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Mr. Jenik has 17 years of experience in the Computer Security field. From the early days of computer viruses he was interested and involved in the fields of encryption, security vulnerabilities detection and research. He worked as a programmer, team leader and project manager in several startups before co-founding Beyond Security in 1999. Aviram has a B.Sc. in Computer Science with a major in cryptography and an MBA from T.A. University with majors in strategy and entrepreneurship.
Except where otherwise noted, all postings by Aviram Jenik on CircleID are licensed under a Creative Commons License.
As far as facebook is concerned, your email is your identification. This is true for other social networks like linkedin, and is slowly catching on to many other Web 2.0 services. It actually makes a lot of sense that your unique identifier (your "ID") would be your email -- it's unique by definition, it's easy to remember and most services need the email information anyway... So if email is destined to become the equivalent of your social security number or identification number (depending on which country you live in) how do we proof check that the email address we typed does not contain any typos? more
You all remember cybersquatting, a popular sport in the late 90s, right? McDonalds.com, JenniferLopez.com, Hertz.com and Avon.com thankfully all point to the right web sites today, but thaiairline.com, mcdonald.com, luftansa.com, gugle.com, barnesandnobles.com and other misspellings are fake web sites intended to trap the casual surfer with a hand that's a bit too much quicker than the eye... If you want to go to the McDonalds web site, you don't even spend the 10 seconds to look it up -- you will type McDonalds.com and expect to see the latest dollar meal menu. But the same is true for the other popular form of communication -- email... more
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