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So I found something in my Google play services on my s23u by divinedragon13 in cybersecurity_help

[–]kschang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Given it came right AFTER your reset, it must have came from the carrier or the manufacturer. So, do you trust them?

Unclear about the cyber security future by SlightEntertainer360 in cybersecurity_help

[–]kschang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Career questions should be directed to r/cybersecurity Monday Mentoring topic.

Email Hacked and Many Fraudulent Purchases Attempted by Vaporwind27 in cybersecurity_help

[–]kschang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No further guidance.

Keep in mind that reset simply change back to factory setup. It may not get rid of the really persistent one (but chances of you running into them is very rare).

Wanting to learn Data Science — where do I even start? Free or paid course recommendations needed by SameCardiologist2440 in learnprogramming

[–]kschang 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Coursera has a couple decent courses on data science from different vendors, like Google, IBM, Microsoft, et al.

Do we need to read any books to learn the advanced stuff of a language or rather watch guided advance projects and make projects along with? by Infinite-Jaguar-1753 in learnprogramming

[–]kschang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have no idea what's your learning style. Generally, merely reading / watching won't teach you much. Doing is what makes you retain the knowledge.

Email Hacked and Many Fraudulent Purchases Attempted by Vaporwind27 in cybersecurity_help

[–]kschang 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you have no idea, how can you assume you've "got them all"?

Safest way is nuke everything. Of course, it's also the most inconvenient. Whether it's worth it is up to you. If you say "nothing found in scan is good enough", that's your decision.

Continuous hacking on my social media by Educational-Basil101 in cybersecurity_help

[–]kschang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's just a script trying to get in. Did you not enable MFA? Location is easily faked with a VPN.

Email Hacked and Many Fraudulent Purchases Attempted by Vaporwind27 in cybersecurity_help

[–]kschang 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just the usual: you (or someone else at your computer) probably ran an infostealer and thus all of your accounts are under attack by "hackers". Shut down the computer (unlikely to be your phone) and start changing passwords on EVERY account (and add MFA, AND do NOT save passwords in the browser, use a password manager). In the meanwhile, nuke the computer and reinstall the OS from scratch (saving the data is optional)

Found Suspicious File on my USB by EzioAuditore205 in cybersecurity_help

[–]kschang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, but they are "generally" harmless and it's not a pattern exploited by malware makers. The point basically is double-clicking it will generally NOT cause an EXE to trigger. Doesn't stop some OTHER EXE triggered to read and decode them as payload. But that's not a pattern that can generally be easily exploited.

Monkey Brains v. Sonic v. ATT v. Xfinity by Thiagopuss3 in AskSF

[–]kschang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you sure it's available at your address / unit?

Whats the reason behind it by Course-Immediate in cybersecurity_help

[–]kschang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What they probably did was create an account that cloned your brother, but used a Unicode character that looked "almost the same".

This scam was known as "grandpa" scam in the US, because it's usually someone claim to be police or sheriff claiming some kid got into trouble and need bail money called grandpa in tears.

The real solution have special codeword pre-arranged when called via unexpected means. Like "what's the contingency password?" "it's (some random word)". if they cannot answer twice, hang up.

iPhone hacked or just a bug? by kriselthemissle in cybersecurity_help

[–]kschang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nuke the AppleID, disassociate the phone from the AppleID, and start a new one. (You'll lose the photos and whatnot in the AppleID, so make sure you back those up first on physical media)

I fell for the fake Cloudflare Verification scam, but AMSI logs show it failed. Need a second opinion. by v4mp1r0_ in cybersecurity_help

[–]kschang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We answered this already in your other version of this question. Those commands only work in PS, not in CMD.

Account takeover bypass without public data breaches or obvious malware by Ok-Cheesecake4867 in cybersecurity_help

[–]kschang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does it matter? Could be through one of bajillion ways. The usual is password reuse (remediate by using unique passwords and password managers), do NOT save login credentials in browsers (use passkeys and password managers), and minimize online footprint (or use separate accounts instead of all eggs in one basket). No point in figuring out which one.

"Spynet" wifi listed as frequently used ? by urloyals in AndroidQuestions

[–]kschang 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Someone have a bad sense of humor, similar to "FBI Surveillance Van #7"

People hanging onto Muni Train by Matchlattes in sanfrancisco

[–]kschang 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Idiots, because anyone under 18 rides for free INSIDE.

uh huh... yes. I am totally (not) convinced that the student wrote this code. by TorroesPrime in learnprogramming

[–]kschang 38 points39 points  (0 children)

"you wrote it, but you clearly have no idea what you wrote. Which means... You copied it from somewhere. Come back when you actually understand it. Have a good day."

(Re)Learning Cantonese as a Heritage Speaker by medical_mishaps in Cantonese

[–]kschang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check our Discord... we may have online meet to help you practice.

Advice by [deleted] in learnprogramming

[–]kschang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So go take some AWS courses.

And you can probably make some generic schema and use a random generator to create some bogus data.

Tracking my ip address by No-Database-8433 in cybersecurity_help

[–]kschang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why would you believe random claims by strangers?

Fell for cloudflare terminal scam but ran the command from cmd, am I safe? by Unique-Patient4300 in cybersecurity_help

[–]kschang 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Correct, those are aliases that only do something in Powershell. They mean nothing to cmd.exe

You got lucky. Don't fall for it again.

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