Topic: Malware and Phishing – Ctrl blog

Norway’s BankID undermines anti-phishing best practices

2023-02-05T21:38:00Z

Imagine a privatized nationwide authentication system used to access government services, confirm contracts and online payments, and everything else. Now, imagine that the system was designed to be extra friendly to imitation and credential theft (“phishing”). Here’s everything wrong with Norway’s BankID authentication system.

6 places to report phishing emails and websites

2018-12-31T02:27:00Z

Report phishing emails and websites when you encounter them! It only takes a minute and helps protect everyone on the web. Here are six places to report phishing emails and websites.

How to set up ClamAV to periodically scan for badware on Fedora Linux

2016-11-17T12:15:00Z

ClamAV requires a bit of configuration, and as a Fedora Linux user, you must work around some issues with the packages. This tutorial should also apply to other Linux distributions, although some of the tools and package names may be different.

Most of alternate web browsers don’t have fraud and malware protection

2016-08-16T12:49:00Z

There are a lot of web browsers to choose from; each one with all sorts of unique and interesting features! Before falling in love with a new web browser, you should be aware that many web browsers don’t come with fraud/phishing and malware protection services. You should seriously reconsider your choice if you’ve fallen for one of the browsers that have taken a relaxed approach to keep you safe on the web.

Netcraft anti-phishing toolbar breaks on IPv6 enabled networks

2016-07-19T11:58:00Z

Back in May, I discovered an issue with the Netcraft anti-phishing toolbar extension for Firefox that resulted in security information from one website would be inherited by any subsequently website being loaded over IPv6.