Tag Archives: Phishing

DMARC or Die

Posted on March 2, 2019 by halberenson

It’s time to get serious about adopting DMARC. Continue reading →

Posted in Computer and Internet, Microsoft, Phishing, Privacy, Security | Tagged DMARC, malware, Phishing, SPAM | 5 Comments

Tumblr is back on my good side

Posted on July 5, 2012 by halberenson

In a piece I wrote a couple of weeks ago I’d brought up the problem of Tumblr hosting phishing/malicious web sites. Well after a few days of my feeding examples to Tumblr’s support team, and they taking down the sites, I haven’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Computer and Internet, Phishing, Privacy, Security | Tagged malware, Phishing, Privacy, security, SPAM, tumblr | 1 Comment

Malware or Not?

Posted on May 19, 2011 by halberenson

I’ve been doing an interesting experiment, in a virtual machine on a separate PC with no personal information at all on it. I’ve been going through SPAM emails and clicking on every link to see what happens. It is an … Continue reading →

Posted in Computer and Internet, Phishing, Security | Tagged Anti-Malware, Crazy Slots Casino, Grand Casino, IE9, Immunet, malware, Microsoft Security Essentials, Phishing, SPAM | Comments Off

Is Hotmail’s “Trusted Sender” feature more than just show?

Posted on May 3, 2011 by halberenson

One year ago Microsoft introduced a feature in Hotmail that marked mail from a set of “trusted senders”, primarily banks, with a Trusted Sender icon. The idea was that if mail from your bank was marked with the icon you … Continue reading →

Posted in Computer and Internet, Microsoft, Phishing, Privacy | Tagged email, Hotmail, Microsoft, Phishing, Privacy, SPAM | 2 Comments

Has Microsoft put the nail in the coffin on SenderID?

Posted on May 2, 2011 by halberenson

A funny thing happened on my way to some research on Anti-SPAM technologies, I found that Microsoft is wiping SenderID information from its website. When you try going to the web page for the SenderID Framework you are now redirected to a … Continue reading →

Posted in Computer and Internet, Microsoft, Security | Tagged DKIM, email, Microsoft, Microsoft DKIM, Microsoft Sender ID, Microsoft SenderID, Phishing, Sender ID, Sender ID vs. SPF, SenderID, SPAM, SPF | 9 Comments

Time and Malware

Posted on April 28, 2011 by halberenson

I’m in the process of setting up a PC that I’m going to use exclusively for playing around with malware. In fact, I’m thinking of starting a pool to capture people’s guesses as to how long it takes someone who … Continue reading →

Posted in Computer and Internet, Security | Tagged malware, Phishing, security, SQL Slammer | 1 Comment

I’m glad I’m running IE9

Posted on April 8, 2011 by halberenson

I’ve installed all three of the latest browsers and will try them side-by-side for a while. Of course, the first thing one notices is that only IE9 has the Tracking Protection List feature. I’m working on a blog post on that … Continue reading →

Posted in Computer and Internet, Microsoft, Privacy, Security | Tagged Chrome, Firefox, IE9, Phishing, Tracking Protection List | 2 Comments

Sadly, data breaches are all too common

Posted on April 3, 2011 by halberenson

After blogging about BP’s lost laptop this morning I was checking my mail and discovered a note from one of my financial institutions about a breach at bulk email sender Epsilon that impacts me. Three of the largest credit card issuers … Continue reading →

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