Month: October 2011
you are lied to between 10 and 200 times per day
According to LieSpotting author Pamela Meyer, we live in a sea of deception, lying and being lied to dozens if not hundreds of times per…
can a handicap be an advantage for an attacker?
An interesting post from http://www.social-engineer.org asks whether an attacker with a visible handicap (real or simulated) has an advantage in getting your users to give…
security wtf of the week
Here is a textbook description of what companies should NOT do when someone privately reports a security vulnerability in their publicly available web site which…
how malware gets in
The latest edition of Microsoft’s Security Intelligence Report provides some interesting analysis as to how computers get infected with malware. Microsoft’s dataset is pretty large,…
elephant repellent
Sometimes I feel like I’m selling elephant repellent: I identify a particular species of elephant (for example, compromise of our networks due to spearphish delivered…
some hotel safes not so… safe
You might want to watch this video before trusting your valuables to a hotel room “safe…” The evil unchanged default password strikes again!
the 80 percent solution
According to a study published by Danish security vendor CSIS… When a Microsoft Windows machine gets infected by viruses/malware it does so mainly because users…
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