Tag Archives: Opinion

Wearables: where’s the security risk?

At a recent conference on “the future of wearables” I was asked to speak about security. I think my presentation surprised some people because I didn’t focus on the security of wearable devices themselves. This article summarizes what I said, with a link to my slides and some free resources you might find helpful. For

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Criminals, Linguistics, Literacy and Attribution

In an article I wrote recently for Infosecurity Magazine – Spelling Bee (Input from the Hive Mind – I touched on the topic of textual analysis (in a rather loose sense). This was in response to some comments implying that it’s a good indicator of scamminess when a message uses US or UK spellings inappropriate to

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Support Scams, Malware and Mindgames without Frontiers

Introduction It might not have escaped your notice that I write quite a lot about support scams, an issue in which most commentators in the security industry take only sporadic interest and tend to regard as of only niche interest. (As when a scammer is damaging their brand or product in some way, for instance

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