Posts Tagged ‘Phishing’

Phishing is Phutile!

I was in a conversation this week with someone else in the online security space and I happened to mention that I think Tricerion’s Safe Login is pretty darn sweet. He was a proponent of a keyfob token that additionally used a USB chord and a card too. Yikes. That’s too complicated for me. In [...]

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Twitter’s been phished!

2 of my 3 Twitter accounts asked me to reset my password this morning when I signed in. It seems that a third party application may have compromised accounts, but stories abound about what really happened.
What I can tell you is that I know enough about where to share my passwords that I didn’t accidentally [...]

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Squeezing some browser sense from the Google-China phishing incident

A few days ago Google decided to shut down its operations in China after a spear phishing attack directed towards Chinese human rights activists, as well as attempts to steal some of Google’s intellectual property.   It is presumed that the attackers sent exploit-ridden PDF attachments in emails to Google employees, thus attempting to gain access [...]

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Authenticating Mobile Apps

Everyone is excited about the new Google phone – Nexus One. I am actually considering making the jump from iPhone to an Android-based phone. The Android Market is the Google’s answer to iTunes App store.
In an interesting twist of events, a rogue app called “Droid09” was uploaded to Android Market, claiming to be [...]

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