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Phishing the night away

16

Sep

2011

Today I identified several phishing emails targeting the Royal Bank of Canada’s customers: The above phish is the classic trick of sending you to a fake banking site and have you type your personal information (social engineering). On the opposite, the following phish aims at having you run a file (social engineering + malware infection): […]

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Which browser is the most secure?

15

Sep

2011

Recently, NSS Labs, a US-based testing company has performed a comparative review of several Internet browsers in order to determine which one provides the best protection against socially engineered malware. Interestingly, the results seem to indicate that Internet Explorer 9 provides the best protection rates of all the tested products (which included Firefox 4 and […]

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Transitive trust and SSL certificate verification

13

Sep

2011

On April 11, 2011, the Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat UnitSM (CTU) posted a blog entry titled ‘Certificate Authorities for SSL/TLS: Crypto’s weak link‘[1], which discussed some of the strains of the current Certificate Authority (CA) system for validating web site identity. The backdrop to this blog entry was the breach of Comodo [2] and their resulting […]

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