I went to verify some information to complete my account registration with an office supply store. The last item looked like this I initially thought that if it is a word, it must be l33t speak, but ahh, Google Translate to the rescue! I don’t know what 443xje5 means in French or English, but the

It’s been a really rough time for Sony. I have a hunch that in the past month “Sony CTO” has leapt past toilet cleaner on the list of least desirable jobs. Last month there was the massive Sony PlayStation/Qriocity breach that leaked more data than a Wall Street ticker leaks stock prices. Then a Sony

What do these two topics have in common? More than you might think. The obvious is that neither has arrived yet. There is no proof of existence of either, you have to take it on faith. Neither will be here tomorrow… take my word for that. A story at http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/23/uk-linkedin-security-idUSLNE74M02820110523 explains how dreadfully poor security

… I haven’t recently posted any pointers to our content on SC Magazine’s Cybercrime Corner, and now might be a good time to recap on what Randy and I have been posting there this month (so far…) …

*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeeter_Davis  Here in the UK it's just turned 6pm on the 21st May, which apparently means I'll shortly be either invited to a rapturous celestial street party or subjected to various unpleasant experiences starting with a giant earthquake and ending with a front seat at a subterranean bonfire on or before 21st October. Though according to

Perhaps you just read David Harley’s blog http://blog.eset.com/2011/05/20/facebook-gets-something-right. Now I am about to tell you about something else Facebook got right. With two accolades in one day dirty, unfounded rumors might start flying about Facebook buying ESET or infiltrating our blog with spies. To cast off such groundless speculation I’ll tell you about the part

It seems a little strange to have the words "Facebook" and "privacy" in the same sentence in one of my blogs, yet it seems that Facebook CTO Bret Taylor testified at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on mobile phone and internet privacy. But it turns out the story is about rather more than privacy: it's

Greetings Dear Reader, We have published guidance material previously on passwords and passphrases, some are blogs and some are lengthier depending on your liking (link & link).  Even still it is always good practice to reinforce sensible password techniques.  For this blog, I plan on sharing an analogous self-ritual, and one that relies on a

It's been a busy few weeks. Last week I was in Krems, Austria for the EICAR conference. The week before, I was in Prague for the CARO workshop (where my colleagues Robert Lipovsky, Alexandr Matrosov and Dmitry Volkov did a great presentation on "Cybercrime in Russia: Trends and issues" – more information on that shortly),

In life one cannot reload a particular scene; however, in gaming one certainly can.  This is an unfortunate time for Sony PlayStation and customers due to the recent breach.  Anecdotal reports are now coming in that Sony PlayStation who opened up their gaming ecosystem recently has now potentially fallen to a password reset hack.  This