Random Musings - Day #73

Confidence Trickster
There has been a spate of mobile insurance frauds. About 10 companies have been involved cold-calling punters selling mobile insurance. The trick is that the fraudsters have bought new mobile phones and dial up numbers similar to their own. Chances the number are new. So they claim they are the mobile operator or from the shop they bought the phone, offering cheap insurance.
Always be careful when you get cold calls and cold emails. Don't give out details. In fact, ask to phone back!

Dating Review
Stumbled upon this dating agency review.

Shell Tidbit
Here's a nice little tutorial that I found for generating numbers from a for-loop in a unix shell.

Windows Tidbits
1. The old IIS unicode exploit!
2. How to restrict access to the registry from a remote computer.
3. How to prevent Windows from storing a LAN manager hash of your password in Active Directory and local SAM databases.

Random Musings - Day #47

Travel Insurance
Oh yes, I have not been impressed with the travel insurance advertised on moneysupermarket.com and the reviews for travel insurance companies are nothing to right home about. It looks like a total minefield. Naturally the problems will start when a claim is made. I used to use Atlas Direct but the reviews particularly for claiming are poor. I decided to get OUL Direct.