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Google Voice - No Privacy Remains?
Google is announcing a new service - Google Voice. Apart from the automatic transcripts of voicemail, call filtering and other user benefits, the service will give Google access to enormous amounts of information about your life - including recording...
Email security - leaks in corporate e-mails
During a business e-mail communication a lot of people tend to include non-business related information. Such unrelated information is usually generic info about the senders company but it can expose the company to unwanted risks of social engineeri...
Tutorial - Secure Web Based Job Application
In the effort to minimize costs, a lot of companies create web based forms for job application. But web hosting is mostly outsourced to hosting providers, which host hundreds of sites on the same server, thus potentially exposing the personal data of...
Dissecting Social Engineering - Free Product Scam
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...
Whisperbot analysis - Revisited
I got a response from Matt at Whisperbot regarding my post Whisperbot - No thanks, I'll use e-mail.You can read the reply here, it's the third reply on the postRegarding the previous post, I would like to clarify that I have no interest to attack the...
Whisperbot - No thanks, I'll use e-mail
Whisperbot is a new free service that claims it delivers confidential messages to your friends without e-mail.According to their own site, they say: Stop using e-mail for your confidential messages!While this is a nice slogan to have on a site, we sa...
No Privacy - Saw You Cheating on Image Search
What is the next big privacy issue? Image Search. But not the current image search, which actually searches through the file names and meta data, but actual, pattern matching image search.The issue of pattern matching between images regardless of per...
Internet Social Engineering - Avoid Con Tricks
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
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...
Citibank PIN Heist - Sources of Security Breach
Citibank ATM's become the target of fraudulent withdrawals by at least two men this February. Allegedly, the entire incident was related to a computer security breach into Citibank's servers that process ATM transaction.This is a first time that actu...
Another Bad D.M.C.A. - Canadian Bill C-61
Last week Bill C-61 was introduced in the Canadian parliament. Supposedly it protects digital media from copyright infringement. The danger in that law will not serve only to protect the copyright of music and video files, but will possibly hamper th...
