Fake anti-virus software
I have found one of the more pertinacious menaces of 2010 was “fake antivirus, commonly titled “scareware” or “rogueware.” This is a widespread practice for software to manipulate victim’s to install...
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Social engineering techniques on social networks
Firstly, what is social engineering? It is a catch all term for intellectual bluff’s used to convince people to attenuate their online security. Ways to achieve this is by clicking a button, opening an...
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How to avoid being fooled by social engineering techniques
1. That old saying, how does it go? “If something is too good to be true, it probably is”. 2. A important question to ask yourself would be , “Why am I being singled out for special treatment or a...
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Great example of email scam
Just to follow up on my post “HOW TO AVOID BEING FOOLED BY SOCIAL ENGINEERING TECHNIQUES”
View ArticleIP Address from Gmail Account – Case Study
A commercial organisation asked me to investigate a series of suspicious emails they had received. I will not divulge the details of the case, but can reveal the processes involved. Every email...
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Social network
Applications I will be discussing the world’s largest social networking platform and also the most targeted by hackers and cybercriminals. This site is known as Facebook and has some serious problems...
View ArticleForensically Examining Images and Photographs
I was recently asked by a solicitor to examine images to determine if they have been digitally manipulated. There are a number of processes I use including Photoshop forensic techniques and Error Level...
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The Future of Solid State Disk Data Recovery
Many data recovery tools are universal regardless of the HDD manufacturer. So it has been relatively simple to get data back regardless of whether the affected disk was built by Maxtor, Seagate or...
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What is Photographic Forensics and Image Analysis?
Photographic forensics or image analysis is the interrogation of digital images to extract meaningful information; mainly from digital photographs by means of digital image processing techniques....
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Penetration Testing – What is it?
Over the last 3 months I have been devoting a large number of hours towards the art of Penetration Testing (Pen Testing). I thought I would write a post about this subject to explain what it is. It is...
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