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Uri Rivner

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Unlucky 100,000

In light of the festive season I decided not to post anything about new threats and emerging headaches. Instead, I decided to shed some light on the work of the good guys. To the good guys! The post below is based on true events. * * * It was early afternoon time at the large, aquarium-shaped room. The set of huge LCD screens at the front of the Co...

16 December 2008 /security Online Banking

Curse of the Were-Laptop

Richmond, Virginia - Sunday 20:00 EST The storm outside sent wave after wave of heavy rain drops that banged on the large window, trickling down into the garden bushes below. Distant thunderclaps rolled, making the glass vibrate every other minute, not before the bright flashes of lightning lit Jack's study. Jack was browsing the Internet, severa...

24 November 2008 /security Online Banking

October Surprise

I just came back from RSA Conference Europe, which – as always – is an amazing time of the year. One particular perk of this event was the public display of the Engima machine, believed by the German forces of Second World War to be impenetrable, and the story of Alan Turing who broke its codes. The intelligence gathered following the breaking of ...

31 October 2008 /security Online Banking

Google Moves to 3rd Party Processing - The eCrime equivalent

The numbers behind Google's processing are staggering. Indexing over one trillion URLs, the Internet search giant reported in January that it processes 20 Petabytes of data per day. My Word spellchecker says there's no such word as Petabyte. It underlines it in angry red. So I googled it (hey, my spellchecker also says there's no such word as googl...

18 September 2008 /security /payments Online Banking

Malware reaches new heights

Private computers around the world are being infected by malware on a daily basis. Some immediately wear a glazed expression and succumb to the will of their new master – a botnet operator. Others suffer from minor effects. But this amusing news piece takes malware to a new height. 350 km high, to be exact. Wired reported (http://blog.wired.com/27b...

27 August 2008 /payments /retail Online Banking

First Man on Mars - a 13 years old?

NASA, The European Space Agency, the Russian and Chinese space programs all set the period of 2030-2040 as the likely target for a manned space mission to Mars. There's a healthy competition going on. The average age of NASA astronauts is 34, but when we talk about commanding a manned mission to a heavenly body, more experienced people take the he...

26 August 2008 /security Online Banking

Limbo Dancing in the House of Lords

The UK's House of Lords is calling on the government to make banks legally responsible for losses incurred by customers through electronic fraud (https://www.finextra.com/fullstory.asp?id=18699). That's because today's banking code leaves responsibility on consumers. In practice the banks do not typically use the code to that effect, and refund fr...

09 July 2008 /security Transaction Fraud Systems and Analysis

FaaS: Fraud as a Service

"The next sea change is upon us", wrote Bill Gates in an internal Microsoft memo in 2005, relating to the growing phenomenon of Internet-based software applications and services. This memo paved the way to the latest buzz in the IT world - SaaS: Software as a Service. All the big guys are playing. Microsoft, Google, the major security com...

17 June 2008 /security Online Banking

Web 2.0 Banking Authentication

Web 2.0 and banking seems like an interesting mix. This article (https://www.finextra.com/fullstory.asp?id=18544) actually mentions several loosely coupled items related to this: Providing online banking services through widgets in web 2.0 sites such as Facebook, Myspace and others.Integrating web 2.0 functionalities such as wikis and blogs into ...

04 June 2008 /regulation Innovation in Financial Services

Christmas Comes Early This Year

Dear online fraudsters, I've got some good news and some bad news. The good news is that Christmas comes early this year: on May 27th the UK banking industry launched the much anticipated Faster Payment scheme, in which inter-bank money transfers are instantaneous. Let me actually re-phrase: that's great news for you. I bet you're all excited abo...

30 May 2008 /security /regulation Online Banking