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The risks from Cyber cime - Hacking - Loss of Data Privacy - Identity Theft and other topical threats - can be greatly reduced by implementation of robust IT Security controls ...
The UAE and Saudi Arabia have banned certain communications services available via Blackberry devices in their countries, simply because the data leaving the device is encrypted and this makes the dat...
100% security doesn’t exist. The frustrating truth is that almost every organisation will suffer a security breach at some point. Whether it is the defacing of a website, loss of data through a Troja
The online banking systems offered by the Lloyds Banking Group (including Bank of Scotland & Halifax) and the Royal Bank of Scotland Group (including Natwest, Royal Bank of Scotland & Ulster b...
In the past decade there has been a sharp increase in focus on the security of cardholder data held by third parties. High profile data breaches and the associated losses resulting from the fraudulen
The National Payments Plan progress report that was published in June highlighted the Payment Council’s continued focus on alternative payment technologies such as contactless. The two-year progress u...
Fraud is serious business. A recent report from PwC cited that hacking attacks overall are costing UK businesses at least £10bn a year. Fraud reduces customer confidence and brand integrity. Merchant
Payment card fraud statistics are not published by every country, which is one reason why the UK’s statistics are so often reported and quoted, and are used as evidence of the impact of the introducti...
On September 23, 2009 I discovered a vulnerability on Barclays online banking service which permitted a remote adversary to peruse customer bank statements. Barclays were immediately notified, but def...
What’s it going to take to get contactless payments off the ground? Contactless card payments have been proving more of a slow burner than a big bang, and the introduction of mobile phones with embedd...
If you don’t live in a large city, the revolution in mass transit payments that has taken place over the last few years may have passed you by. Cities as far apart as Melbourne, Beijing, London, Salt ...
Quite a few countries around the world had passports of their citizens copied as part of the assassination of Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. While the photos disemminated by the media were undoubt...
It has now been two weeks since we published our paper “Chip and PIN is broken”. Here, we presented the no-PIN attack, which allows criminals to use a stolen Chip and PIN card, without having to know...