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IBM is the latest cyber firm to raise the white flag on security admitting that it's an arms race they can't win. “The security business has no future,” announced Val Rahamani, general manager of IBM ...
Humans are flawed, they fall for con tricks. We have to accept that and have a system which expects people to occasionally have poor judgement. Mastercard's system is an example of a flawed process. ...
I am the first to agree that ID is essential infrastructure for business, government and citizens. I do not agree that it should cost £87 billion to provide it. I did a few back of the envelope calcul...
Some interesting numbers The top botnets are capable between them of sending over 100 billion spams per day Less than a million hosts are responsible for the majority of spam Given anywhere from 10%...
"At this year’s RSA, Microsoft will not announce a new company strategy. Rather, we will use this opportunity to ask all who care about online safety to join in a robust and meaningful discussion...
What's going on here then? Police Minister Urges Consumers To Look Out For Credit Card Fraud “There are potentially thousands of customers across all the major banks whose details have potentially end...
Given the regulatory and reputational risk associated with the loss of personal customer data it beggars belief that a top tier bank can still think it's OK to despatch an unecrypted computer disc con...
An already large botnet appears to be growing at an alarming rate - having expanded by 100,000 machines in the last month. Kraken - the malware that infects the victims' PCs - is similar to the Storm...
More's Law ... more or less. More(profit.per.fraud) x More(potential.for.fraud.data.breaches) x More(people.trying.to.commit.fraud) = More fraud Add some economic hardship into the equation somewhere...
The FBI (National White Collar Crime Center - Internet Crime Complaint Center) released their latest 'Internet Crime Report' for 2007. See http://www.ic3.gov/media/annualreport/2007_IC3Report.pdf The ...
The Register have flagged up that the UK banking industry's code has re-affirmed a policy that makes online banking users responsible for losses if their anti-virus or anti-phishing protection is out ...
Our daily life could be very interesting, picturesque and even dramatic. Never dull. There are plethora of institutions and its employees making our existence easier with regulations, anti acts, direc...