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Underperforming Security Vendors I know, I try to give it to you gently but someone has to ask. Chris Skinner described it as 'massive' and he was understating it. The latest 'revelation' - a decade l...
The University of Michigan study comes to similar conclusions to our own study - most banks have serious problems. What can I say? There's the easy way and the hard way and it appears are a multitude ...
NXP's attempts to block publication of a research paper detailing alleged security weaknesses in the Mifare chips used in Transport for London's Oyster smart cards has backfired somewhat. The manufact...
Australian credit union BCU has taken a novel approach to online banking security by scanning customer PCs at the point of log-in for security weaknesses. Given Pete's rather scary post yesterday on ...
Disturbing reading on The Register about the amount of time it takes for an unpatched Windows PC to be compromised simply by being connected to the internet - such as you might do when setting up a ma...
The news that users of Barclays' PINSentry device have experienced zero fraud is a powerful endorsement of Remote Chip Authentication (RCA) and an important milestone in the adoption of this approach ...
The UK's House of Lords is calling on the government to make banks legally responsible for losses incurred by customers through electronic fraud (https://www.finextra.com/fullstory.asp?id=18699). That...
Data breach notices have a scalability problem. As the number of notices soars, we need to better define what is a serious breach and what is not. Otherwise, the public drowns in breach notices, many...
If you recall a few days ago there was some discussion around a vulnerability in the Mifare chip - well things are hotting up a bit with the chipmaker taking the University to court to stop the resea...
Egg on face time for executives of Associated Newspapers. The publisher of UK tabloid the Daily Mail has admitted that a laptop containing financial and personal details of thousands of staff, suppli...
The UK daily newspapers and newswires are today picking up on an ongoing case in the US involving system breaches, thousands of stolen PIN numbers, card cloning and money laundering. We've been follo...
The United Kingdom is the most targetted country for 419 scams - those pesky emails which offer millions of pounds after a few minor up-front arrangement fees. Almost a quarter of all Nigerian 419 sca...