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Retired Member
A little reality check on the security front. Personal Closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras in public places in the U.K.: 5 million Average number of times a Briton is filmed on CCTV in one day: 300 Crime reduction in UK credited to CCTV: 5% Americans using the same password for most online accounts: 63% Average number of people with acce...
18 April 2008 /security Information Security
Uri Rivner CEO and Co-Founder at Refine Intelligence
I’m always amused by security companies generating PR with a title such as “Phishers take aim at XYZ!”. So I was amused as well to see the article titled Phishers take aim at MasterCard SecureCode That’s because Phishers will hit ANYTHING these days. From good old banks, credit unions and building societies, through security programs and governme...
18 April 2008 /security Online Banking
‘World’s First Large-Scale Use of Information Cards in the Public Sector’[1] Eduserv to Streamline Access and Identity Management Future Plans to Provide All Councils and Residents with Information Cards Bath, 17th April 2008 – Eduserv, the not-for-profit IT services group, today announces the launch of a pioneering project to enable ten local a...
18 April 2008 /security /payments Information Security
I don't intend to debate the censorship laws or drinking ages, but it is absolutely neccesary to enable children to prove they are childen, and young adults to prove they are of age. Enter the mobile phone - why don't we use it to let the kids prove they are kids on their chat sites? It might go some way to keeping the perverts out. There is no ab...
18 April 2008 /security Whatever...
When you fail to indicate and get pulled over by a Police Officer, what do they want to know? whether you are a licensed driver if you are 'wanted' whether you were warned about not indicating recently and need to be fined to teach you properly. Sort of charging a fee to stop and educate you. NOT your name, date of birth, home address, ... ...
17 April 2008 /security /payments Whatever...
Thought I was having deja vu again, but it turns out they ran this survey last year too. Infosecurity Europe polled office workers outside Liverpool Street Station here in swinging London and found 45 per cent of women were quite happy to give strangers (market researchers) their email password in return for a chocolate bar. The figures for men w...
16 April 2008 /security Whatever...
Last October I presented at a meeting in London during RSA Security Europe. I was asked to come up with predictions for 2008 online financial threats. My first prediction was that Phishing will more than double. “Had phishing been a stock”, I said, “I would have bought it”. Pity that I couldn’t. This was a bit before the credit crunch hit the mar...
16 April 2008 /security Online Banking
How would you like to be invisible? From The Invisible Man through Lords of the Rings to Harry Potter, the concept of not being seen fascinated people. Invisible security, on the other hand, is a bit counter intuitive. I mean, you've got to see it – touch it, preferably – in order to feel secure. Surly 2-factor authentication tokens, for example, ...
16 April 2008 /security
Us authorities are warning about new phishing attacks in the form of a subpeona from the US Department of Justice See this image from the NY Times (opens in popup) If it comes in an email DO NOT click on it. Report it to IT immediately. It puts a Trojan and keylogger into your machine. 60% of antivirus software does NOT detect it.
16 April 2008 /security Information Security
News from Vasco yesterday that it will soon be selling smartcard readers via the local corner store has interesting implications for Internet banking security. Such readers have been available in many Asian convenience stores for some time – they make sense in countries where online access to public services is only made available to holders of Gov...
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