Eclectic Lip: The biology of phishing

Some nefarious group recently made a phishing attempt against me, trying to lure me into providing bank account information in response to an Official Looking email. Presumably, the combination of spam filters and alert consumers means phishing has a very, very low success rate.  Fortunately for criminals, email has virtually no incremental

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EclecticLip: Training week…

(originally written Jan 25)

I’m in training pretty much the whole week — which fact one of my horoscopes must’ve predicted.  I mean, there are so many of them floating out there, that one of them must’ve been right!
 
The past couple days covered FMEA, an engineering topic so obscure I’ll give the unabbreviated name (Failure Modes […]

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