Malta Info Security

Here's a book I give my thumbs up for. Excellent content, well structured and rather easy to follow and understand. Personally I find particular chapters to be a great reference. The author Harlan Carvey has his own blog-spot and there is also a review of this book which can be found here.

A review...

Continue reading "Windows Forensic Analysis - Harlan Carvey"

Posted by Donald Tabone

Cranky Geeks is one of my current favorites Democracy subscriptions. For the latest episode, the host invited Cryptographer Whitfield Diffie and Security Expert Dan Farmer to join the show. It's good to give a face to the people you read about in the books you know

Especially enjoyed it because IMHO Diffie looks a bit like god in his 60's, while Dan Farmer (author of SATAN) looks a bit like the devil. See for yourselves ..

Posted by Sandro Gauci

As reported in the Sunday Times of Malta (Sunday, July 8, 2007)

The Malta Bankers' Association has cautioned bank customers, and in particular Internet banking users, never to give out personal internet or telephone banking user identification details or passwords.

It is never any bank's policy or practice to contact customers and to ask them for such information.

Fraudsters often send forged e-mails, purporting to be from banks, designed to fool recipients into divulging such personal financial data. "Under no circumstances should customers respond to such requests, which could lead to financial loss," the MBA said in a statement.

Customers were asked to forward suspicious e-mails to their bank for further investigation. It also recommended that customers make active use of e-mail filtering software, which helps to identify fraudulent, malicious or hoax e-mails.

Posted by Donald Tabone