Category Archives: snail mail

Smashing Security podcast #408: A gag order backfires, and a snail mail ransom demand

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What happens when a healthcare giant’s legal threats ignite a Streisand Effect wildfire… while a ransomware gang appears to ditch the dark web for postage stamps?

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Israel Cyber-Attack Bombing, New Google Privacy Settings, Traditional Mail Blackmail Scam

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This is your Shared Security Weekly Blaze for May 13th 2019 with your host, Tom Eston. In this week’s episode: Israel bombs a building in retaliation for a cyber-attack, Google adds more privacy settings, and a new blackmail scam that uses tradit… Continue reading Israel Cyber-Attack Bombing, New Google Privacy Settings, Traditional Mail Blackmail Scam→

USPS Informed Delivery Vulnerabilities, Holiday Credit Card Fraud, Huge SMS Database Leak – WB43

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This is your Shared Security Weekly Blaze for November 19th 2018 with your host, Tom Eston. In this week’s episode: USPS Informed delivery vulnerabilities, protecting yourself from credit card fraud and a huge SMS database leak. Silent Pocket is … Continue reading USPS Informed Delivery Vulnerabilities, Holiday Credit Card Fraud, Huge SMS Database Leak – WB43→

Liar, liar, pants on fire! Barclays phish claims cards explode

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We feel compelled to relay the dire warning from this Barclays snail-mail letter, which we acquired through social media, therefore it must be true.
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Retrotechtacular: Reading and Sorting Mail Automatically

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We often read about the minicomputers of the 1960s, and see examples of their use in university research laboratories or medium-sized companies where they might have managed the accounts. It’s tempting though to believe that much of the world in those last decades of the analogue era remained untouched by computing, only succumbing in the decade of the microcomputer, or of the widespread use of the Internet.

What could be more synonymous with the pre-computing age than the mail system? Hundreds of years of processing hand-written letters, sorted by hand, transported by horses, boats, railroads and then motor transport, then …read more

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