Cracking encrypted VOIP?
Labels: Confidentiality, Crypto, Physical
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Labels: Confidentiality, Crypto, Physical
Labels: Authentication, Awareness, Crypto
Labels: Development, ISO27000
HELP HAITI LONDONJust in case you missed the rather obvious signs of a 419 scam such as the rotten grammar and spellings and other inconsistencies, there's a completely unnecessary request for personal information to cap it all off.
13 Liverpool Road,
Islington, London,
N1 0RW
Dear.Friend
On Tuesday, a catastrophic earthquake struck near Port-au-Prince almost the whole of Haiti. The full extent of the damage is still being assessed, but the death toll -- already in the thousands -- is climbing fast.
This is the worst earthquake to hit the area in more than 200 years. Entire communities have been ripped apart and as many as 3 million people have been directly affected, including tens of thousands of American citizens who are in Haiti.
Haiti is racing to confront the enormous devastation -- and the OFA community can help.
Footage is pouring in of homes collapsing, Haitians carrying injured family members, and hospitals being overrun in what was already the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere.
we have directed this means of contact individuals to respond with a swift, coordinated, and aggressive effort to save lives. Personnel from the United States and our partners in the international community are on the ground in damaged areas right now, working side by side with the Haitian people. They're providing food, water, and sanitation supplies, saving lives and helping Haitians,please your help is also needed
Despite the fact that we are experiencing tough financial times now we encourage those who can to reach out and help. It's in times like these that we must show the kind of compassion and humanity that has defined the best of our national character for generations.
PLEASE FOR NOW YOU CAN SEND YOUR DONATIONS BY WESTERN UNION TO OUR HELP HAITI LONDON CORDINATIOR ANN BROWN WITH THE BELOW INFORMATION,NO AMOUNT ITS TOO SMALL HELP AND GOD WILL BLESS YOU!!
Receiver:Ann Brown
Location:London Uk
Email: helphaitinow@consultant.com
send her all related information or call john on +447031842276
Please if you make any donation send us the following informations for reference .
1) Your full name:
2) Sex:
3) Age:
4) Occupation:
5) Mobile / Telephone Number:
6) Country:
6) Nationality:
As this story continues to unfold, I hope you will continue to keep the people of Haiti in your thoughts and prayers, as well as the many Haitian-Americans who have done so much to enrich our country and who are worried about friends and loved ones in this time of need.
Thank you,
David Cole
Labels: Awareness, Social engineering
So, less than 60% of organizations surveyed spend at least 1% of their 'security budget' (whatever that means) on 'awareness training' (whatever that means also). I can't say I'm surprised by that but I'd like to know more and check the original source for details."But respondents also expressed even greater concern over a perceived lack of proper security awareness training for users at endpoints. A whopping 43.4 percent of them said that less than 1 percent of their security budget was allocated to awareness training, and 55 percent said current investments in this area were inadequate.
"I think that's too bad it is that way, but consider that you could cut half of the losses simply by taking care of that problem," Richardson said.
Twenty-five percent of respondents said more than 60 percent of financial losses came from accidental breaches by insiders, not external hacks, and 16.1 percent said 81 to 100 percent of all losses came from accidental breaches as well."
Labels: Awareness
Labels: Awareness, Confidentiality, Development, Privacy
Labels: Awareness

Labels: Authentication, Email, Fraud, Social engineering
Labels: Awareness, Email, Fraud, Social engineering
Labels: Email
"The Disclosure Best Practices Toolkit is a draft series of checklists to help companies, their employees, and their agencies learn the appropriate and transparent ways to interact with blogs, bloggers, and the people who interact with them.The authors evidently have a bee in their bonnet about people disclosing any pecuniary interest in the matters on which they are writing. If adapted to become corporate policies, management may wish to be crystal clear about the limits on employees discussing the organization, its products, customers or related matters in any public forum (including all social media), particularly if all such pronouncements should normally be explicitly sanctioned by Public Relations, Law, Marketing or other interested parties.We believe in the principles of transparency and openness, and this document is a way of making this real on the inside. Our goal is not to create or propose new industry standards or rules. These checklists are open source training tools designed to help educate the hundreds or thousands of employees in any large corporation the appropriate ways to interact with the social media community."
Labels: Awareness, Social engineering
Labels: Awareness, Social engineering