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My encounters with the Yi People (part 2)

In part one of this story I recounted how I had already visited the Kang family in Tsu Nan Guo, which is Maca, originally from South America is grown widely throughout the Yunnan highlands a small village tucked away behind Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, about an hour's drive out from Lijiang city. It [...]

By |2018-08-28T00:34:54+00:00August 22nd, 2018|Culture, Life Space|0 Comments

Encrypted email attachment malware. Some useful advice.

Here is a great article from the latest Emsisoft newsletter, to which I subscribe. It's about email malware and some tips on what to look out for when you receive encrypted document emails, in which the sender provides you with a password to open open and view the document. It's good reading. Click here to [...]

By |2018-07-23T06:10:56+00:00July 23rd, 2018|Professional Articles, Software, World of Work|0 Comments

I got Hacked. Now I am a lot smarter with passwords. Are you?

My personal website got hacked not so long ago. It fell victim to a sustained 'brute force' attack, bombarded by hacker bots for days until they finally got in. They must have thought that my site contained credit card information or personal details of clients. The web hosting platform took the site off line, which [...]

By |2018-07-18T05:57:02+00:00July 18th, 2018|Gadgets, Life Space, Software|0 Comments