Shmoocon 2020 - Josh Kamdjou's 'Voight-Kampff for Email Addresses: Quantifying Email Address Reputation To Identify Spear-Phishing And Fraud' →

March 29, 2020 by Marc Handelman in Conferences, Shmoocon 2020, Education, Information Security, Identity, Email Security

Thanks to 0xdade for publishing these outstanding Shmoocon 2020 Convention videos via the 0xdade YouTube channel and the 0xdade Shmoocon 2020 Playlist for everyone to view, learn and, of course, enjoy.

Microsoft Decides To Finally Block Additional Files In OWA, Subsequently Provides Workarounds To Carry On Transmitting Them

September 30, 2019 by Marc Handelman in Cruft, Email Security

via Zeljka Zorz, Managing Editor at HelpNet Security, comes news of Microsoft Corporation's (NASDAQ: MSFT) dollar-short-and-day-late decision to block an additional forty additional file types from their deeply flawed Outlook on the Web product... Oh, and thanks for the work arounds...

'Microsoft also pointed out that blocked files can still be sent and received, either by renaming them (and making the recipient change the name again), compressing them into an archive file, or saving them to the cloud or to a secure network share server and sending the link to them.' - via Zeljka Zorz, Managing Editor at HelpNet Security, comes news

Et Stulte Corripietur: Falwell's Email Lesson

September 19, 2019 by Marc Handelman in Information Security, Email Security, Things He Made Up

In which, Falwell, Jr. regales all with his stupendous ignorant behavior; whilst - conversely - an outstanding example of superlative reportage by Kate Cox, writing at Ars Techinca.

'High-profile evangelical conservative Jerry Falwell Jr., a staunch Trump supporter and president of Liberty University, wants the FBI to investigate current and former university employees for... forwarding emails.' - via Kate Cox, reporting from Ars Techinca