Risk Management, Computer Security, Asset Protection

In this post, I’m going to be just a bit more direct than normal (as can be deduced from reading the word “stupid” in the title). It amazes me that people actually believe the outright lies that are written in some spam emails. Here’s the text of a spam email that hit my Inbox today: [...]

Phishing is "To request confidential information over the Internet under false pretenses in order to fraudulently obtain credit card numbers, passwords, or other personal data.". And according to another blog post I read recently, some phishing emails have been sent out with the goal of getting website owners and webmasters to give up their cPanel [...]

As a security professional, I often have “insider” information regarding security issues that individuals and entities are experiencing. Quite often the initial reaction by a security pro will be to cut off access to the source of a threat or exploit attempt. Let me explain why this often is NOT a legitimate long-term solution to [...]

Somebody just sent spam to an account that I use solely for keeping records of sales. I have never, nor will I ever, give permission to anybody to send marketing stuff to that account. One person just learned the hard way. They thought that they would be clever and send it from a Hushmail.com account. [...]