Security Through Absurdity

To start with, beginners don’t usually clean phish but anyone can help to get the cleaning process started. Admitting that someone else has ...

I have to change my address again. I don’t like where Bank of America has moved me to so I am going to move to 475 Anton Blvd., Costa Mesa, ...

There is a subtle precision in the statement “VirusTotal only showed three antimalware scanners detecting malware.” If you think that means ...

Update: Third party analysis tends to indicates something that is conceptually the same as malvertising. Watch the video and replace Equifax...

One of the silver linings of the Equifax breach is their free identity theft protection. Perhaps that is the only silver lining. I was skep...

My credit scores. I want my credit scores. I know you’ll give me a year of free credit monitoring, but I’m pretty sure that is only to t...

I won’t keep you hanging… … … much... the answer is no! If the answer was all you needed, then thank you for visiting my blog. If you woul...

I recently had an interesting conversation with Alex Gounares, the CEO at   Polyverse . Alex calls Polyverse’s security approach “Moving T...

The answer looks like yes, but ask a lawyer for a legal opinion. I have confirmation from a lawyer that I am correct. Comcast’s most rec...

At least yours shouldn’t. Your enterprise should not care about the 10,000 most common passwords and the reason is unbelievable! Out of the...

A long time ago an engineer invented a technology for computers called PCMCIA. To the best of my knowledge PCMCIA stands for P eople C an’t...

Despite the fact that sometimes I discuss serious security topics, the name of this blog is after all “Security through Absurdity” and so a...

Barkley, a self-proclaimed security company, has revived the 1990’s era Rosenthal Virus Simulator; an application that called false positiv...

The “I Can Use Facebook Any Time I Want To” Offspring Password Reset Attack No matter how ridiculous, every "cyberthreat" must...

It has been so long since I posted here that most of the posts were irrelevant. I did leave the two rules you damned well better know post t...