This week’s in review

Did you know that two thirds of all phishing attacks are sourced from a single group? This seems like a staggering statistic, except for the fact that we’ve already seen this before. Maybe those plans for world domination just might pay off…

This whole Facebook privacy scare seems to finally be taking its toll on the general public as it seems Google is showing a major increase in trends data sourced from people wanting to delete their accounts. This doesn’t really surprise me much either, as we’ve talked numerous times about how to secure yourself within Facebook. Let’s hope that emergency meeting that was supposed to take place today actually accomplished something.

One of the pioneers of PKI, Whit Diffie, landed a new position today as VP of information security and cryptography of the Internet’s key oversight agency for domain names. The ICANN doesn’t have that much control over many of the domain providers, but I like to think they have enough influence that if Diffie were to make some serious strides, the world could be a better place.