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The latest fad amongst phishers is calling up and claiming to be from the courts and the police. Australian Fraud Squad detectives have today issued a warning following several reports in the past 24...
The obvious solution would be to look for a substitute, rather than try and do the same old card thing. I think everyone is pretty convinced that we'd like to lose the cards, especially if it means lo...
Reading between the lines, regulators will continue to take a big stick to institutions that leak personal data. And so they should. But there must be a more artful approach to stem the flood of s
Association of Corporate Travel Executives advice to business travelers states: That you should not carry any confidential, personal information that you do not want examined by third parties on you...
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...
The Register is reporting that determined hackers have injected malicious code into pages on supposedly reputable web sites. The compromised pages were attacked via SQL injection - this is typically w...
While I commend Secure Identity Systems on their efforts and encourage ID protection programs, I fail to see much use for a system which merely shouts from the gate saying 'Your identity is gone!' No...
I get a the feeling that the government is more than a little miffed that their own data leak severely wounded their ID card proposal and that someone is going to pay. I suppose it distracts from the ...
What do they have in common? Recently border officials have began a dubious practice of collecting mobile phones, PDA's, memory sticks, and even whole laptops and copying the information for 'security...
A little reality check on the security front. Personal Closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras in public places in the U.K.: 5 million Average number of times a Briton is filmed on CCTV in one day...
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...
‘World’s First Large-Scale Use of Information Cards in the Public Sector’[1] Eduserv to Streamline Access and Identity Management Future Plans to Provide All Councils and Residents with Information ...