Publications by Eric Niewoehner
Collection of articles on spam and scam
I recently received a message declaring “Your document is ready.” At the top of the message was the apparent sender: DocuSign. Alas, this scam was easy to break apart, but it can happen to even the most watchful. Several things will be looked at in this case: The Message Messages of this sort are effective…
Many have had their phones rendered useless because of robocalls and scammers. Can you solve that problem? Since the Internet has first emerged, people have had to deal with scammers at unprecedented levels whether it be e-mail or smartphones. No surprises here. As an IT specialist I was persistently working on solutions that would protect…
I love to write and, like most writers, have found it challenging to get the word out. It is rather easy to write something and “publish” it. I do it all the time. I have my own website, a Substack account and even a trial story posted on Kindle. Gosh – I am “publishing.” But…
So who ended up with my data when Parler went under?
Can somebody explain a brute force attack from a Microsoft IP address? Websites are easy targets for various network attacks simply because they are available to the public. What protects a website from being “hacked” is a rather thin veneer of passwords, strengthened by a range of firewall measures. WordPress, a popular platform on which…