Posts Tagged ‘phishing’
Friday, July 1st, 2011
 It is often thought that Viruses and Malware are the biggest threats to your personal information, but there is even a greater threat that often goes undetected. Social Engineering is a technique used by people to gather your personal or secure information without you even thinking twice about giving it away. Social Engineering is most often performed over the phone, but could just as easily be done via email, text messaging, or any other form of communication; you can be Social Engineered by anyone.
In the most basic form, Social Engineering is when someone poses as someone else (i.e. a trusted friend or colleague) to trick you into divulging sensitive information. ”Hey, this is PayPal, please follow this link and re-enter all your banking details — its ok, really!”
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Tags: email, filtering, phishing, privacy, security, social engineering, spear phishing
Posted in LuxSci Library: Security and Privacy
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
 Creating a web site that has “secure” components requires more than slapping together some web pages and adding an SSL Certificate. All a certificate really does is create a thin veneer of security — one that does not go very far to protect whatever sensitive data necessitated security in the first place. In fact, naive attempts at security can ultimately make the data less secure and more likely to be compromised by creating an appetizing target for the unscrupulous.
So, beyond paying big bucks to hire a developer with significant security expertise, what do you do? Start with this article — its purpose is to shed light on many of the most significant factors in secure web site programming/design and what you can do to address them. At a minimum, reading this article will help you to intelligently discuss your web site security with the developers that you ultimately hire.
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Tags: eavesdropping, https, man-in-the-middle, pgp, phishing, s/mime, ssl, ssl certificate, trust, web site security
Posted in AAA Featured Articles, LuxSci Library: Security and Privacy, LuxSci Library: Web Design and Programming
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
The situation: your organization needs to collect information from clients through from(s) on your web site, but that information is sensitive. So, you need to be absolutely sure that the information is transferred from the users of your web site to you in as secure a fashion as possible. This means that
- no one but you (or optionally your authorized staff) can intercept or read the information,
- the information is never stored insecurely anywhere
- the information cannot be modified without your knowledge
Why would this high level of security and privacy be necessary? There are many cases where they are essential; some of these include:
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Tags: encryption, hipaa, pgp, phishing, s/mime, secure, secure email, secure web form, ssl, ssl certificate, web form, web site
Posted in LuxSci Library: Web Design and Programming, TechNotes
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Friday, November 14th, 2008
Internet service providers Global Crossing and Hurricane Electric shut down the San Jose, CA, web hosting provider "McColo" on Tuesday after it was determined that the ISP was aiding criminals in the sending of Spam, perpetrating online fraud, and providing access to child pornography. McColo was used by some of the most active and prolific spammers in the world; the suspension of its services has resulted in a 75% decrease in spam, worldwide!
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Tags: filtering, malware, mx logic, mxcolo, mxlogic, phishing, spam
Posted in LuxSci Insider
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