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Project Warwalk: PII, Social Engineering, and OSINT

Welcome back to the sixth entry of our research project, Project Warwalk. If this is your first time here, hello! To read the other entries related to this series and check out the glossary, click here . This entry to this series marks a distinctive shift when we’re talking about WiFi and specifically SSIDs. The [...]

Project Warwalk: It’s All About the Numbers

Welcome back to the second installment of Project Warwalk. If you’re just tuning in, start here to learn about what this project is and use the Glossary for your reference. In this post, we’ll be laying out the numbers for you and how they will pop up in the future articles in this series. The [...]

Google Calendar Phishing and How to Reduce Your Exposure to It

While sitting with one of our clients recently they mentioned to us that they kept getting event invites/notifications on Google Calendar that were phishing attempts or spam. They finally sent us a screenshot and we dug into the matter to learn more. In short, phishing Google Calendar has been going on for months, based on [...]

Sextortion: 12 Tips to Help Protect Yourself

If you have stumbled on this post, you are probably here for one of two reasons. You want to understand what sextortion is because maybe you're unfamiliar with term, or someone threatened to expose some compromising details about you. In this post we are going to talk about things you need to do immediately and [...]

Old spoofing attack presents issues for web browsers

Everyone is susceptible to deception.  Recently, it's come out that web browsers Chrome (Version 57), Firefox, and Opera are not properly displaying ASCII and Unicode characters.  This leaves users vulnerable to IDN homographic attacks according to web developer Xudong Zheng As Zheng explains, homographic attacks use letters from non Latin languages that look similar to [...]

Old spoofing attack presents issues for web browsers

Everyone is susceptible to deception.  Recently, it's come out that web browsers Chrome (Version 57), Firefox, and Opera are not properly displaying ASCII and Unicode characters.  This leaves users vulnerable to IDN homographic attacks according to web developer Xudong Zheng As Zheng explains, homographic attacks use letters from non Latin languages that look similar to [...]