I received the following email from our address on a clients system (with their email domain name redacted): From: denise@chefspecialties.com [mailto:denise@chefspecialties.com] Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2016 6:36 AM Subject: Re: unknown charge on my card What is this $816.27 charge on my credit card? It shows this amount charged by <REDACTED DOMAIN NAME>. Please check …
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Attached scan doc
The other day a client received the below email with an attached .html file (“dropbox file share.html”): From: Jonathan Wunrow [mailto:jonwunrow@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 11:33 AM Subject: Attached scan doc See the Attached quote file — Make it a Great Day! Jonathan Wunrow Program Manager/Grant Writer Cell – (907) 617-9956
Good morning – malicious Javascript attachment
A friend received an email titled “Good morning” with the following contents: I was visting your webpage on 5/5/2016 and I’m interested. I’m currently looking for work either full time or as a volunteer to get experience in the field. Please look over my Resume and let me know your thoughts. Regards, — Chaitanya Prabhat …
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Windows computers and Adak time & timezones
The Issue A few weeks ago, I ran into an issue where time on computers in Adak (an island in the Aleutian Islands, in Alaska) were completely wrong after Daylight Savings. Adak is 1 hour behind the rest of Alaska (per Wikipedia, and the client), but was now 2 hours behind.
Nagios check_esxi_hardware CRITICAL: Execution time too long!
Today I ran into a Nagios check that had shown status “UNKNOWN” with output “CRITICAL: Execution time too long!” for the check_esxi_hardware check. The server and ESXi system all seemed to be functioning just fine, and no updates had been applied between it working and the new “UNKNOWN” status.