121 Results from 2012, /security
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...they might just be your increasingly rare fans. A few weeks back a new service started on twitter. @NeedADebitCard collated all the finest photos from the Internet taken by people keen to share their debit/credit card details and design with the world. The instant reaction to this by most sane individuals is ‘what are you doing you idiots?!’ Ba...
17 July 2012 /security Social Banks
Stephen Wilson Managing Director at Lockstep Consulting
The Australian Payments Clearing Association (APCA) releases card fraud statistics every six months for the preceding 12m period. For the first time in many years, Australian card fraud has grown in all categories. The ratio of Card Not Present fraud to all fraud remained steady at just under three quarters. An up-turn in skimming and counter
17 July 2012 /security /payments
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
Some say there will be a day when the wallet you carry in your pocket or purse will become obsolete. The plan is to eliminate all our credit cards, store cards, and IDs and use our mobile phones as our primary means of commerce and identification. The technology behind mobile wallet or mobile POS (point of sale) basically turns your smartphone int...
11 July 2012 /security /regulation
As reported in March, the FBI has uncovered a network of rogue DNS servers and has taken steps to disable them. DNS (Domain Name System) is an Internet service that converts user-friendly domain names into the numerical Internet protocol (IP) addresses that computers use to talk to each other. When you enter a domain name, such as www.fbi.gov, in ...
07 July 2012 /security /regulation
Wi-Fi is everywhere. Whether you travel for business or simply need Internet access while out and about, your options are plentiful. You can sign on at airports, hotels, coffee shops, fast food restaurants, and now, even airplanes. Wi-Fi wasn’t born to be secure; it was born to be convenient. Wireless networks broadcast messages using radio and are...
04 July 2012 /security /regulation
INTRODUCTION Your organization has decided that you must develop new processes, methodologies and technologies to increase the effectiveness and compliance of your sales force. Those you have, the ones that used to bring you great results, are not working or not accepted in today’s economy. You know that if you do not change and adapt, your organi...
03 July 2012 /security /regulation Innovation in Financial Services
Pat Carroll Founder/Executive Chairman at ValidSoft
This week two large-scale fraud scams caught my attention. The first scam sees fraudsters using new and improved Zeus and SpyEye malwares to infiltrate people’s computers, enabling them to steal their personal details so that they can siphon large amounts of money into their own bank accounts. This isn’t the first time that malware has conquered i...
28 June 2012 /security Information Security
Whether businesses like it or not cloud computing has crept into their infrastructures, in some cases under the radar of IT managers and is doing so via consumer technologies such as DropBox, SkyDrive and Oxygen, something which is turning cloud computing into a stealth-like technology. Many organisations have decided to taking a step back before ...
22 June 2012 /security /regulation
I was interested to hear this week that the US consumer watchdog, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has launched a public website that publishes consumer's complaints about credit cards. Interested because this is a novel approach which attempts to put the customer first and follows a spate of high profile data breaches which have forced the g...
21 June 2012 /security Innovation in Financial Services
Kevin Yee Manager at OCBC Bank
Two days ago Finextra reported on the 'hacktivist' Reckz0r. In a nutshell, the hacker claimed initially to have hacked into Visa and Mastercard, and went on to leak hundreds of account info. No worries though, he is a nice grey hat who just wants to expose security frailties, so no card numbers are shown. Later, he explained that, no, it was some ...
21 June 2012 /security /regulation
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