Security and the (in)Human Element
This weekend a friend of mine was caught by yet another Facebook social engineering security event. It was a run of the mill phishing attack, and his credentials were compromised and scores of messages were sent out. The messages were simple “It’s you in this video?” with a fake link to Youtube (see image). This […]
WannaCry as a security belweather?
WannaCrypt: A test for an organization’s security posture? A week after the news about the WannaCry (WannaCrypt) ransomware attacks, the security companies FUD and the general misunderstanding of the root cause of this supposed nightmare – where are we and what exactly have we learned? Other than I am ranting more about it? Where are we? […]
WannaCry in my beer
WannaCry or the Cyber-Event that should never have happened Ok, the WannaCry tears are drying and InfoSec and IT professionals around the world are catching up on sleep lost over the weekend. A fair number of them are probably, like me, wondering how this became so ugly and so widespread. While I know this cyber event had […]
Hosted email and/or spam filtering?
Did someone say SPAM?!? Updated at end of article 22June2015 So, I’ve been using the same web hosting provider for about 10 years and love the service and people… the one thing I am not digging is the tools available for spam filtering … Long story short – I’m in the market for a spam […]