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 
Five Surprising CAPTCHA Schemes
Since I started doing research on CAPTCHA security two years ago, I have relentlessly collected samples of all the different schemes I have encountered. In this blog post, I want to share with you five of the most crazy, funny, and interesting schemes I collected.
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Web Security Trends 2010
Over the last few months, with Jason and Baptiste we have gathered a lot of statistics about the web security to get a better understanding of how the situation evolves and where doing research will be the most effective. While some of these statistics have already been used in our papers or for our web security class (CS241), many of them are still undisclosed. Since this kind of statistics seems to trigger a lot of interest based on the feedback I received while giving a talk or a lecture , I thought they will make a great first post for my blog rebirth. Overall we gathered statistics in three different direction: server security, browser security and web security awareness.
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