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Social media has become a playground for adults, teens, and tweens. And like on any playground, when you hit the jungle gym or horseplay on the seesaw, there is always a chance that you may go home wi...
A recent study shows that organized criminals create approximately 8,000 malicious websites every day, or over 57,000 each week. These malicious websites model legitimate websites that we visit every ...
“A prized Vincent van Gogh still life was stolen from a Cairo museum leading to a massive art hunt, conflicting reports about the details of the crime, and plenty of finger-pointing. Five people, me...
Ask yourself a question: do you know where your personal information is held and do you know how secure it is? When you deposit your savings into a bank account or leave your house keys with a trusted...
Zeus is bad and future versions of malware could be much worse; when will we move beyond the exclusive strategy of trying to detect or block nefarious software? So many security specialists continue t...
One of the most common yet underreported causes of data breaches is users’ failure to properly log out of public PCs. Is your work computer accessible to others, perhaps after business hours? How abou...
If Visa’s Payment Security Forum held in Cairo this week is anything to go by, Data Field Encryption projects certainly seem to be on the agenda for banks in the Middle East, Africa, and Eastern Euro...
[I'm surprised I haven't seen anything elsewhere on Finextra on the ACS:Law fiasco] BT has admitted it sent the personal details of more than 500 customers as an unsecured document to legal firm ACS:L...
In response to concerns about privacy and data protection in the context of the use of Biometric data for non Government related transactions, Hitachi Europe would like to clarify several points for
This story shows the lengths to which criminals will go to commit fraud, and the PCeU must be congratulated on breaking this criminal gang. However, it is important that stories like this don't discou...
Insider fraud – a crime committed by members of staff – is now one of the biggest security threats posed to businesses in the UK. I estimate the cost to UK financial institutions is astronomical. Mo
The recent announcement of the multi-channelled Zeus attack on a user's internet banking account is an interesting hypothesis and surely will not be the last when it comes to beating the ever advancin...