SpammerGate: Exposing a spam empire through bad backups
SpammerGate is the tale of how River City Media (RCM), Alvin Slocombe, and Matt Ferris, accidentally exposed their spam empires operation playbook to the world after improperly configuring their Rsync backups. In so doing, the accidentally leaked their inner workings,...
FTC Accuses D-Link of Unsecure Routers and IP Cameras
The Federal Trade Commission has voiced concerns in US district court that D-Link products have put consumers’ privacy at risk. In what amounts to a very public rebuke of a company, the US Government department has filed a complaint in a US district court...
Cyber Education for Children: Lessons in Online Safety are Essential
The Children’s Commissioner for England has called for more to be done to help educate children in online safety in a new study titled Growing Up Digital.
CyberSecurity Education: What is Phishing?
Every so often we revisit the topic of Phishing – which is defined as: Phishing is the attempt to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details (and sometimes, indirectly, money), often for malicious reasons, by masquerading...