Following closely upon the article/confession about cloud linked accounts and devices, and the ease of hacking them (with some interesting points about authentication systems): http://m.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking/
I noticed, this morning, that the number of phishing messages, and specifically email account phishing, had, after a couple of relatively low months, suddenly jumped again. Excessive convenience almost always = insecurity. I have not linked any of my socmed accounts. Facebook doesn't have my Twitter account password, etc. This is somewhat inconvenient, since I have to sign on to the different accounts in order to post things. However, it does mean that, in the case of this type of story, I can just use it as an example and move on, rather than spending time changing the passwords on all my accounts. ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. - Mark Twain victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://www.infosecbc.org/links http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://twitter.com/rslade _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
