Category: Security Features

Security Warning: Japanese earthquake scams will send tremors through the web

March 11, 2011

This morning we woke to the shock of one of the biggest earthquakes in recorded history hitting Japan. While I am writing this, the world is still holding their breath in fear of imminent tsunamis. And while information and damage estimates are still rather basic right now, based on our experience in the past, the … More Security Warning: Japanese earthquake scams will send tremors through the web

Security Feature: Misplaced trust in trustworthy names?

March 3, 2011

Just the other day a journalist commented to me, as so many have before, that “surely people can be relatively safe online, if they just avoid dodgy sites” (and by dodgy sites, they usually mean porn or piracy sites). After all the years of telling people about malicious code injections, about drive-by downloads, and about … More Security Feature: Misplaced trust in trustworthy names?