Roger Thompson on Privacy Concerns
Exactly who has your data? Roger’s blog suggests that even legitimate businesses are getting a much wider spread of data than they’re getting directly from you as a customer. Scary, definitely....
View ArticlePrivacy, AVG, Facebook, Uncle Roger Thompson and all
My last post (http://avien.net/blog/?p=209) on Roger Thompson’s article about privacy concerns, “public” information and so on raised some interesting discussion. Ironically (or perhaps appropriately)...
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Never Mind the Balls: it’s the Unsafe Hex Crystals
A little more crystal balling. Anton Chuvakin suggests in his Security Warrior blog for today that the ongoing trend for the next decade will be for people to find it ever harder to untangle their real...
View ArticleWho owns you?
David recently blogged here (http://avien.net/blog/?p=253) on his concerns over the ways that our personal data is increasingly online and available to everyone who might want it. On a similar theme, a...
View ArticleiPhones, Facebook, and malware friendliness
Being the conscientious security professional, I do the best to keep all my Computing devices current on OS and application patches. This goes for every server in the lab to the iPod Touch and...
View ArticleUnnamed App Facebook Hoax/Scam
Flagged by Peter Kruse on a specialist list. A hoax is circulating on Facebook, warning about a virus that is supposed to add an “Unnamed App” to the FB tabs. SEO actually drives the incautious Googler...
View ArticleWith all the Buzz, some education is in order
So, the not very surprising news that Google has once again attempted to launch a social networking site – following its spectacularly unsuccessful 2004 launch of Orkut (no, unless you live in Brazil...
View ArticleYou can’t always read Facebook on a train
When I saw an MSN article headed Facebook friendships ‘not real’, I was expecting something about lack of validation of Facebookers’ identities. Which is indeed an issue, though not a new one. “On the...
View ArticleVB Seminar 2010
I spoke at the VB 2010 Seminar in London on ways that Social Engineering can affect your business’ users. During the talk, I used some links for demos (many thanks to my good friend Dave Marcus for...
View ArticleSupport scams: what can AVIEN do about it?
In the wake of a blog I posted today at ESET, on my perennial warhorse of support scams and cold-calling, I’ve been talking to Martijn Grooten of Virus Bulletin and Steve Burn, both of whom contributed...
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