We've all suffered it. At some point in a developer's career there will be a day when everything goes tits-up, a site comes crashing down and the site owner isn't around to give FTP access or full server access. Sometimes, all we need is command line access 99 times out of a hundred, I won't even work on a site if the site owner doesn't provide server access but, occasionally, better judgement, years of experience and wisdom hoist their wares and take a family road-trip to some unreachable place. Take today, for example, I was troubleshooting a website for a friend. Nice easy job that I … [Read more...]
PayPal Email Scam Alert
Most email scams are easy to spot but there is a new PayPal email scam that's a lot better put together than the usual rubbish. The email looks very official and the stated purpose of the email is plausible. I can see a lot of people being caught out by it. The email subject reads 'Please update your information' and the sender's email address appears to as service@paypal.com, which masks Support@PayPal-banque.com. Here is what it says: We need your help Dear Customer, We need your help resolving an issue with your account. To give us time to work together on this, we've temporarily … [Read more...]