
Welcome to another edition of our Weekly Rewind – where we summarize all our posts from the last week. The top stories this week were 3) “Will Selling Your 0-Days Soon Be Illegal?”, 2) “Recommended Presentations from Cyber Defense Summit…
It’s time for our monthly reminder … that is a reminder of what our cleartext password is for many of the default installs of Mailman out there. As we’ve mentioned before … try contacting the administrators first and tell them…
Ok … having fun with the title of this article but just couldn’t pass up the opportunity. Appropriately enough we noticed this post over on Naked Security. As part of a phishing campaign a defense contractor received an email with…
It seems like today is an appropriate day to write about this whole Tesco fiasco. I’m sure as I’m writing this you all have already noticed receiving your Daily Dave (or other mailman-based application) password reminders. We’ve covered this issue at…
Being a BlackHat attendee this year, the big news the the first two days of the conference seems to be an apparent hack of the registration email system. Yesterday apparently attendees starting receiving an email with their new usernames and…
Seems some researchers have tied together a series of attack campaigns against defense contractors and others that *may* have originated in China. Those familiar with our site know this is nothing new. AlienVault first discovered the campaign in recent spear…
If you missed anything or happened to be offline this past week, we hope you find this post useful as a quick reference. For those readers that may not have noticed, I actually tack on a bit of commentary to…
As a follow-up to Monday’s post, “Is Your Email Client Leaking Sensitive Information?,” I reached out to the developer of EmailPrivacyTester.com for some quick Q&A about his site. The developer, Mike Cardwell, was kind enough to take part and provided…
In following up with some interesting security services … I came across another great website on Reddit last week called EmailPrivacyTester.com. Created by Mike Cardwell over the past year or so, the service performs 38 privacy checks “to test your…