Security Awareness

Online Social Networks: 5 threats and 5 ways to use them safely

Last night I gave a talk at the Northeast Ohio Information Security Forum called “Online Social Networks: 5 threats and 5 ways to use them safely”. I spent the last few months doing research on various social networks specifically MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn. Many of us either use these sites or know others that do. Users …

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The Honey Stick Project: Tracking Mobile Storage Devices

Here is a pretty cool project that I stumbled upon over at Security Catalyst. The concept is to have a “Honey Pot for mobile storage devices” but each mobile storage device (USB key, iPod, etc…) in reality becomes it’s own “Honey Stick” where the researcher can safely track how many people are plugging these devices …

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Craigslist and your anonymity

Stumbled upon a very good social experiment by another blogger today in which he researched the identity of a “anonymous” Craigslist poster. While Craigslist does have a decent system for providing anonymous postings it goes to show you that there is always going to be human error..or just plain stupidity. (Note the last link…this was …

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