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Phishing? Pharming? Don’t these guys know how to spell?

Network World wrote about an interesting attack that is – at least in this case – very simple to fix. First, what is Pharming.  When you go to your browser and type in www. foo.com, you are trusting the browser to actually send you to foo.com.  What if it really sent you to badfoo.com?  Badfoo.com […]

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Florida Law Enforcement Makes Significant Use Of Stingray Cell Phone Interceptors

As I have reported before, more law enforcement agencies are using cell phone interceptors to obtain evidence of crimes.  This is not particularly surprising given how important cell phones are in our lives – they are likely just as important in the lives of bad guys. What is interesting is the secrecy surrounding them. In […]

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Microsoft 1, Lenovo 0 (or minus 1?)

Lenovo is getting more than it’s share of attention these days. Microsoft has released an update to it’s free Windows Defender anti-malware software that classifies Lenovo’s Superfish as the malicious software that it is, removes the certificate from the Windows certificate store (which is the hard part, so yeah, Microsoft – and I don’t say […]

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2014 Breach Report – Over A Billion Records Exposed

Risk Based Security released their 2014 data breach report (available here) with some impressive numbers.  I am just going to highlight a few;  read the report if you would like more details. 3,014 data breach incidents (up 28.5%) 1.1 Billion records breached (up 22.3%) 72.5% of the incidents released less than 10,000 records 55.3% of […]

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