Articles tagged with "password"

Your Skeptics Society Needs You

22 February 2021

For those of you who like the work we do enough that you want to support us financially, it's that time of the year when membership subscriptions are due. Membership is only $40, or $20 if you're unwaged, and the money we receive will be spent on worthy causes, allowing us to help make New Zealand a more skeptical place.

Have I been hacked?

14 October 2018

The other day I received an ominous email telling me that I have malware installed on my PC as a result of visiting porn sites, and that I need to cough up £850 so that my sordid life isn't made public:

Tracking a Russian hacker

1 August 2017

I had just arrived at work, and in my email inbox I saw that I had received an email from Mighty Ape (an online store) saying that I had a $100 voucher on order. That's odd, I thought. No, I'm sure that I didn't order it by mistake at 3am. I then thought it may have been a free gift. I had bought a number of gifts for Christmas from Mighty Ape, so maybe I had won something. I searched around on the net and checked to see if there were any competitions or freebies going on, but I couldn't see any hits.