Forensic Fantasies – #1: Not a Blackmail

#1: Not a Blackmail The first artwork of the series examines the possibility to blackmail a prior owner of a hard-drive. Besides finding sensitive data of the owner it is crucial to be able to contact the person to express ones demands. From one hard-drive we could find out who it had belonged to, further

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Interview La Repubblica “The Torist & The Dark Web”

[pdfjs-viewer url=http://www.andreaszingerle.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/parmeggiani.pdf viewer_width=620px viewer_height=720px fullscreen=true download=false print=false openfile=false] Repubblica.it Cultura I corsari della letteratura, ecco perché pubblichiamo nel dark web Nelle profondità della Rete non si muovono solo trafficanti di armi, droga e informazioni rubate. Ci sono anche poeti, artisti e scrittori che credono nella lettura anonima. E che adesso hanno una rivista culturale, “The

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Book Chapter: Revealing passwords: Using Social engineering methods to monitor scammer email communication

Title: Revealing passwords: Using Social engineering methods to monitor scammer email communication Author(s): Andreas Zingerle Email: andreas.zingerle (at) ufg.ac.at Published at: Analyzing Art, Communication and Design Technologies Abstract This chapter addresses three social engineering techniques that digilante online communities of scambaiters use for ‘Inbox diving’: an act of gaining access to Internet scammers email accounts.

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Journal article: Towards a categorization of scambaiting strategies

Title: Towards a categorization of scambaiting strategies Author(s): Andreas Zingerle Email: andreas.zingerle (at) ufg.ac.at Published at: International Journal of Art, Communication and Design Technologies The mission of the International Journal of Art, Culture and Design Technologies (IJACDT) is to promote an interdisciplinary research approach to understand cutting-edge theories and practices arising from the influence of

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Neural Revue #52: Let’s talk business at xCoAx Glasgow

  Issue 52 features a report of the xCoAx conference 2015 in Glasgow. Our artwork ‘Let’s talk business’ is featured as well. [pdfjs-viewer url=http://www.andreaszingerle.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/neural_xcoax2015.pdf viewer_width=620px viewer_height=720px fullscreen=true download=true print=false openfile=false]