatomy of a Homegate Scam
2025 Zürich Area Edition Homegate is the primary platform for advertising properties for sale and rent in Switzerland. Many such platforms do have scammers trying to con victims out of their money and Homegate is…
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Hello, I’m contacting you regarding an urgent matter that demands your immediate attention.You have an opportunity to address this situation, but prompt action is essential. I have installed advanced spyware, referred to as Candid, on…
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The Enshittification of Sextortion, because they can Another day, another email to an old, never-used email address of mine. Hi, I am a hacker, and I have successfully gained access to your operating system.I also…
The Flipper Zone & Hotel Cardkeys
Copy your own hotel keys The Flipper Zero is able to copy many hotel room keys, depending on how secure they have made their system. The information here is purely based around a stay in…
Initial Thoughts on the Flipper Zero
First Thoughts Out of personal interest, I decided to get a Flipper Zero and have been playing with the firmware options available as well as trying to clone certain devices and cards I have. The…
rockyou2024 – it’s a mess
A collection of passwords with no context; it’s not even a decent rainbow table A lot of hype has been made around the “rockyou2024.txt” file that contains nearly 10 billion lines of records (the unpacked…
Fwd: (Sextortion email with great subject!)
Someone pressed Send without testing… Hello! I am a professional coder, and I hacked your device’s OS when you were visiting an adult website. Hmm, this reminds me of somebody…. I have been watching your…
I own very sensitive information about your web activities
Here we go again….. Greetings!<br> <br> Greetings <br> indeed! I will, however, remove the rest of your <br> tags from the rest of your message as it seems to make it hard to read. First…
Solving the BSOD on a Microsoft Surface Pro 7
And getting back some performance! Having had nearly 5 years with my Surface Pro 7, I believe I know this device inside and out. It’s been 18 months since I had any BSOD on the…
ICANN Steal Your Password
Phishing for Passwords using FUD Objects in my spam folder can often be interesting and worthy of investigation. This week, a corker came in under the pretence that it was from ICANN for one of…
Decrapifying the Microsoft M365 Installation
Goodbye, Office365 Enshittification with OneNote Anyone who has Microsoft Office365 knows that the installation is not easily user-customisable and you therefore get applications you do not want – in my case, OneNote. It’s not so…
Microsoft Recall: The Fall of the Keyboard?
Microsoft announced Copilot+ PCs and functionality at their Build 2024 developer conference. Once feature of Copilot+ is Recall, a system by which Windows will record what you are doing so that you can, well, recall…