David Harley
Antisocial Media and Critical National Infrastructure
[For some reason I posted this several months ago on my Dataholics blog, when this one might have been at least as obvious a place to put it. I haven’t anything new ...
Scam callers and spoofed telephone numbers.
One of the consequences of the ease with which a phone number can be spoofed, combined with the fact that scammers tend to know more about you than the tech support scammers ...
Scam Intercepters – some thoughts
Despite no longer being paid to provide consultancy to the IT security industry, I couldn’t resist catching up with an interesting BBC initiative called Scam Interceptors. Having been appalled in the past ...
Abusing Communities
I may need to give up social media altogether. I can’t seem to avoid seeing scams in all directions, and I can’t seem to ignore them, even though writing about this stuff ...
Clone Wars Revisited – Facebook Friend Requests
Caveat: while I spent over 30 years in IT security, and though I often wrote about Facebook’s failings in that area over that time, I don’t have intimate knowledge of its inner ...
Normal service suspended indefinitely
For the present, I’m not working in the security industry, so I shan’t be maintaining this blog, though I’ll keep it intact for the present in case people still find some use ...
Krebs/Sager interview on supply chain security
Brian Krebs interview with Tony Sager, on supply chain security ...
Android anti-spoofing
Hacker News: Android Gets New Anti-Spoofing Feature to Make Biometric Authentication Secure David Harley Advertisements ...
Android insecurity & spyware targeting Uyghur population.
The Register: Exposed: Lazy Android mobe makers couldn’t care less about security “Never. Is never a good time to get vulnerability fixes? Never is OK with you? Cool, never it is” Graham ...
