Spoofing a Website

Posted on Thursday, April 13, 2006 @ 4:48 pm
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F-Secure's blog points to a Harvard University study of the ways folks (fail to) identify security indicators on spoofed/phishing websites. Truly fascinating.

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Myfip Worm Analysis

Posted on Friday, August 26, 2005 @ 8:55 am
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One of the unanswered questions is what the thieves do with all the files this tool sends back to the FTP server.  If they were to capture everything on my work PC, they'd get a middle manager's desktop conglomeration:  Thousands of more-or-less useless files and a few dozen documents which would probably be valuable to someone.  There are also a bunch of database files (in several formats) which could be mined, but aren't clearly useful as they stand.  I have trouble finding stuff in this mess; how would someone who doesn't work here make sense of it?

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Of Mules and Identity Theft

Posted on Thursday, July 14, 2005 @ 8:58 am
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Feel insecure yet?

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Living with POPFile

Posted on Saturday, July 3, 2004 @ 2:24 pm
Filed Under Computing, POPfile, Security, Stories
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Time, I think, for a POPFile update.  It's been a bit over three months, and over seven thousand messages, since I last discussed the program.  Quickly reviewed:  I started using the program in the wake of last August's spam (virus) epidemic.  Right from the start I've used PF as a mail sorting program, not just [...]

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Still Witty after all these weeks

Posted on Monday, June 7, 2004 @ 12:51 pm
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There's a mind behind Witty, folks.  Wonder what she learned from the experiment.

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