147 Results from 2014, /security
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When you are on a crowded bus, you don't know who is standing next to you and what that person is up to. There are a lot of weird and obsessed people out there... Now, imagine your own car - what would you feel if after a couple of hours on a motorway, driving at high speed, you turned around and saw a complete stranger in the backseat... That's e...
10 January 2014 /security Innovation in Financial Services
Pat Carroll Founder/Executive Chairman at ValidSoft
This itnews.com article sheds a different and interesting light on the methods now being deployed by the fraudsters. Basically these latest tactics are designed specifically to outwit the Risk Engines. Risk Engines work on the principle that if a transaction seems “normal” the risk engine will generally approve the transaction. Of course there
Are your payment systems safe and secure? Being a bank, financial institution, processor, merchant or a stakeholder of any part of the payment ecosystem then you most definitely have this thought on your mind and your organizations risk register. Securing your payments systems is very similar to securing any other asset in the physical/digital worl...
09 January 2014 /security /payments
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
Shopping online can be just as dangerous to your security as leaving your car unlocked in the mall parking lot. Consumer Reports notes the following: Don’t judge a website by its cover. A malicious website can look legitimate, even though it aims to nab your personal data, even identity, or sell counterfeit products. Others aim to lure you in “wi...
08 January 2014 /security
A thief got a hold of woman’s debit card information and raided her bank account. This true story is described in a recent St. Louis Post-Dispatch article. Thieves can wire money over the Internet and get the cash by showing a false ID, says the article. This kind of fraud is more common than people think. In the woman’s case, Visa detected the t...
06 January 2014 /security
It’s easy for millions of passwords to be stolen via hacking into Facebook, Twitter and Gmail accounts: It recently happened because malware was unknowingly downloaded into computers worldwide that extracted log-in information. The data was then directed to the hackers’ server, which was tracked to the Netherlands. A password is never 100 percent ...
04 January 2014 /security
Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia
Catching up on online reading after some self imposed offline holiday time I was just reading about the latest US retailer to be plundered for customer personal and card data. For those who also missed it, between November 27 and December 15 customer names, credit and debit card numbers, card expiration dates and magstripe data were stolen from ab...
02 January 2014 /security /retail Future Finance
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