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In light of the festive season I decided not to post anything about new threats and emerging headaches. Instead, I decided to shed some light on the work of the good guys. To the good guys! The post b...
Richmond, Virginia - Sunday 20:00 EST The storm outside sent wave after wave of heavy rain drops that banged on the large window, trickling down into the garden bushes below. Distant thunderclaps rol...
I just came back from RSA Conference Europe, which – as always – is an amazing time of the year. One particular perk of this event was the public display of the Engima machine, believed by the German...
The numbers behind Google's processing are staggering. Indexing over one trillion URLs, the Internet search giant reported in January that it processes 20 Petabytes of data per day. My Word spellcheck...
Private computers around the world are being infected by malware on a daily basis. Some immediately wear a glazed expression and succumb to the will of their new master – a botnet operator. Others suf...
NASA, The European Space Agency, the Russian and Chinese space programs all set the period of 2030-2040 as the likely target for a manned space mission to Mars. There's a healthy competition going on....
The UK's House of Lords is calling on the government to make banks legally responsible for losses incurred by customers through electronic fraud (https://www.finextra.com/fullstory.asp?id=18699). That...
"The next sea change is upon us", wrote Bill Gates in an internal Microsoft memo in 2005, relating to the growing phenomenon of Internet-based software applications and services. This memo p...
Web 2.0 and banking seems like an interesting mix. This article (https://www.finextra.com/fullstory.asp?id=18544) actually mentions several loosely coupled items related to this: Providing online ba...
Dear online fraudsters, I've got some good news and some bad news. The good news is that Christmas comes early this year: on May 27th the UK banking industry launched the much anticipated Faster Paym...
I’ve recently spotted two articles that share a single theme: they basically announce the online fraud fighting world’s equivalent to “A cure to common cold is found!”. The first article is about a c...
I’m always amused by security companies generating PR with a title such as “Phishers take aim at XYZ!”. So I was amused as well to see the article titled Phishers take aim at MasterCard SecureCode T...