The Danger Well, someone, somewhere, gave out the domain ?oogle.com to someone who was not representing google.com. what is stopping them from mimicking YOUR web site, or YOUR BANK’s website, and then leaving innocent-looking links for you to fall prey to? You would probably never realize what you did until it was tool late. Internationalized Domain…
The Burgeoning Business Cost of E-mail tags: MM LitSupport Schneier on Internet of Things Security: “It’s Going to Come Crashing Down” tags: MM Security Litigators Who Don’t Know Enough About E-Discovery Should Be Afraid, Very Afraid tags: MM LitSupport The 2015 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report is Out! –“23% of recipients open phishing messages and…
Sure, I get why Google would make certain features available in Chrome and try to protect it’s users from phishing, browser highjacking, and drive by download attempts. But one of the security features also assures that I have to keep some other browser available on any machine. When staying at a hotel or other place…
As many of you know, I am currently in Norway due to a work engagement. I arrived yesterday morning, after a day of traveling and an overnight flight. Obviously, as an iPhone and iPad user, I was making good use of free wi-fi when it was available in airports and at the hotel after my…
So here’s a good one. Angela logged in to her MySpace account to send a message to a friend of hers. When she did, it gave her an error about the spam filter, then she was prompted to change her password because her account had been phished, which it hadn’t. Stay with me on this…
Matthew from the company that makes Mailwasher sent me an email to let me know about their new product, an IE toolbar called Sitehound: The SiteHound toolbar is your first line of defense against internet threats including phishing, scams, spyware, adware, security risks and viruses from rogue websites. SiteHound is free to use, or you…