Copyright © 2010 What The Hell? Security San Francisco, Calif. — A man who spent the last 9 years in a phishing-induced coma awoke today — only to relapse minutes later upon learning that absolutely no progress had been made on the anti-phishing scene since 2001. In an exclusive interview held at Sanford Wallace Memorial [...]
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Copyright © 2009 What The Hell? Security If you believe that Bit.ly is going to solve their shortened URL problem the way they intend to, have I got a story for you. [Sidebar: Be aware that it's completely safe to click on the links in the previous paragraph. If you don't believe me, select View [...]
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Copyright © 2009 What The Hell? Security John Pescatore makes a point about warning vs. blocking bad links. But here’s the thing about links: We’re thinking about them all wrong. Now, of course there are bad links. They end up on blacklists. Let’s pretend they’re more than marginally useful. (If you have issue with that [...]
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Copyright © 2009 What The Hell? Security Referring to my previous post, here is the skinny on my Anti-Fraudulent Hot Dog Vendor Detector. Well, hold on. I’m up to Version 2.0. Before I describe that, I really should explain Version 1.0. Here’s a theoretical average day in its life. Bear with me, there’s actually something [...]
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Copyright © 2009 What The Hell? Security What the hell? We have it all wrong again. Listen up everybody. This isn’t about Facebook. It’s like this. Consider the crime of stealing a credit card number in two scenarios, one offline and one online: Offline Online Victim Street Pedestrian Online Pedestrian Perpetrator Fraudulent Hot Dog Vendor* [...]
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Copyright © 2009 What The Hell? Security There’s a really good reason that Web security is such a pain. It’s not supposed to be secure. Sorry to break it to you, but hypertext was thirty years old before we decided to use the Web as a platform for commerce. That’s, what, three years longer than [...]
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