Paypal phishing its own users
Well, not really. But they seem to think they are. Randy Abrams makes a serious point about user grooming and misleading autoresponses at...
View ArticleTop Ten Trite Security Blog Predictions
I started to blog this here, but decided it would be more annoying elsewhere. Tee-hee… http://preview.tinyurl.com/yfg4xcq David Harley FBCS CITP CISSP Chief Operations Officer, AVIEN Director of...
View ArticleThe Register: “Welcome to the out-of-control decade”
A disquieting article by Rik Myslewski that strikes some deep chords with me. :-/ “Waiting in the wings are corporate entities eager to exploit your personal information, and government agencies...
View ArticleBelated millennium bugs revisited.
In view of interest elsewhere, I revised and added some links at : http://www.eset.com/threat-center/blog/2010/01/06/millennium-falcon-crash-burn-revisited David Harley FBCS CITP CISSP Chief Operations...
View ArticleHaiti-Related Resources
Help resources, mostly: blogged at http://www.eset.com/threat-center/blog/2010/01/14/haiti-help-resources because there was an issue re security blogging in general to which I wanted to add my 2 cents....
View ArticleUnnamed App Facebook Hoax/Scam
Flagged by Peter Kruse on a specialist list. A hoax is circulating on Facebook, warning about a virus that is supposed to add an “Unnamed App” to the FB tabs. SEO actually drives the incautious Googler...
View ArticleAbout those alligators….
I don’t know what Peter Norton is up to these days. In the anti-virus industry, he’s probably best remembered for (a) the security products marketed by Symantec that still bear his name (though not...
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Blackhat SEO and other nuisances
The horrific Russian suicide bombings have, inevitably, generated a load of blackhat SEO (search engine optimization) attacks, not to mention Twitter profile attacks, using topical keywords to lure...
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Japan Disaster: Commentary & Resources
[Further links added March 13th 2011 (and a couple more on the same day). Extra links and commentary appended March 14th. More commentary re the Bing chaintweet subsequently added. And yet more on...
View ArticleSupport Scams – What to do next
My latest article for ESET’s WeLiveSecurity blog expands on an article that originally appeared in a lengthy article on support scams for ITSecurity UK, and subsequently in an article for the ESET...
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