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UK payments body Apacs published a PIN security advice guide for consumers late last week reminding cardholders of the continued threat from counterfeiters and shoulder surfers. Despite the introducti...
Interesting to watch the increasing trend in the security industry of thinking more about insider threats. Is this because companies are feeling more on top of the external hackers and viruses, or a g...
As discussed last year, the inevitable has occurred. A couple of questions ; a) can MitM attacks successfull against token based two factor authentication b) how will software based authentication u
The Register has an article on a plug and play phishing kit which automates the installation of a complete phishing site. Handily it's a single file (PHP script) which handles the whole tedious busi...
Fidelity National Information Services has disclosed an embarrassing instance of data theft by an employee of its Certegy payments processing subsidiary. The misappropriated information included names...
Ever wonder what it’s like to have your identity stolen? Fighting back now, an identity theft Web log set up by Karen Lodrick relates an everyday personal story of identity theft, the lackadaisical ...
Interesting article from Ryan Naraine about hackers and Microsoft's practice of silently fixing vulnerabilities it finds in code. Microsoft claim that by not drawing attention to new flaws this makes ...
See also - Blogging can hurt your employability 1 I was sitting in the waiting room at the Doctors this morning reading an old copy of Cosmopolitan; well I'd never buy a copy - far too raunchy for me!...
Interesting and slightly worrying item on The Register where a fully up-to-date and patched machine running the latest IE7 and Norton 360 was redirecting certain URLs to fake but convincing web sites...
The WSJ has reported that the hackers who made off with the credit and debit card details of 45 million shoppers at TJX, initially breached the firm’s perimeter defences through an insecure wireless n...
Banks and their customers have very different ideas about what constitutes "sensitive data", and what communication should take place if data security is compromised. And one bank in particu...
I am pleased to see that Google has brought its online payments service to the UK. The more payment services choices of global scale and reach we have the better. I wonder how long it will be before o...