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Agent Dana Sally

I just checked my spam folder and found this gem. Enjoy. FBI- Criminal Justice Information Services Division Address: 26 Federal Plaza, New York, NY 10278, USA Hello. I am Mrs Dana Sally from FBI unit,i have been instructed by our FBI Director Christopher Wray, to inform you that out of our thorough investigation lately ,we foundContinue reading “Agent Dana Sally”

Lose your Time Warner Internet connection (again)? You could try Open DNS | Technology | Los Angeles Times

If you live in Greater Los Angeles and are fed up with Time Warner Cable, there’s probably not much you can do about it (unless you’re the L.A. city attorney, in which case you can sue). The frequent outages, slow customer service and small number of high-definition channels are a fact of life. But theContinue reading “Lose your Time Warner Internet connection (again)? You could try Open DNS | Technology | Los Angeles Times”

Register.com suffers DNS problems

Register.com’s nameservers seem to have been the target of a adDoS attack, whatever that is. (A)synchronous? (A)symmetrical? I need to look into that. Whatever caused the outage last night seems to continue to be causing problems this afternoon – either that or there are bad records cascading now. It’s on Twitter too.

Nookie Reimbursement Eludes TWC Customers

On the Time Warner Cable front, it appears this morning that some of their internet service customers are still experiencing DNS problems. Over the weekend TWC television subscribers were offered a special on the OnDemand movie rental service. The One Cent Movies On Demand offer was supposed to allow subscribers the chance to rent aContinue reading “Nookie Reimbursement Eludes TWC Customers”

TWC DNS Outage. Again.

Ever seeking to reinforce their appearance of ineptitude, Time Warner Cable has stopped resolving DNS requests again today. It must be that time of the month for them. One month ago to the day Forbes ran an article about how their DNS servers are still vulnerable to attack. I’ve bypassed this by using public DNSContinue reading “TWC DNS Outage. Again.”