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I actually started following my own advice a couple of years ago and started creating random passwords for each site that I use that requires a login. Yep, no more “Password123!” for me, it’s all random. But that poses another problem. How do I store these things in a way that is secure and readily available since I don’t have an eidedic memory?
Mystery shopper scams are nothing new, but I now have the experience of being personally targeted by one. From my research, most of these scams are carried out in a “pull method,” whereby ads are placed in classified sections asking for applicants for a part time job. I was targeted by someone using the “push method,” whereby a live (fraudulent) check was mailed to me in a haphazardly stuffed envelope with an official looking letter and survey form.
Discussion and buzz about the burgeoning Fraud-as-a-Service (FaaS) trend in the cybercrime economy is as constant and as progressive as it gets. New FaaS offerings are only limited to the imagination of the dubious actors who offer them, and as such, are often creative and interesting in the ways by which they can make perpetrating fraud easier and more accessible to a growing number of criminals.
Payment security is back in the public eye with the recent disclosure of a cardholder data breach at a leading US payment processor. While initial reaction to this latest incident has been unfortunately predictable, characterized by plenty of uninformed speculation, outrage, and a general lack of understanding of the workings of the payments industry, the story that is ultimately written about this latest incident might be one that is completely unexpected.
I was checking into the happenings on Facebook last night and had a very strange request come up. Someone that I know and respect sent me a request through a product called BranchOut. While their about page does more to confuse than to clarify, what I understand it to be is a way to create a professional network of contacts with Facebook—or in easier terms, think about LinkedIn-type functionality sitting on top of your Facebook network of contacts. Frankly, this is a terrible idea.
It’s a new, exciting era for Trojan builders. The mobile space in 2012 is a vast, unchartered territory that attracts the talent and creativity of black hatters and malware writers like moths to a flame. If you think about it, the entire mobile security space has huge ‘Here there be monsters’ sections where the cartographers don’t really know what to draw. With its unique architecture, security platforms and operating systems, it’s a challenging, yet highly rewarding exercise.
Last week gave way to a flurry of activity around RSA and an alleged cryptographic flaw in the algorithm based on this report by Arjen K. Lenstra, James P. Hughes, Maxime Augier, Joppe W. Bos, THorsten Kleinjung, and Christophe Wachter. RSA’s Sam Curry writes a post here, as well as posts by Dan Kaminski, Nadia [...]
RSA Conference is right around the corner, and I’m excited to actually be able to see some talks this year. I’m on a panel with Dave Navetta and Serge Jorgensen on Tuesday covering the Dark Side of a Payment Card Breach (LAW-107, Room 131, 2:40pm). I am sure if you are there, we will bump [...]
Recently I was catching up on some RSS feeds1 and came across this interesting post from Trevor at ThreatSim entitled Fighting The Advanced Attacker: 9 Security Controls You Should Add To Your Network Right Now. After reading it, I had one of those “Ah-ha” moments where I looked at one of the recommendations and asked myself, “Why am I not doing that?”
Over the past few weeks, there have been several reports about the ways in which cybercriminals are making it harder to detect fraud by concealing what they’re doing as evidenced by a new kind of man-in-the-middle attack on Facebook users.
