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In a week filled with data breach news, it's refreshing to see Visa's chief risk officer call for collaboration to stop fraud, and I applaud, however, there's something very important missing. Collabo...
If one could have a favorite scam, for me it would be “scareware.” My reasoning for this is thats it’s one of the few scams that actually gets through to me. My defenses are pretty good, but I still
Even the most optimistic of pundits aren’t really seeing the light at the end of the tunnel for the credit crunch yet. Organisations around the world have been forced to cut staff, share prices have f...
Up until now, identity thieves have been hunting elephants. But that may soon change. According to this study, small to medium size businesses (SMB's) are the criminal hackers next target. This sh
Every week we learn of a new hack, another breach, credit cards stolen and another identity theft victim. Many have blamed the bad guy or criminal hackers for all the problems we have in the security
This whole PCI DSS compliance thing is beginning to make my head hurt. Here, Visa chief enterprise risk officer Ellen Richey says: "PCI DSS remains an effective security tool when implemented pro...
In one report, RBS admitted that a hacker penetrated a server at their payment processing unit. No one has really provided the details as to how the wise-guys got a hold of the pin-codes. My theory i...
I'm very smart. I'm in the news, I'm on TV, in print, I'm written about constantly in blogs and I'm very very famous. Every day people try to be me and some are very successful at it. I have many ma
The Hammer of the Gods came down on me. I pissed off Led Zeppelins lawyers. It wasn't intentional, I was just a fan. There wasn't even a term for it when I did it. What was it? Cybersquatting. Cybersq...
Information and phisical security in every country is continually at risk as long as identifing documents can be reproduced with ease. While progress is continually made to identify and authenticate
An axiom in business is that we buy from and do business with those who we know like and trust. In the 21st century we have seen CEOs, investment bankers, politicians and those in the highest position...