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Yet Another Security Breach

Posted by Chris Bird on Tuesday, December 1, 2015, In : Security 
In a trend that is becoming far too common lately, I have been the victim of another security breach due to an online service provider.

Sometime yesterday, an e-mail account that I had retired about five years ago became reactivated by someone telling the company that they were me and had forgotten the password as well as the answers to the security questions. In such cases, e-mail providers are supposed to refuse to re-activate the account.

Unfortunately in this case, someone at the email prov...
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Another Cyber-attack

Posted by on Sunday, May 24, 2015, In : Security 
It is 2:00am and I am looking at a minimum of another five hours of work to remove a nasty computer virus. That will teach me to be fully awake before hitting OK on a software update notification, and to carefully check its authenticity first. I need coffee...

There is also a very small chance that it could send e-mails out from my account. I am confident that I caught it in time, and I am certain that my address book was not compromised (it is on another system entirely) but just in case one ...
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No Phishing

Posted by on Monday, March 23, 2015, In : Security 
Apparently some security software has been warning people that my webpage has been reported for phishing. For those of you not familiar with the term, phishing is a scam in which people are fooled into submitting personal information or private banking information to a fake website. Sometimes these websites claim to be a bank or credit card company, or sometimes they are fake businesses.

However, as frequent visitors to my website are aware there is nothing here that requests information. Ever...
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Cyberbullying

Posted by on Saturday, March 21, 2015, In : Security 
I must say that I am sorry to have to write this article, because it involves the darkest of personalities and people who are too cowardly to confront their foes. These are the sort of people that some in the psychiatry field refer to as "evil". And unfortunately, I seem to be their target.

As such I feel that an explanation is in order, to give those who are interested in truth the testimony they need to make their own judgements of other things that have been said or written in the past.

Near...
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Chris Bird I am a theoretical physicist and mathematician, as well as an unpaid caregiver. In the past I have also been a computer programmer, roboticist, author, web designer, and countless other titles too numerous to list.

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