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The holiday season is a prime time for fraudsters to target consumers' credit cards and it's not surprising that Dexter has come to light a week before Christmas. Dexter is yet another malware variat...
The EMV (Chip & PIN) protocol requires ATMs and point-of-sale terminals to generate a random number. If this number (known in EMV terminology as the "unpredictable number") isn't random,...
A couple of weeks ago I got a LinkedIn invitation from someone called Tricia Bennett. I don’t know Tricia, and in such cases I’ve developed a best practice of first asking “hey mate, do I know you fro...
Experian figures show just why we need EC3 and an industry strategy for countering Cyber Crime Following recent news from Experian that more than 12 million pieces of personal information have been i...
This week two large-scale fraud scams caught my attention. The first scam sees fraudsters using new and improved Zeus and SpyEye malwares to infiltrate people’s computers, enabling them to steal their...
Here are some further thoughts on the LinkedIn compromise, following my previous blog post. Over the years I did some unscientific research on LinkedIn. Here’s some unofficial statistics I have on Lin...
The recent LinkedIn accounts compromise in which 6.5 million password hashes were published in the Russian hacker community grabbed a lot of media attention. In a hellish period of publicly known brea...
Many of us will have come back from the extended holiday period ready to start the New Year with a bang, only to realise that we’ve forgotten our computer password and can’t do anything until the IT d...