Entries by Rodolfo Saccani

Pragmatic approach to security

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This is the presentation that I used in my speech at the 2017 Security Summit in Milan. Security Summit, organized by ClusIt, is the most important security event in Italy. My speech was about protecting from unknown threats delivered via email, the focus was on the relationship between pragmatism and security. In this post I will […]

Anti-phishing techniques and tools

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There is a big illicit business out there and it’s driven by a simple old trick: deception. Deception is at the base of many online black and gray activities, from click baiting to ransomware. Pair deception with email and what you get is email phishing. The target of e-mail phishing campaigns is inducing the victim […]

A real email phishing experience

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There are many email phishing techniques. Some phishing campaigns are mostly automated: a phishing landing page is created and a mass phishing campaign is launched to send victims to the landing page. On the attacker side, humans start getting involved only after the victims have provided personal information to the phishing landing page. Other phishing […]

The Bot

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From time to time a chatbot contacts me. If I have time, I enjoy to find out what kind of script the chatbot follows. This time it was on gtalk. As you can see from the following transcript, the chatbot didn’t care at all about my replies, it just waited for any input on my […]