Copyright © 2009 What The Hell? Security Q: What do phishing and drive-by malware have in common? A: They’re both irrelevant before you click. Simple, isn’t it? Eh, not so much. If it were simple, there’d be an accurate way to anticipate the result of clicking. On links and “Submit” buttons I mean. Yeah, I [...]
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Copyright © 2009 What The Hell? Security Not sure about you, but I’m heartened by the fact that phishing and drive-by malware are working so well today. It means the Web is in tip-top shape. Think about it. A Web that doesn’t display persuasive content, or execute retrieved code, would be irrelevant to commerce. [...]
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Copyright © 2009 What The Hell? Security This much is hardly news, but six months ago two Microsoft researchers published a paper titled A Profitless Endeavor: Phishing as Tragedy of the Commons. It presents a provocative case that the aggregate financial impact of phishing is on the order of 1/50th that suggested by surveys of [...]
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Copyright © 2009 What The Hell? Security Of course it we must kill it. But not why you think. Nearly everybody hates security. People that use FileVault on their Mac, and have ever had to perform a hard reset, hate it. People that perform encrypted backups, and have ever had to perform a restore, hate [...]
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