Collaborate Disseminate
Remember fax machines? They used to be all the rage, and to be honest it was pretty cool to be able to send images back and forth over telephone lines. …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: Putting Pictures on the Wire in the 1930s
Throughout the 80s and 90s, you couldn’t swing a stapler around any size office without hitting a fax machine. But what is it about the fax machine that makes it …read more Continue reading Will the Fax Machine Ever Stop Singing?
The other day, a medical office needed my insurance card. I asked them where to e-mail it and they acted like I had offered them human flesh as an appetizer. …read more Continue reading Floppy Disk Sings: I’m Big in Japan
The XP computer is not directly connected to the internet. However, it is on the LAN where it holds analogue faxes for manual processing by staff. The other computers on the LAN are all Windows 10 computers. The entire LAN is behind a 3… Continue reading Is there a security threat to a Windows XP computer only being used as an analogue fax server?
In the last two years I am in a process of web application usage minimalism;
I have generally completely stopped using any web application for general communication besides my email account. For example, generally I won’t use:
Just a very quick post about a phishing scam this morning. This is only noteworthy because the phishing takes place on a compromised website belonging to a small Brazilian ISP. https://www.agilinker.com.br/ The email pretends to be a fax message from … Continue reading Phishing on a compromised Brazilian ISP via fake Fax email
Security researchers have found a way to remotely execute code on a fax machine by sending a specially crafted document to it. So… who cares about fax? Well apparently a lot of persons are still using it in many institutions, governments and industries, including the healthcare industry, legal, banking and …read more
Continue reading Faxsploit – Exploiting A Fax With A Picture
Security threats, data breaches and cyberattacks continue to rise within healthcare, financial, legal, government and hospitality industries. Whether it’s the Yahoo data breach affecting 3 billion accounts or the data breach of Marriott’s Starwood gue… Continue reading Fax or Email for Secure Document Delivery?
We are seeing massive changes with the Trickbot delivery campaign overnight. I have only seen 1 mention on Twitter about this campaign and 1 on a private malware research mailing list, so it can’t be affecting too many recipients. This example i… Continue reading Trickbot via fake Efax message using Squiblydoo, Active X, macro and abusing pastebin
The UK’s National Health Service, one of the highest-profile victims of last year’s devastating WannaCry ransomware attack, has pledged to phase out fax machines from its trusts by 2020. NHS made headlines in 2017 when its entire fleet of h… Continue reading Star WannaCry victim NHS to ban fax machines by 2020