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Are you familiar with the terms smishing and vishing? They’ve been around for a few years now, but they’re not as common as email phishing and haven’t been given as much attention. Both smishing and vishing are variations on the phish theme: smishing...
*** DO NOT FOLLOW ANY OF THESE INSTRUCTIONS – LINK FUNCTIONALITY IN THIS POST HAS BEEN DISABLED *** I received an email from the FBI Director today, I thought it might be fun to publish it to my blog. I am publishing the Plain Text version of the email...
Ehrich Weiss, better known by his stage name Harry Houdini, died in a Detroit hospital on this day in 1926. A student asked Houdini if it was true that he could accept blows to the stomach without harm. Houdini said yes, and the student punched him in...
As many of you know I don’t normally post urban legends or hoaxes on my blog; especially since there are plenty of legitimate sites that do this already (i.e. http://www.snopes.com , http://urbanlegends.about.com , etc…); however when I receive the email...
As many of you know I receive hundreds of emails a day and many of them are "forwards" from friends who just have to know if something is real or not. I received one from a member of my family today that shows a video (see below) in which a...