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 ...
Helpful Hackers
Checking in on Facebook much too late last night, I noticed an invitation to connect from someone who is already a Facebook friend, so, as I always do, I sent them a ...
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 ...
Google TLDs: some security controversy
I’ve been seeing a certain amount of panic about Google’s inclusion of .zip and .mov in its recent launch of eight new Top Level domains (TLDs). While I don’t think adding to ...
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 ...
Phish Philtering
[This is an article – slightly edited – that was originally posted on the now defunct itsecurity.co.uk. I was reminded, a blog page to which a number of security researchers contributed articles ...
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 ...
Susceptibility to phishing
The more you know about phishing, the likelier you are to fall for it? Really? ...
Green Card scams & Tech Support scams
Interesting article comparing green card scams and tech support scams where the fake site looks more authentic than the real thing ...
