How Email Accounts Are Hijacked

The most devastating exploit that can happen to you is to have your email account hijacked.  We have spilled a lot of pixels on this subject (see below).  The reason we find this so dangerous is that it is that this is the attack most likely to happen to you.

Google recently released a study that analyzed how Gmail accounts are hijacked.  If you have an Android smartphone, you have a Gmail ...

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Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.


 Famous cryptographer’s tombstone cryptogram decrypted

A paper at Schmoocon DC over the weekend revealed a delightful cryptogram on William and Elizebeth Friedmans’ tombstone.  This is a fun story and will introduce you to the Bacon cypher.


Cryptocurrency as the lure, an ISO as the attachment – why not open it?

Phishers are using the hot ...

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The End of Passwords?

Every year some pundit declares that the password will soon be dead.  I have been proclaiming for several years now that the password, by itself, is no longer a suitably strong form of security, and have been a champion for two-factor authentication.

Microsoft has recently stated that their Windows Hello facial recognition system is a suitable replacement for passwords.  Windows Hello ...

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Congress Acts To Secure Electronic Voting Machines

As long as we are on the subject of election rigging and tampering, it is notable that Congress has finally weighed in on the subject of insecure and hackable electronic voting machines.  According to a recent TechDirt article, “A new bipartisan bill has been introduced, called the Secure Elections Act, that would actually ...

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Russia Meddles in Another Election – Sweden

I recently caught a story on the BBC World News via PBS.  Anders Thornberg, the director of Swedish Security Services (SAPO) was accusing the Russians of engaging in social media driven misinformation campaign very similar to what happened in recent elections in France and Germany, and in the US during the last Presidential Election.  Evidently Putin is concerned that Sweden may join NATO, and is actively campaigning for candidates who are opposed to NATO.

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Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.


Malware Displaying Porn Ads Discovered in Game Apps on Google Play

Google removed 60 games that contained code to display porn pop-ups and other malicious activities.  Click through to see list of bad apps.  If you installed any of them, you will need to remove these yourself.


Visa joins other major ...

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Fifty Years of Computing – Doug Engelbart

Fifty years ago, in 1968, computers were big mainframe systems that were programmed using large decks of punch cards.  All output came out of a printer.  There were no computer displays yet, just rows of blinking light bulbs that were call a “monitor.”  All programs were run as batch jobs, one at a time.  There were no windows, no multi-tasking, no interactive computing as we know it today.

On December 8, 1968 a computer engineer named Doug Engelbart made a presentation ...

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Spy vs. Spy vs. Spy – What Countries Are Using Cyber-Espionage Tactics?

The press has been relentless lately in its coverage of Russian cyber-espionage and disinformation campaigns on Facebook and other social networks prior to the last US Presidential campaign.  But is Russia the first to engage in election rigging on this sort?  Hardly.  We thought that looking at the state of cyber-espionage as a tactic in international relations might be interesting, and we were right.  It turns out that cyber-espionage is ...

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