While I have a day job, I’ve been moonlighting as a crimefighting superhero for almost twenty years. No, I’m not a billionaire who dons a rubber bat suit to beat up bad guys– I’m instead flagging phishing websites that try to steal money and personal information from the less tech-savvy among us. I have hadContinue reading “Defense Techniques: Reporting Phish”
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SlickRun
While I’m best known for creating Fiddler two decades ago, eight years before Fiddler’s debut I started work on what became SlickRun. SlickRun is a floating command line that provides nearly instant access to almost any app or website. Originally written in Visual Basic 3 and released as QuickRun for Windows 3.1, it was soonContinue reading “SlickRun”
2022 EOY Fitness Summary
I spent dramatically more time on physical fitness in 2022 than I have at any other point in my life, in preparation for my planned adventure this June. My 2022 statistics from iFit on my incline trainer/treadmill show that I walked/jogged/ran almost 700 miles after it was set up on January 24th: Perhaps surprisingly (givenContinue reading “2022 EOY Fitness Summary”
Attack Techniques: Priming Attacks on Legitimate Sites
Earlier today, we looked at two techniques for attackers to evade anti-phishing filters by using lures that are not served from http and https urls that are subject to reputation analysis. A third attack technique is to send a lure that entices a user to visit a legitimate site and perform an unsafe operation onContinue reading “Attack Techniques: Priming Attacks on Legitimate Sites”
Attack Techniques: Phishing via Mailto
Earlier today, we looked at a technique where a phisher serves his attack from the user’s own computer so that anti-phishing code like SmartScreen and SafeBrowsing do not have a meaningful URL to block. A similar technique is to encode the attack within a mailto URL, because anti-phishing scanners and email clients rarely apply reputationContinue reading “Attack Techniques: Phishing via Mailto”
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