InfoSecWise

I’ve started this blog in order to be able to help regular people who might not be very tech savvy (Mom, I’m looking at you), and might be more prone to being scammed or lied to. That being said, I will try to explain this in the most layman way possible. I was going to start with explaining what phishing is, but maybe I will dedicate a whole post just to that, and just give you the basics on what and how you need to check, without needing to know what it’s technically called and what kind of technology it […]

So, I have received a PayPal invoice from GoDaddy today that I need to pay $62 for renewal of one of my domain names. Which fair enough, I thought to be a legitimate request. First of all to start with, when you receive an email from anyone and you have even the slightest suspicion, check where it’s coming from from. In my case, it did come from paypal.co.uk, so, first check is OK. But that’s probably the only thing legitimate about this. I am wondering who this SHAUTFBD is? It does look suspicious, but maybe it’s a trading name that […]