Porn domain not that sexy: no rush to have .xxx
While their is a huge hype surrounding .xxx domains and companies rushing to buy them to protect their brand, it seems that registration data disagree with this. My analysis of the 50000 most popular websites in the world shows that only 24% of them actually registered their .xxx domain.
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Google Docs Used in a Spam Campaign
It seems that today an old spamming technique is back from the dead with a new twist. Google docs spam is back but this time the spam is propagated via emails not the Google doc sharing feature.
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What Phishing Sites Look Like ? (Study)
In this post we are going to take a closer look on what are the current phishing tactics employed in the wild. The trends uncovered by analyzing our new data-set of 5000 recents phishing sites will change the way you think about phishing.
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Evolution of the HTTPS lock icon (Infographic)
Since the introduction of HTTPS by Netscape, the lock icon have been the indicator of choice to tell users that their communication is secure. Over the years, this “prestigious” icon shape and position kept changing from browser to browser and from version to version so I made a couple of infographics to illustrate this. I hope you will enjoy them 
How to physically secure your credit card
In this post I want to share with you the two simple steps I came up with to “harden” my credit card security against theft and duplication. In a nutshell, this hardening technique works by removing all the extra information written on the credit card (signature and security code) that are not necessary for it work and are valuable to an “attacker”.
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