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Banking Social Engineering Scams are Alive and Well
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The easiest way for hackers to steal your money is to get you to help them do it. We are seeing attacks where the victim gets a text message supposedly from their bank about a potentially fraudulent transaction and asking the victim if it is legitimate. If the victim answers, the hacker goes into high…
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Dark Patterns and the Law
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Dark patterns are techniques that web site operators, typically, use to make it more difficult to choose one option than another. For example, try to close your Amazon account or your Facebook account. It used to be that you had to call Amazon and they would try and talk you out of it. Now you…
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Security News Update for April 20, 2025
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Security News Update for April 20, 2025 This week’s news includes:
Disaster Recovery for Password Managers and MFA apps
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Many of us use password managers and some of us use multi-factor authentication apps and, in many cases, that app lives on your phone. But what happens if your phone breaks, gets dropped in the toilet or run over by your car? What do you do then? I learned some things today and have some…
The Risk of BYOD – Non-Managed Devices
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Many companies allow, encourage and/or require employees to use personally owned devices. While it seems that, at least in the short term, this is a money saving and morale boosting move, in the long term, it may be an existential threat to the company. In this post we are going to use one company who…
Will You be the Last to Know?
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External attack surface management tools (EASM) allow anyone to get a sense of your security prep without your permission or even your knowledge. Who uses EASM tools? Your competitors against you, your customers to decide if they want to do business with you, members of the public, your insurance carrier to decide if they want…