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)
rsl...@vcn.bc.ca sl...@victoria.tc.ca rsl...@computercrime.org
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
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