Copyright © 2009 What The Hell? Security Assume for a moment that you are a legitimate business entity called Example.com. By legitimate I mean you have been vetted in a way that demonstrates you qualify for an Extended Validation SSL (EV-SSL) certificate, whether or not you actually own one or even want to. You publish [...]
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Copyright © 2009 What The Hell? Security Convenient to the point I make here, the terms Moore’s Law and Hypertext were both coined in 1965. Since then, if I’m counting correctly on fingers and toes, CPUs should have improved by roughly a factor of (2 **(((2009 – 1965)*12)/18)) = 676,414,963. The actual number doesn’t matter [...]
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Copyright © 2009 What The Hell? Security Phishing is so pre-”What The Hell Security.” Here’s what post-click fraud has that phishing doesn’t. In name: jargon-free (sorry d00dz) capitalizes on an understood concept (fraud) describes its boundaries (the fraud after the click, not the fraud after the card trick) In meaning: encompasses all link-aware applications (office [...]
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Copyright © 2009 What The Hell? Security Phishing used to be a bounded phenomenon. Mirriam-Webster Online defines it as “a scam by which an e-mail user is duped into revealing personal or confidential information which the scammer can use illicitly.“ Translation: Receive an email thick with Romanian accent; click on “Click hear” [sic]; transcribe your [...]
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