2300 Results from /security
Uri Rivner CEO and Co-Founder at Refine Intelligence
"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
Sriram Natarajan Risk Dog at Credit Risk Fraud Cards Professional
I notice a lot of attention in the blogosphere to this article on how the Internet (Google in particular) is turning humanity into a mass of 'thoughtless' nerds with a poor attention span and limited ability to assimiliate useful knowledge. You can read the article here -http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google The author's (Nicholas Carr) tho...
12 June 2008 /security /regulation
Retired Member
A study by Carnegie Melon University has found that legislation mandating reporting of data breaches (and fines) has failed to lower ID theft or it's effects. Is it that nothing has changed and the downside has been built into the balance sheet or is this approach of 'shouting after the horse has bolted' simply a pointless excercise? I would have ...
10 June 2008 /security Information Security
The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), a non-profit organisation involved in the fight against ID theft, has released the 2007 'ID Theft Aftermath' report. This report outlines the 'human' side of ID theft - what effect does ID theft have on victims and their responses and feelings. The report covers victims in the US and hence represents the ...
05 June 2008 /security /regulation
Alex Noble Account Director at McAfee
I was very interested to see two good stories on Finextra today. The first was that around half of Facebook users want to be able to bank through Facebook. The second was that 91% of British adults had concerns about fraud on their phone accessible bank accounts. It seems to me a pretty bizarre set of contradictions. Facebook is a very nice appli...
05 June 2008 /security /retail
Keith Appleyard IT Consultant at available for hire
Full story available at http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/05/30/230883/password-sharing-leaves-nhs-audit-trail-in-tatters.htm Investigators have been unable to trace a doctor involved a medical blunder that ended in a patient's death because staff in a Devon hospital had been sharing passwords. The doctor whose password was being used w...
02 June 2008 /security /regulation Whatever...
Here's something to keep you awake at night - the OECD reckon one in four computers in the US are infected with malware of various forms. It's all highly sophisticated and getting more and more devious as the baddies take over huge number of machines to provide a global botnet to do their bidding. Kits to mount cyber attacks are even available to...
02 June 2008 /security
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
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
Finblog's been out of action for the past ten days after suffering a traumatic amputation of the middle finger at the hands of a faulty lawnmower. I'll spare you the gory details, suffice to say the mangled finger-tip was considered not to be viable for transplantation and now resides in a pickle jar somewhere in the dark recesses of Bristol Infir...
30 May 2008 /security /retail Whatever...
The "typical" ID fraud victim in the UK is a high-earning professional, aged between 26 and 45 and a homeowner, according to Experian's dramatically titled 'Victims of Fraud Dossier', which is based on data from 10,000 ID fraud cases. Experian says more than 6000 victims sought help from its "victims of fraud team" during 2007 ...
28 May 2008 /security /retail
Welcome to Finextra. We use cookies to help us to deliver our services. You may change your preferences at our Cookie Centre.
Please read our Privacy Policy.