Recent Posts Tagged With 'Fraud'

• Dissecting Social Engineering - Free Product Scam

  Posted on Wednesday February 25th, 2009 at 07:01 in Privacy, Fraud, information security

  Free stuff is being used as a marketing or brand awareness tool, but it can be used for a much more sinister goal: It can be the tool to collect a significant amount of money via simple social engineering.The scenarioI get offers for many products by...

• Internet Social Engineering - Avoid Con Tricks

  Posted on Monday July 7th, 2008 at 02:25 in Privacy, Fraud, information security

  Most of all Internet Marketing and Sales content is a very dubious selling scheme. While not directly a security issue, all these sites have characteristics of Confidence tricks - A subset of Social Engineering that merit analysis, so they can be ide...

• Nobody's safe - Google's personal data stolen

  Posted on Friday July 4th, 2008 at 01:42 in Privacy, Fraud, information security

  Here is another example that even the largest companies cannot be safe from information security breaches, especially when using partner companies with lesser security:According to a report by ZDNet Australia, an undisclosed number of personal data r...

• Control Delegated Responsibility

  Posted on Tuesday July 1st, 2008 at 08:45 in Fraud, information security

  It is a common practice in corporations to delegate certain responsibility down the chain of command. However, when such delegation is left unchecked by any formal or technical mechanism, it can become abused.Here is a example scenario:I was looking ...

• Preventing Online Credit Card Theft - Revisited

  Posted on Sunday June 15th, 2008 at 01:22 in Fraud, computer security, information security

  Online Credit Card Theft is a very old and frequently discussed topic. And yet, a lot of people in the world are still victims to credit card theft. So, in a brief morning post, here are several simple pointers to minimize the risk of online theft.NE...