Collaborate Disseminate
I received an email at work the other day from a client (with the correct email address) that had a pdf attached. When I opened the pdf, it said the client had required the recipient to login to outlook in order to view it. I attempted to … Continue reading How to inspect for potential malware on pdf attachment?
I received an email yesterday supposedly from the IRS. Since I was expecting to hear from the IRS, I paid attention to it and found it had an htm attachment. I didn’t open it, but I’m curious how this code could hurt me if I had opened it…. Continue reading Can the included (pasted into the body) html code hurt me? [closed]
We have a software that sends out invoices by email. As the invoices contain the names of the clients and their addresses we consider the invoice to be sensitive to some degree.
Rather than sending out the actual file we provide the client… Continue reading Email with an attached file vs. email with a link to a file
Sometimes I receive email messages from organisations I’m involved with saying something like:
Alice at AnyCo has sent you a secure message
Along with a link to access said message. Sometimes I’m then asked to create an account. The last… Continue reading Is there any security benefit from emailing a "secure link"?
I messed up… I opened the htm file using chrome and entered my password… Upon realising that it wasn’t a legit attachment, I immediately changed my Microsoft account password. However, I don’t understand the code inside the .htm script… Continue reading I mistakenly clicked an .htm attachment from an spam email, help?
What security is gained from this procedure? What does this procedure accomplish? Many professionals do this, like government officials and lawyers.
First, they email me the attachment (e.g. PDF, Word file, Excel spreadsheet). And they wri… Continue reading What’s the point of password protecting your document in a 1st email, then writing the password in a 2nd email within 5 minutes?
Could one malicious email attachment contaminate all attachments in my cloud email account? There are various preview functionalities available in Gmail or Microsoft Outlook that would effectively interpret attachments like images or PDFs … Continue reading Could one malicious email attachment contaminate all attachments in my cloud email account?
A heic file was sent to me via email. Is it possible to know when that particular heic file is created by the original user?
Continue reading How to know details of a particular file? [migrated]
Here’s the text from that e-mail (no subject)
31725714 65
TJBPYEW YBTLI UNILPW FPW J II
NSWKW LGKJQBS PVGVQX ZEWW WQUWFZ VT
Here’s the code from the attachment I extracted with Notepad++:
https://pastebin.com/Fv9JPmu3
Being curious, I use… Continue reading Got an e-mail with weird text and an .htm attachment. What does it do?
Most common email services don’t allow to attach file like exe files, or similar files that may contain security threats to a computer.
This can be bugging for users, but I can understand that, in general, the benefits are likely to outwei… Continue reading Is there any security risk in sending a dangerous file via email to oneself?