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• 14-Jan-2024

  
  Email of the Day: 23andMe I’m a fan of 23andMe. Which is to say, I appreciated the cost and speed with which they provided data about my own genetic makeup. It meant a lot to me and my family. I wrote about that in my comic which talks about my background. But it’s no fun to get an email about...
• 05-Nov-2023
  Thanks Repo-Lookout! I get a pile of email that is worse than useless, but I just got one that was great! Repo Lookout: Repo Lookout is a large-scale security scanner, with a single purpose: Find source code repositories that have been inadvertently exposed to the public and report them to the domain’s technical contact. The email looked...
• 22-Feb-2018

  
  Suspicious Activity: “An admin user with the username backup was created outside of WordPress” On 14 February 2018, WordFence alerted me to highly suspicious behavior. This is the format of the email I received from WordFence version 4.9.3: This email was sent from your website “[REDACTED BLOG NAME]” by the Wordfence plugin. Wordfence found the following new issues on “[REDACTED BLOG NAME]”. Alert generated at Wednesday 14th of February...