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Course Sneak Peek: Anti-Scam Training
We are hard at work getting our Computer Basics course updated and ready for a wider audience. Having worked with so many different communities and individuals over the past few years, we've identified a lot of ways to improve the content based on feedback and watching people grow. Without further posturing, here is a very small part of the course materials we've prepared, I hope you find it useful and that it can help people when they need it most.
Luc Labonte
Apr 231 min read


Time To Check Your Password
Time To Read: 2 minutes Target Technical Level: Low Time To Play With The Password Checker: ~10 minutes I am delighted to announce that we have created a secure password checker. So if you want to know why " Pa$$w0rd " takes less than a second to get into and " ETSLSG's new toy " would take a while ( 142 million years ) for a government funded program? Keep reading below. --> Click here to check it out <--- The new password checker takes into consideration the top 5000
Luc Labonte
Apr 81 min read


Identify who is really sending you an email
Time To Read: 6 minutes Target Technical Level: Low OS: Windows, Android, iOS, Linux -- Just take me to the point -- A long time ago, we used to get really excited to receive mail, it was before digital mail had really taken a major place in our lives, and it had 3 major forms: A letter from someone you know - this would make your day. Bills. Junk mail - ads, soliciting, etc. We have a tendency to trust mail as it shows us who sent the letter, which includes their personal
Luc Labonte
Mar 239 min read


Understanding This Windows Verification Exploit
The trigger: "Press & hold the Win key + R" — This is where alarm bells should sound off for some of us, we'll explain why
Luc Labonte
Mar 33 min read


A Dive Into Why Misinformation Works
Technical Knowledge Level: Low Time to read: 15 minutes This is an immense topic, to the extent that we are building a course about it. It ranges from lies to propaganda to marketing, and the numerous bodies that exist to perpetuate that information, or those that find the truth. Where it gets complicated is that humans are a species that are heavily dependent on the information passed down from generation to generation, and will usually only believe what they choose to belie
Luc Labonte
Feb 206 min read


Identify & Avoid Common This Blackmail Scam
One of the oldest scams in history is blackmail, it functions on exploiting and leveraging evidence of someones shameful actions to gain a foot hold with that person, usually for financial gain. While they are varied, the main different in our current age, is that individuals are often blackmailed without actually having done anything, or without the blackmailer actually having any actual evidence. One of the best examples is the "we have incriminating photos of you", usual
Luc Labonte
Feb 51 min read


The New Site Is Live! What Are Our Next Steps?
If you are reading this, you have found the new site and it's working properly. We wanted to create something that could grow with us, as well as being easy to use, safe and secure. This new site removes a lot of potential issues with the human error aspect of security, which would be us making a mistake and causing harm -- unintentionally -- to the people using the site. As we are still stuck with a lack of funding, getting a lot of our programs that require funding to ope
Luc Labonte
Jan 261 min read


Let's Talk About Your Passwords... 2026 edition
It's a brand new year and I hope everyone had a safe and restful holiday! Now, I just wanted to give you all a little stress to get you back into the swing of things. Here is the list of most common passwords for 2025 : https://nordpass.com/most-common-passwords-list/ If you have a business or personal password on that list, the amount of time it takes to get into that account is less than a second. Depending on your M ulti F actor A uthentication method in place, it can b
Luc Labonte
Jan 72 min read


Why "Pay us with Gift Cards" is a red flag
A quick tip about scammers requesting money in the form of gift cards.
Luc Labonte
Dec 22, 20251 min read
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