Social Engineering attacks are dangerous because attackers use unexpected psychological manipulation to trick victims into making security mistakes. Typically, these attacks use personal data and background information to gain trust and provide authority for their inquiries. They leverage this misguided trust to trick victims into providing access to accounts and ... View Post
Protecting your DNS and Domains from Attack
“Unprecedented Times” is common nomenclature these days and used to justify radical and previously unthinkable societal changes on an almost daily basis. This has rocked our ability to feel secure and stable, resulting in feelings of great uncertainty that touches each one of us. Including every one of your employees and supplier’s employees. Therefore, it is ... View Post
How Perl.com could have avoided Hijacking
For a week we lost control of the Perl.com domain. Now that the incident has died down, we can explain some of what happened and how we handled it. This incident only affected the domain ownership of Perl.com and there was no other compromise of community resources. This website was still there, but DNS was handing out different IP numbers. An interesting article was ... View Post