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New your.brand domain names to increase phishing?

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Jun

2011

ICANN has just approved a new batch of individualized TLD’s (Top Level Domains), so now you can register your.brand, whatever yourbrand is, instead of the usual yourbrand.com, .net, etc., if you can prove to ICANN you deserve it. The problem? Users tricked by similar looking domain names have long been a boon for phishing exploits, […]

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ISSA Ireland 2011 Part 1

03

Jun

2011

I recently talked about passwords at the ISSA 2011 Conference in Dublin. I had hoped to get this post online sooner, but it seems there’s a bit of a delay with regards the various conference presentations going online. With that in mind, here are some random pictures from the event until I can do a […]

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Super Mario data-slurping scare hits the Google Chrome web store

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May

2011

Fancy a game of Super Mario for free? Well, be careful – because although you may not have to pay any money for it, you might just be giving away a lot of your private data. Blogger David Rogers has described how he stumbled across something interesting on the Google’s Chrome web store – a […]

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