John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 19, 2012

But at “hubadverts.com/on-data/” for example, you will see a recent post of mine, scraped in its entirety. Of course, the last thing I am going to do is try to log into the back end of the site, because that would give the spammers access to the backend login information of my own site.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

As I started delving back through my own writing over the years, the picture became much clearer and it really crystallised just this week after I inadvertently landed on a nasty phishing site. In the end I broke it down into 3 Ps: padlocks, phishing and privacy. Here's the value proposition of a VPN in the modern era: 1.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 7, 2018

And let's be fair to Barclays - it's not just them offering outdated and inaccurate advice about the true meaning of the padlock: Taking a mandatory Cyber Awareness Course. Last year, I wrote a long piece on certs and phishing which I'll come back to and talk about more a little later on. But the option does not exist.

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The Falcon's View

MARCH 12, 2018

Except, of course, that in the real world nobody ever took time to read the more detailed documents, Ops and Dev teams really didn't like being told how to do their jobs, and, at the end of the day, I was frequently reminded that publishing a policy document didn't translate to implementation.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. It emerges that email marketing giant Mailchimp got hacked.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 21, 2019

If someone stands up a PayPal phishing site, for example, EV is relying on people to say "ah, I was going to enter my PayPal credentials but I don't see EV therefore I won't". Of course they are! Furthermore, as I've said many times before, for EV to work people have to change their behaviour when they don't see it!

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

Gary McGraw is a good friend of mine and I've talked to him about software security for almost two decades now. You need user education; you need to make sure that you recognize phishing and all that sort of stuff. Dennis Fischer: I know that you teach an intro to computer security course and also a software security course.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

Gary McGraw is a good friend of mine and I've talked to him about software security for almost two decades now. You need user education; you need to make sure that you recognize phishing and all that sort of stuff. Dennis Fischer: I know that you teach an intro to computer security course and also a software security course.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

Gary McGraw is a good friend of mine and I've talked to him about software security for almost two decades now. You need user education; you need to make sure that you recognize phishing and all that sort of stuff. Dennis Fischer: I know that you teach an intro to computer security course and also a software security course.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Cybercriminals often leverage social engineering tactics like phishing and spear-phishing to propagate sophisticated malware. From mining cryptocurrency to launching DDoS attacks against networks, there are countless ways in which malware can access and utilize victim’s computers and data. Less common types.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Compromised Credentials Compromised identities from phishing, info stealers, keyloggers, and bad password habits provide the entry point for most ransomware attacks and data breaches. Used active multi-email engagements after effective phishing screenings. 27% of all attacks mine crypto currencies, usually on unmonitored cloud systems.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

What was most interesting, of course, were the computer connections. Vamosi: malware that typically gets deposited on your computer from say a phishing attack or a malicious website is sometimes just a shell. So perhaps Bitcoin mining Well, cryptocurrency mining was in their mind.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Is it a phishing site? No, of course not, and their abandonment of EV without consequences proves how little value they (and many others) actually place in it. Instead, the digicert-secured.com domain is mine. Or just a bank without EV? Left the site and not banked there any more? Want to check if the certificate is valid?

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

So why don't I do some side look why don't I use these legitimate tools so comes up in loads of applications, you know, kindly low mine hours. N etwork Chuck : Let's say I receive an email, a phishing email. And of course, hackers use that to do nefarious things, but by default, in most situations, macros are disabled.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 22, 2023

Of course, over time, law enforcement would find ways to intercept the administration of these site, take them over, and arrest their owners. Because, of course, who would want a forum or platform that can give you private anonymity and keep your identity secret and your location secret more than criminals?

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