Friends had contacted hacking victim Gunnar* early one morning via mobile, to check in person whether invitations they had received to view a Google Docs file were actually genuine. This was commendable behaviour on the part of the friends, as Gunnar still had no idea at this point that his account had been hacked. This […]
Thanks to the Websense® ThreatSeekerTM Network, Websense Security Labs recently detected an unusual domain name that we have analyzed. The domain name, "inte1sat", substitutes the number "1" for the lower case letter "l", an example of "leet" substitution that surfaced in the 1980s and is still used today. (Leet is a method of constructing words […]
This seems to be my week for flagging password-related blogs. Well, there are plenty of stolen password issues around. So here's a blog in stark contrast to Urban Schrott's blog about good password practice in Ireland (which I expanded on here and here). Troy Hunt ran an analysis of the subset of stolen Sony Pictures […]
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