172 Results from 2008, /security
Amit Sharma CEO & Prepaid Consultant at Emotion Associates
Hardly surprising that there is ever more information emerging about consumer details under 'lost or found' - either lost (in transit, on cds, laptops, etc) or found (on items which have been sold, dumped, stolen, etc). Over the past 18 months, there have been repeated disclosures by the government and other agencies about data being 'lost or mispl...
27 August 2008 /security /payments
Retired Member
It has emerged that personal information belonging to thousand's of council tax payers has been found on a computer that was sold on eBay for just £6.99. According to a Daily Mail report, thousands of account numbers and sort codes, as well as names and addresses, were stored on the hard drive, which was owned by Charnwood Borough Council in Leice...
27 August 2008 /security /retail
As shocking as the security blunder reported in yesterday's Daily Telegraph was, organisations would do well not to dismiss it as a one-off blunder. Studies conducted by BT and the University of Glamorgan over the last four years have revealed that over a third of computer hard disks bought on the second hand market contain undeleted sensitive inf
27 August 2008 /security
UK tabloid The Sun is reporting the story of a disgruntled Lloyds TSB customer who changed his phone and Web banking password to 'Lloyds is Pants', only for a member of staff at the high street bank to change it - without his consent - to 'No we are not'. Apparently computer consultant Steve Jetley changed his password to 'Lloyds is Pants' after h...
NASA are busily downplaying news that laptops aboard the International Space Station were infected with a worm which steals user details for online games. It's not clear how the infection occurred but the computers concerned were described as non-critical. You would kind of hope that the mission-critical kit was running something a little more sec...
Just read a fascinating article which examines in some detail how a particularly sneaky bit of malware can fool the unwary Windows user into parting with their credit card details. The malware poses as an anti-virus program - a scam that's been around for years - but an approach that still clearly works - possibly more so nowadays as people start ...
26 August 2008 /security
Uri Rivner CEO and Co-Founder at Refine Intelligence
NASA, The European Space Agency, the Russian and Chinese space programs all set the period of 2030-2040 as the likely target for a manned space mission to Mars. There's a healthy competition going on. The average age of NASA astronauts is 34, but when we talk about commanding a manned mission to a heavenly body, more experienced people take the he...
26 August 2008 /security Online Banking
I can imagine that the folks who have their products defeated by hackers and researchers aren't too happy having their problems aired, however it just doesn't make any sense to me to become protagonists in court with the universities or any other researchers. For example, the current instance of the subway tickets, these attacks require some exper...
23 August 2008 /security Whatever...
Most Australian banks have successfully rolled out two-factor authentication, which means the security spotlight is starting to shift to the weaker links in our online economy. Whether its retailers looking to offer financial services, or online social finance sites like Wesabe or Mint, it seems security vendors and analysts have found a new fish ...
21 August 2008 /security Trends in Financial Services
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
UK computing title The Register says it has alerted Apacs to an underground forum post spotted by Net security firm PrevX that suggests expertise on defeating anti-tampering protection on older Chip & PIN card terminals can be bought for as little as $4000. One thread, posted in early July, is from someone in the UK asking for information on h...
14 August 2008 /security
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