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Thoughts from a Need
Clicker To
Author: Tiny Ruisch, Member, Cajun Clickers Computer
Club, LA Know
August 2019 issue, CCCC Computer News
www.clickers.org
tsa70785 (at) gmail.com
This month I’m going to rant, rave, criticize and BLUF: A hacking group has tar-
complain just a little. About a year ago, before I geted U.S. veterans through a
moved to the Baton Rouge area, my wife and I fake hiring website hosting mal-
were in one of the home improvement stores. I
thought that it would be a good time to pick up a ware. The hacking unit, known as
new water filter for our refrigerator. I went over Tortoiseshell, created the "Hire
to appliances and told them I needed a new fil- Military Heroes" website. The site
ter for a Whirlpool. He immediately asked me encourages users to download
which of the nine filters I needed. Of course, I an app that exposes computers to
didn’t have the filter number memorized. So, I
found our refrigerator on the sales floor and told "spying tools" and other malware.
the salesman, “One to fit that model.” I got
home and found that it was the wrong size filter. Ref:
When I went back to exchange it, I found out https://www.newsweek.com/
that a different model year almost always uses tortoiseshell-hacker-hire-military-
a different filter.
heroes-fake-webs
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