Here’s a good scam! Very nicely done, they only messed up in a few places. Normally when you get a phishing attempt, from “ebay” or whoever, the fastest way to tell is to hover on the URL and see that it really links to “www.scammerhome.net”. This one avoids that, by using a cleverly crafted ebay […]
Neat eBay scam I discovered Read More »
Got back yesterday from a sort of Busman’s Holiday. We took 6 days off and visited a really brilliant technology and security festival, held every 4 years in The Netherlands. The event is called Hacking At Random, and, as the name suggests, involved a lot of people sat behind computers in a field! However, it
LockCon #2, at HAR Read More »
Got back yesterday from a sort of Busman’s Holiday. We took 6 days off and visited a really brilliant technology and security festival, held every 4 years in The Netherlands. The event is called Hacking At Random, and, as the name suggests, involved a lot of people sat behind computers in a field! However, it
LockCon #2, at HAR Read More »
According to this week’s New Scientist, there is a new threat to our credit cards from Russia, which the banks and everyone else totally overlooked. Yet it is obvious, even without hindsight. The why is obvious – millions of dollars there for the taking. The how is very neat – a card is used to
A new threat rises, in the (near) East Read More »
My advice to you last time about going away is to be circumspect in public and specific with those you know and trust. Especially be aware of systems like Twitter and Facebook, where your updates will often make it clear that you are not at home, and for how long. Just in the last few
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I’m back, refreshed from a week away, my first proper holiday for some years. Yet I left no online message on the blog to tell our customers. The reasoning is obvious, though some would argue there is no harm, it only takes a few moments to work out where we are based – click the
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Discreet Security has just signed up as the linked provider of the Pickbuster anti-bumping solution. You can view our new microsite on the Pickbuster website to verify this: http://www.pickbuster.co.uk/Discreet Security Pickbuster is a relatively simple and low cost solution to the problems presented by lock bumping. Lock bumping has been known for nearly 100 years
Pickbuster authorised agent for Birmingham and the West Midlands Read More »
Finally we have had time to stop locksmithing and sit down to update the Discreet Security main website, following our move from the North West to the West Midlands. We also now have tenburylocksmiths.co.uk and bromyardlocksmiths.co.uk as well, which should help with the search engines and getting our new area more aware of our services.
A site I frequent, Lockpicking101.com, recently had a small competition, wherein one member challenged the rest to find out his first name, for prizes based on the time it took. He doesn’t use his firstname, and goes by his second name at all times, even on legal stuff. So a lot of people started trawlling
Social engineering in action Read More »
Ah! Fame at last! We have arrived on teh intarweb! Just deleted 395 spam comments. All from the last two days! Some form of CAPTCHA shall be added forthwith. Edit: Some form of CAPTCHA is in place already, but the bots seem to have wised up to it! Or else they learned basic maths… Time
