Category Archives: email-attachments

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?→

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?→