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Data breaches are becoming all too common -- so common and so large in scale that we are rapidly becoming desensitized to the news. But the effect of a data breach has the potential to crush companies. From the direct financial loss, to protecting consumers whose information has been compromised, to dealing with civil legal issues and penalties an...
05 March 2009 /security /regulation
Just in case your attention is elsewhere this Wednesday.... Would not want you to miss the 3rd Council of Europe Data Protection Day on Wed 28th January 2009 (what happened on the other two?) relating to everything from EU initiatives to the nitty-gritty such as my personal area of interest, document metadata removal. A timely blog last week from ...
26 January 2009 /security /regulation
Matt White North America editor at Finextra
It's good to see BofA getting involved with Twitter but there do seem to be a couple of associated security concerns. The bank is effectively using its feed as a help desk. Its man at the coalface, David Knapp, communicates through tweets with customers who are having issues with their accounts and then, it appears, normally asks for a phone numbe...
16 January 2009
Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia
Fox News has been dogged in its pursuit of scandals going on at the World Bank, including the hacking cases we wrote about in October. To add to Satyam's recent woes, they have now confirmed that Satyam has been banned from working for the World Bank for eight years, starting from September. Apparently the punishment has been meted out for paying ...
23 December 2008 /security /wholesale
Well, at least they do in the US when it comes to protection of personal data. Despite frequent stories about data being handled irresponsibly in the industry, six of the top 20 firms in the Ponemon Institute’s fifth annual survey of Most Trusted Companies for Privacy are financial services firms - and American Express holds on to the no. 1 slot fo...
17 December 2008 /security
Anthony Cossey Project Manager at Fixnetix ltd
Worried about losing your USB Flash Drive? It seems everyone these days are carrying around USB flash drives, see my blog article here on buying a drive http://tonycossey.blogspot.com/2008/08/usb-flash-drives.html Thus everyone now store lots of sensitive information on the drives in their pocket, which is dangerous if you lose the drive......Un...
18 November 2008 /security
One hopes that vetting procedures for accessing Swift's secure SwiftNet network are much stricter than those for its online community forums at swiftcommunity.net. It seems that a Nigerian 419 fraudster was able to register, get a username and password, and send the usual "investment opportunity" email using the internal message system. E...
13 November 2008 /security /regulation
This GEMALTO mini online banking authentication device and IBM's USB dongle stick (whatever its called) are not any better than a simple time-based OTP generator. And no, I don't work for RSA or Verisign or any of these companies that offer these time-based OTP generators. I have been searching for the best multi-factor authentication method/devic
30 October 2008 /security
If you use a 'smart phone' well then it really isn't very secure at all. Probably less so than using the average PC to connect to the internet. Apart from the numerous features available to hackers to exploit, the ease in which a trojan can be installed and various flaws in the network design, you're left with a pretty dumb little computer that is...
12 September 2008 /security
Enthusiasm for the post holiday reading pile is normally considerably less than the gleeful anticipation of packing those paperbacks for reading in sunnier climes, as I am sure you will agree..... A pleasant and rewarding surprise, then (at least in my world!) to return to a 'straight to the point' article on Digital DNA and the dangers of accide...
01 September 2008 /security /regulation
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