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For the people of Brazil, the semi-final match in the 2014 World Cup was a mesmerizing event. True, the opposition was as fierce as you can get – no one in his right mind wants to play against Germany...
It’s always heart breaking to see how people keep falling to good old fraud techniques, and while the recent wave of Sweetheart Scams carries a clear romantic notion, it’s actually one of the nastiest...
OK folks. You’ve all been hearing about Bitcoin. Your neighbors have been hearing about Bitcoin. Your dog walker has been hearing about Bitcoin. Now it’s time to separate the wheat from the chaff… L
“Customers appreciate security” is something I’ve heard time and again. When a big credit card associations wanted to increase user registration to a new eCommerce authentication program some ten year...
Scene 1 I was sitting at the table of a cozy riverside restaurant with three members of congress, part of a 23-strong delegation visiting Israel in August. Led by Democratic whip Stanley Hoyer, the gr...
At precisely 20:26 local time my Yahoo app began buzzing like a bee hive. 72 ‘Mailer-Daemon’ failure to email messages popped up one after the other in my home-use email. Shortly afterwards I star
Leavenworth is a small town in the west-coast state of Washington. Starting as a couple of roads parallel to the new railroad tracks set in the late 19th century by the Great Northern Railway company,...
It was one of the largest cyber-heists in human history. Like in many other cyber attacks, it started with breaching a secure network. This time the target was a US-based processor of prepaid cards is...
A couple of weeks ago I got a LinkedIn invitation from someone called Tricia Bennett. I don’t know Tricia, and in such cases I’ve developed a best practice of first asking “hey mate, do I know you fro...
Here are some further thoughts on the LinkedIn compromise, following my previous blog post. Over the years I did some unscientific research on LinkedIn. Here’s some unofficial statistics I have on Lin...
The recent LinkedIn accounts compromise in which 6.5 million password hashes were published in the Russian hacker community grabbed a lot of media attention. In a hellish period of publicly known brea...
The Eternal Flame is something you’ll probably recognize as the ever burning fire in ancient Greece; but in fact it has deeper roots in the Middle East. The first records of such custom are, interesti...