172 Results from 2008, /security
Uri Rivner CEO and Co-Founder at Refine Intelligence
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
Retired Member
"According to press reports, the investigation began in March after Brussels-based e-payments outfit Atos Worldwide told authorities that cash withdrawals were being made overseas using cards copied from a Belgian cash distributing machine." Investigations got started because of cards copied from a Belgian cash distributing machine. As th...
21 November 2008 /security Transaction Fraud Systems and Analysis
Anthony Cossey Project Manager at Fixnetix ltd
This post is prompted by the recent surge of hackers taking remote control of home computers (http://www.shadowserver.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Stats.BotCounts). All the software mentioned here is free, but read the licence agreement to ensure the restrictions suit you and your computer at home......Leave the IT guys in your company to protect your bu...
20 November 2008 /security
Michael Fuller Former Retail Banker at None
About eight weeks ago I got my wife and I Shell MasterCards from Citi to buy fuel with. This was prompted by the offer of 3% off our fuel purchases at Shell. (6% in the first 60 days from account opening). This morning (17 November) I got a text from Citi telling me my account balance. It was £1600 more than I had expected so I tried to log on to
19 November 2008 /security
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 Information Security
Think you're safe? Try this! (only applies to Windows PC users). It's a bit slow and plodding but it does the job. Yes - it's Get safe online week - an annual UK bash to make the public aware of the risks of being online and this is the fourth year in case it's passed you by previously. This year there's been a bit of a media splash with stories o...
17 November 2008 /security
Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia
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 Information Security
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
A New Zealand woman has come up with a novel low-cost solution to shoulder-surfing at ATMs. Beach Haven-based Sharon Stamper is the brains behind the yellow lines that are now a standard fixture in all Taranaki Savings Bank ATMs. The former "fulltime mother" told the Stuff Web site that the security line creates a "comfort or securi...
12 November 2008 /security /retail
Roy McPherson
Is there anyone out there in either the real or cyber world that is in the least surprised by this article? For me the only surprise is that it's taken the fraudsters so long to latch onto Facebook. Equally I'm fascinated to know whether there are masterclasses held in Nigeria for fraudsters. Only a few weeks ago I received a mail from Nigeria tel...
11 November 2008 /security /regulation
Thanks to all those who responded to my earlier comments about card security. It seems there are different implementations of Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode. Some issuers request only a number of characters from your password to verify the transaction whereas others ask for the full password. Some issuers also annoyingly set certai
08 November 2008 /security
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