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WordPress Brute-Forced!
In the last couple of days, I received many invalid login alerts from one of my clients’ WordPress site — Someone was trying, desperately, to log into my client’s WordPress dashboard using invalid usernames and/or passwords. The “desperation” (i.e. large number of login attempts within a very short period of time) and the fact that
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Cleaning Up Messy LaunchPad (The Geeky Way)
I was installing and updating apps on my MacBookPro, and accidentally dragged an .app file into a sub-folder in the Application folder (which it doesn’t belong). That inevitably created a duplicate icon for the app in the LaunchPad. After cleaning up my mess in the Application folder and moved everything into their right places —
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Can you spot a phishing email?
Phishing and scam emails come in all shape and sizes, but all of them look at least somewhat legit… Do you know how to spot them? Thing to look for (i.e. red flags) when spotting phishing and scam emails: What else? If you can think of any other tricks to spotting phishing and scam email,
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