187 Results from 2011, /security
Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven
We're experiencing a massive shift in consumer behavior right now with the explosion of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other community collaboration and social media platforms. A world where Facebook has 800 million inhabitants and a President who is a college dropout (albeit Harvard). We're seeing the global domination of mobile across the entir...
07 December 2011 /security Innovation in Financial Services
Retired Member
Key to any financial institution is the identification and management of risk. IT compliance certainly fits inside this category, where the implementation of controls to meet compliance also has an awful lot to do with common sense and best security practice. Financial institutions need to keep information confidential and protect the assets of...
01 December 2011 /security Innovation in Financial Services
The first Monday following the US Thanksgiving holiday has become known as “Cyber Monday”; a day in which online retailers promote heavy discounts on merchandise to kick off the holiday shopping season. Cyberspace will be reeling with special offers enticing consumers to buy their products or services and get a jump start on the countdown to Christ...
28 November 2011 /security /regulation
This case is just the latest example of how “trusted insiders” can pose a risk to an organisation’s data security defences and how they continue to by-pass them altogether, only to get found out when it’s too late. It highlights that while most organisations have invested heavily in securing their systems from “external” threats, there has been pr...
Pat Carroll Founder/Executive Chairman at ValidSoft
It’s not every day that you see banking security reported in a tabloid read by 2.7 million people across the UK, but The Sun’s interest in data theft highlights just how mainstream the topic has become. We are just a month from Christmas, and one of the most popular presents of the festive season, Microsoft’s X Box LIVE, has been targeted by crimin...
24 November 2011 /security Innovation in Financial Services
Happy birthday, Isis! This week sees the one-year anniversary of the initial launch of Isis, the US joint venture formed by AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless to create a national mobile payments network that will allow consumers to use their phones to pay for goods at the point-of-sale using NFC technology. The opportunity for NFC take-up i...
18 November 2011 /security Innovation in Financial Services
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
Information technologies have evolved to a level at which the developers, programmers, and security specialists all know what they’re doing, and are able to produce products and services that work and are reasonably secure. Of course, there’s always room for improvement. Despite the amount of criminal hacking that goes on, users who effectively im...
14 November 2011 /security /regulation
With the UK’s “Get Safe Online Week” drawing to a close today, hopefully awareness of fraudulent online activity is on the up. The campaign highlighted all sorts of risks consumers may face with online banking, online shopping and their use of smartphones to browse internet websites, and explained how they could take care and be aware. Unfortunate...
11 November 2011 /security Information Security
In view of many eSecurity projects launched by banks & governments to secure their online services and organizations to secure remote access-control/ information assets, lets pause a little to reflect on key lessons in the last 10 years. Much of the lessons I will summarize below come from experiences within the Nordics, but hopefully are gene...
09 November 2011 /security /retail Information Security
Five or ten years ago, it was relatively easy for scammers to trick people into opening email attachments that would launch malicious programs on victims’ PCs. Nowadays, most email providers won’t permit .exe attachments, so viruses may be saved as compressed files, or hidden behind links that appear to lead to PDFs or word documents. Scammers hav...
04 November 2011 /security /regulation
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