A Series Of Articles Written By Paul Walsh
This Is How Phishing Protection Works; Block Or Remove After Harm Has Been Done
Open Sourcing An App Doesn’t Mean Anything
Fraud Is Growing & So Is The Anti-Fraud Industry
If You Care About Personal Privacy, Google's New End-To-End Encryption In Gmail Deserves A Lot More Scrutiny Than It's Getting
Google DeepMind Has Shown That AI Agents Can Be Given Different Information Than Humans Without Anyone Realising. This Shouldn’t Be Surprising To Techies
Drift: $285M Lost To A Phishing Attack That Should Never Have Worked
Forcing Identity Checks Has Become A Security Risk
If You Wanted Total Visibility Over High-Risk Individuals, You’d Build A Mobile Virtual Network Operator Called Cape
Your Privacy App Can’t Save You & Neither Can Your Mobile Network Provider
4 Reasons Apple Banned Vibe Coding Apps & Why Innovation Isn’t One Of Them
The double-Edged Sword Of The “Unconventional” Mind: Neurodiversity, Power & The People Building Your Privacy Tools
There Contradiction At The Heart Of How Regulators, Banks & Payment Companies Are Handling Consumer Fraud Liability Today
Infiniti Stealer: A New MacOS Infostealer Using ClickFix & Python/Nuitka
The PwC $39bn Fraud Crisis Alarm Is Conflating Telecom Fraud With Consumer Fraud
The Architecture Of Trust: Why Your Mobile Network Is Your Greatest Exposure
The Real Risk Isn’t AI Identity. It’s Permanent Biometric Infrastructure
The Signal & WhatsApp Cyberattacks Highlight A Design Flaw prvc Was Built To Remove
Looks Like Meta Wants To Read Everyone’s Private Messages On Instagram, There’s No Good Reason Given The Cost Of Doing This
Why “New” Anti-Scam Features Rarely Change The Problem
How Attackers Hijack Accounts Like Signal and WhatsApp Using Legitimate Authentication Workflows
Cisco’s Detection-First Marketing Is Why Phishing Attacks Like Scattered Spider Keep Succeeding
Here’s What Happened In The OpenAI Breach. At Least One Mixpanel Employee Fell For A Dangerous SMS Link. Mixpanel Reported That It Started With A Smishing Campaign
Why Zero Trust SMS Stops SMS Fraud At the Moment It Matters Most
When The State Builds A Journalist’s Profile
30 Years Ago This Month I Joined AOL, Where Online Impersonation & The First Phishing Attacks Took Shape
The Hidden Risks Inside Modern Encrypted Messaging Platforms
Anonymity & Privacy Aren’t Optional, They’re the Price of A Free & Safe Internet
The Recent Signal Phishing Attack Exposes A Flaw In Modern Authentication
Not Everything Is Imposter Syndrome, But For Many High Achievers, It’s Always There
When A Zero Trust Firewall is Not A Zero Trust Firewall
How Banks & Payment Companies Can Cut Fraud & Reduce PSD3 Liability By Addressing The Phishing Links That Start Most Scams
The Economics Of A SIM Farm: Why Smishing Scales & Why Our Defenses Aren’t Stopping It
Rethinking Smishing: Why The Telecom Industry Needs A Different Approach
The Myths That Make SMS Phishing (Smishing) Scams More Dangerous
Why Sender ID Verification Is Still Not Protecting People In Ireland From SMS Fraud
How Criminals Test Each SMS Message On Their Own Phone First To Confirm It Will Reach Yours
KT’s $724M Security Pledge Means One Thing: Zero Trust Must Be Applied To SMS
Why Blocking Unverified SMS Messages Will Backfire on Irish Banks
UK SMS Scam Filters Are Failing. The Industry Knows Why, But Keeps Saying Otherwise
Why AI Alone Can’t Protect Us From Phishing
Why Entrepreneurs Think & Communicate Differently & Why That Matters
Why Ireland Shouldn’t Copy The UK’s Failed SMS Fraud Strategy As Regulations Change
Let Me Explain Why Claude’s Browser Extension Is Both Extremely Impressive & Extremely Dangerous
Zero Trust for Web Links, PSD3 & Why Upstream Fraud Prevention Matters
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