Daily Archives: Thursday, April 21, 2011

Spear Phishing: can it fool me?

Image via Wikipedia Recent articles in the news remind me that anyone can be fooled by a good scam. the problem is always the trust we gave to the communication we received. is not just a financial problem (you remember the Madoff scam?) but a problem that can hit anyone, even expert guys can fall.The most recent was the hack occurs at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, but it is just the last of an infinite series. Also the RSA securID breach  was prepared with spear phishing. What is spear phishing? Spear phishing is an e-mail spoofing fraud attempt that targets…

Is it a Malware epidemic or Just marketing?

the changing face of the security landscape those days can be perceived mostly from security vendors reports and news article than from a real understanding of what has changed and what is going to change in the security landscape from security people.In the enterprise environment there are still the old fashioned procedures and the overall approach upon security needs is quite dated.But to be able to understand what we need to change and why we need to change our approach would be useful to understand what are all those changes about. Once upon a time there was a cable When…

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