172 Results from 2008, /security
Retired Member
Councils in Sydney, Australia (and other cities) are tracking trash, with RFID chips (like 'smart' cards) being placed on rubbish bins and bins being weighed during the collection process. This provides the council with a record of exactly how much waste is coming out of your household. Councils say that it isn't to help with the 'war on terror', ...
14 April 2008 /security Going green
The US Administration is considering a Manhattan type project, where they get all the smart guys together to work out a way to solve a problem. In the 1940's it was a race to nuclear dominance, this year it's a race to internet dominance. The major thrust of the large scale of penetration attacks on the US government and defense contractors seems t...
14 April 2008 /security /regulation Information Security
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
Two of the UK’s biggest banks, Barclays and NatWest, have moved to make subscription to MasterCard SecureCode and Verified by Visa mandatory for debit card payments made online to approved merchants. I know this because I recently tried to pay off my credit card bill and was forced to sign up for the card scheme security standards. This entailed a...
14 April 2008 /security Trends in Financial Services
As part of the 'War on Terror' Australian bosses will soon be able to legally read their employees email. Do we really have to? I can see some executive wage pressures. This is apparently neccesary to spot terrorist risks, according to the government. I can see a training opportunity here - someone will have to teach the executives how to read, in ...
14 April 2008 /security /regulation Whatever...
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 ISS and of security and privacy for IBM Global Technology Services. Rahamani went on to say: “It’s time to give up on the fantasy that education and a...
12 April 2008 /security Information Security
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. The human can be fooled into giving away the key to the system. This make it useless in at least 5% of the cases. The human is just going to be fooled...
11 April 2008 /security Whatever...
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 calculations assuming: The British Government can do back of the envelope addition, division, multiplication etc It would cost the rest of the EU and wo...
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% to 60% of all Windows PCs are supposedly infected with some sort of malware (depending who you listen to) you might expect more machines to be spammi...
10 April 2008 /security
"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 about building a more trusted Internet." "We believe there are three key pieces to creating greater trust on the Internet. The first is cre...
08 April 2008 /security Information Security
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 ended up in the hands of criminals. — Media Release from David Campbell MP, Police Minister Urges Consumers To Look Out For Credit Card Fraud, 28th Marc...
08 April 2008 /security /retail Whatever...
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