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Security

Why the Smb Is Most at Risk from ms12-010

There’s a lot of hubbub going around about the recent vulnerability from Microsoft. It’s called MS12-020 and it affects the Remote Desktop Protocol (a.k.a. RDP or Termina

By Casey Ellis · 18 Mar 2012
Security

Rdpcheck Checks Your Network for the New Rdp Vulnerability

We’ve created a tool at RDPCheck to help you test your exposure to an attack from the outside on Microsoft’s recent MS12-020 Windows Remote Desktop Protocol security flaw

By Casey Ellis · 05 Mar 2012
dontgetpwned

The Golden Rule of Avoiding Fraud

This is a simple one that I told my mother-in-law the other day. It won’t protect you from everything, but it will greatly reduce your exposure. Don’t comply with an

By Casey Ellis · 05 Dec 2011
Building

Mike Montiero – f*** you. Pay me.

Excuse the profanity, but this is really worth watching. [2011/03 Mike Monteiro F*** You. Pay Me.](http://vimeo.com/22053820) from San Francisco Creative Mornings on

By Casey Ellis · 14 Nov 2011
Security

The Market for Stolen Credit Card Data

This is a ridiculously awesome post from Dancho Danchev which dives into the mechanics of the sale, distribution and fraudulent processing of credit cards on the Internet

By Casey Ellis · 04 Oct 2011
dontgetpwned

Is a 3 Year Old All that's Between You and Getting pwned?

Here’s some food for thought… Would you trust a 3 year old: * …with access to your mortgage? * …to keep your house secure? * …with the security of your bank accounts

By Casey Ellis · 22 Sep 2011
Building

Outsourcing — Use a Nom De Plume

If you’re like me and have one identity that you use for everything here’s a tip that will save you a bunch of pain… Any time you go out to market offering work, asking

By Casey Ellis · 09 Aug 2011
Policy

Privacy and Confidentiality — Yours or mine?

WARNING: Mild rant ahead. I’m writing this post to out a particular behavior that I am seeing more and more often lately. Example 1: Whilst activating a prepaid

By Casey Ellis · 21 Jul 2011

Back in the Blogosphere

Another quick one… Since my last post a lot has happened! New members to the Bugcrowd team, new products being released, and Internet regularly and spontaneously catchi

By Casey Ellis · 06 Jul 2011
Policy

What Is Disposable Email and Why Do I Care

One of the complaints I hear ALL THE TIME goes something like this… Ugh, I have so much SPAM in my inbox… Even with filtering I still spend about half my time sortin

By Casey Ellis · 04 Feb 2011
Security

Credit Card Security — Silo Your Risk

This is how you need to think when it comes to credit card fraud: I am going to get pwned one day. What measures can I put in place to proactively minimize the damag

By Casey Ellis · 02 Feb 2011