Welcome to Finextra. We use cookies to help us to deliver our services. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you may change your preferences at our Cookie Centre.
Please read our Privacy Policy.

Accept
Channels
Profile
Location
Tel Aviv
Member since
2008
Reads
Writes about
Security Payments Regulation & Compliance Retail banking Financial Crime

Uri's blog archive

2020 (1) 2019 (1) 2018 (4) 2015 (1) 2014 (2) 2013 (6) 2012 (6) 2011 (5) 2010 (28) 2009 (16) 2008 (14)
The Joy of Fraud Fighting
Uri Rivner

Uri Rivner

Chief Cyber Officer at BioCatch
Message Message me Posts: 84 Comments: 36
Bio Internet. The perfect fraud frontier. These are the thoughts of Uri Rivner, Chief Cyber Officer at BioCatch and formerly Head of new technologies, identity protection, at RSA. His continuing mission: To explore strange new cybercrime methods... To seek out new ways Career History Hi. My name is Uri, and I am addicted to fighting Cybercrime. It's been 18 years since I was doing something else. Cannot remember what it was.

Blogs

Online Banking

Social distancing changes our digital behaviors

26 Mar 2020

As the Coronavirus outbreak spreads globally, users are beginning to change their digital behaviors. One emerging trend, not surprisingly, is an increase in the use of Remote Access. Criminals consider RATs - Remote Access Tools - as the perfect cloaking device: it allows them to operate from within the user’s trusted device, gain access from the u...

Digital Banking Trends

Top 10 Cybercrime and Online Fraud predictions for 2020

18 Dec 2019

As a decade of online fraud fighting is drawing to a close, it’s time to think about the next decade! Fraudsters were very busy this decade, coming up with an ever expanding bag of tricks, and we should expect them to give all of us good reasons to continue the fight. So – here are my top ten cybercrime and online fraud predictions for 2020: Deep...

Information Security

State Sponsored Attacks: Is the US taking the gloves off?

15 Dec 2018

It looks serious this time: the Trump administration says it’s ready to hit China with direct sanctions for what the US says is a sustained digital industrial espionage campaign. It’s quite unprecedented – at least as far as US policy is concerned – and is intended to apply real-world pressure on China so it stops what the Western world agrees

Digital Banking Trends

The Perfect Crime

28 Nov 2018

The 1920s were big on criminal mystery novels; this was the decade of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot. Who, like many other famous detectives of his time, had to unlock devious puzzles involving the most twisted criminal schemes. “And the butler did it, at least for the first hundred mystery novels or so. Everyone’s a suspect, and it’s always

See all Uri's blogs

Uri is Commenting on

Hackers behind billion dollar SpyEye malware jailed

  Hats off for the FBI, Justice Dept. and international law enforcement. SpyEye was a gargantuan operation and the arrest of Harderman made more ripples in the fraud underground than any prior hit on key members of the dark economy. Panin did have a gift for designing sleek UIs, though, and paved the way to a lot of modern Trojans with groovy graphics. Anyway - well done, folks.

21 Apr 2016 Reply Read article

Brazil vs. Germany: A Surprising Find

  Forgot to mention: my colleague Oren Kedem added some other findings in a Dark Reading article: http://www.darkreading.com/while-brazilians-watch-world-cup-bank-fraudsters-are-at-work/d/d-id/1297223

12 Jul 2014 Reply Read article

Santander has UK's weakest online banking security - Which?

  Agree with the comments. I recently blogged about this...  https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=8133 Bottom line: security must be balanced with usability, otherwise it defeats its purpose. Having too much security is like having a car with breaks that won't let you move much. You'll say thank you very much, and just pick up another car. I call it 'choosing the path of least security' which is our human nature, as opposed to the implied conclusion in the WHICH report which is that people appreciate security much more than they appreciate ease of use. 

30 Sep 2013 Reply Read article

US charges eight over $45m ATM theft

  Hats off for the arrests. I wrote a commentary on this heist here.

10 May 2013 Reply Read article