Sean Whalen

How the Parler data was legally acquired by activists

The Parler data dumps you've heard were obtained legally. Here's how they did it.

January 13, 2021

Ohio’s absentee ballot system disenfranchises disabled voters. Let’s fix that before November.

I was born with cerebral palsy — neurological damage from a lack of oxygen to the brain at birth. Each…

April 30, 2020

How to forward a forensic copy of an email as an attachment

If you receive a fraudulent email, can be very useful to send a full forensic copy to an organization that…

August 28, 2019

How to view email headers

Email headers contain very useful information for tracing a message's origin and troubleshooting its delivery. Email headers are written with…

August 27, 2019

Proofpoint is requiring their customers to pay for Email Fraud Defense to get aggregate DMARC data from their gateways

I have written extensively about the DMARC email security standard, including publishing a comprehensive guide on how to implement it,…

June 4, 2019

Emotet malspam campaign exploits reliance on magic for file type detection

Emotet is a Trojan designed to steal banking information. It is frequently spread by sending phishing emails to governments, banks,…

January 26, 2019

How to inspect the certificate of a mail server over a CLI

If you ever need to inspect the certificate of a remote SMTP server, you can use the openssl CLI tool.…

November 29, 2018

Demystifying DMARC: A guide to preventing email spoofing

DMARC can stop spoofed spam and phishing from reaching you and your customers, protecting your information security and your brand.…

June 15, 2018

How to compile and install FFmpeg on Debian/Ubuntu

Here's how to build and install FFmpeg from source with all the bells and whistles (i.e codec support).  We'll install…

June 5, 2018

Stop the ADA Education and Reform Act

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 (amended in 2008) is a bipartisan law that sets accessibility standards that…

February 10, 2018