06/08/2017
Why Setting Your Homepage Matters
Among the most underappreciated things in all of Internet security is the homepage. In fact, it's importance goes beyond security. It affects three things: Security Speed Sanity In this video, we discuss why setting your homepage to one specific thing is the only way to go. (And, most people have... Read more
06/02/2017
When Antivirus Software Fails You: How to Stop (and Defeat!) a Real-World Trojan & Social Engineering Attack
It isn't every day you get to see what a real Trojan or Social Engineering attack looks like. When you do, there's seldom time to even take screenshots: you just want to get the heck out of Dodge. But, this time, in putting together material for our upcoming free workshop,... Read more
04/13/2017
Mac OSX Fake Installer / Malware Spotted in the Wild
Whilst traversing The Tubes yesterday doing some research on credit card processing across a host of different sites, I was hit with an old school malware installer technique with a couple of new twists at one of them. (That's what it looks like above.) What's old school about it, is... Read more
03/13/2017
A Preview of What's Next
THREE short days ago, I promised you we were working on something big. (If you missed that blog / email, here's a one sentence recap: My dear friend Mike's recent, sudden passing gave me the impetus to help our subscribers more than we are.) HERE'S WHERE WE ARE NOW... We... Read more
03/10/2017
A Personal Story: How a Small Mistake Nearly Had Catastrophic Consequences
Mike was an extraordinarily talented programmer--we're talking a top 1/10 of 1% kind of a guy. He'd had been sick for some time, but his passing was a shock to us all. After he died, his business partner contacted me. "Kevin," she began, "You were the only one Mike trusted... Read more