I’m on my way back from the Black Hat DC 2009 briefings, and thought I’d give a brief synopsis of my experience there while waiting to catch a plane. This was the first opportunity I’ve had to attend such a conference, and it was made possible by Alan over at StillSecureAfterAllTheseYears.com (yes, you made my [...]
We here at Geekamongus are by no means partial to one operating system over another. We love Macs, we love Linux, we love Solaris, and we love those other guys. Seriously, in no way do we ever intend on taking sides, and articles such as this one are not to be mistaken as an attack [...]
The other day I had an old client forward me an email from their credit card processing company, saying that the server upon which their website was hosted failed their PCI Compliance security check. I had never heard of this and was wary that it might be a service they were being tricked into adding [...]
Google says the recent GMail account breeches were due to typical phishing scams, not a vulnerability in GMail itself. With help from affected users, we determined that the cause was a phishing scheme, a common method used by malicious actors to trick people into sharing their sensitive information. Attackers sent customized e-mails encouraging web domain [...]
I’ve been following the story about the domain name hijacking of MakeUseOf.com the last few weeks with interest. All signs are pointing to the domain thief having cracked the MakeUseOf.com Gmail account in order to retrieve their GoDaddy.com password and transfer the owenership of the domain. This is not good for any GMail user, let [...]
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