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Cryptocurrency Scam Emails and Web Pages As We Enter 2026

Introduction In October 2025, a work colleague documented a cryptocurrency scam using a fake chatbot. After investigating this, I was able to receive messages from the campaign, and these emails have continued to land in my honeypot account since then. This diary documents the cryptocurrency scam campaign as it continues in 2026. Shown above: My…

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Recovery, JOMO and brain boosters

Ruth Clegg Health and wellbeing reporter Getty Images Wellbeing has become such a priceless (or in many cases pricey) endeavour that we can’t seem to get enough of it. Last year, we were mainlining magnesium, consuming creatine – a muscle boosting supplement that became mainstream, and we turned to AI chatbots for help with anything…

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Debugging DNS response times with tshark

One of my holiday projects was to redo and optimize part of my home network. One of my homelab servers failed in November. I had only thrown the replacement in the rack to get going, but some cleanup was needed. In addition, a lot of other “layer 1” issues had to be fixed by re-crimping some…

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