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Uri Rivner

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First Class flights and Margaritas on the beach

You spend all year long working, and in summer time you deserve some R&R. Option 1: look after holiday packages. Fly charter, book a reasonably priced hotel, and rent a compact car to do some sightseeing. Option 2: search for the most expensive destination you can find. Fly first class, book an all-inclusive five star resort with morning massag...

23 August 2010 /security Innovation in Financial Services

West Bromich - UK capital of eCommerce fraud!

West Bromwich is a 140,000 sized town about half way between London and Liverpool. It is the largest town in the United Kingdom without its own Royal Mail postcode. It does have a decent football club, though, and the Latin motto on the town's coat of arms translates as "Work Conquers All". It also happens to be the UK capital of eCommer...

05 August 2010 /security Innovation in Financial Services

Fraudsters enjoy a summer holiday

It’s now summer on Triton. Don’t pack your holiday gear though; the average temperature on Neptune’s icy moon, which is about 30 times further from the sun than Earth, is -235 Celsius (-391 Fahrenheit). And the atmosphere isn’t too friendly: Methane and Carbon Monoxide. Personally I think I’ll pass. If you do plan a trip, note that summer lasts 4...

27 July 2010 /security Innovation in Financial Services

Social Trojaning

I went to my favourite fraud underground forum, bought my favourite Trojan kit (I like Zeus), and then I looked through the Build-a-Trojan checkbox list to see what the next step is. Find hosting. Hosting. Yeah, I knew this one was coming. Trojans are not like self replicating viruses: you can’t just spread them and wait for the entire western hemi...

20 July 2010 /security Innovation in Financial Services

Paul the Octopus

He’s done it again! You got to love Paul the Octopus. To those of you living across the pond and not following football (soccer) news, that’s the cute octopus-turned-oracle that managed to predict each and every game Germany played in the World Cup, and foreseen that Spain will beat the Netherlands in the finals. Paul’s feat is outstanding. Th...

12 July 2010 /security Innovation in Financial Services

Mules. Villains or Victims?

In this special post I’m interviewing a brave soul. Lets start with some background: Mule recruitment is an essential part of today’s fraud supply chain. Mules are used to launder money or ship stolen goods out of the country. So what are mules? Villains or Victims? There’s a heated debate. The FBI’s acting chief of Cybercrime division recently

09 June 2010 /security Innovation in Financial Services

Surprising surge of Phishing on nationwide banks

In the last couple of months the RSA Anti Fraud Command Center witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of nationwide US financial brands attacked by Phishing. Ever since the good old days of the initial Phishing attacks in 2003-2004, the share of national banks – those that span across the entire US – has been declining, as the major banks impl...

31 May 2010 /security Innovation in Financial Services

I go chop your dollar !

My sister who works in Paypal sent me this oldie. Didn’t see it before and I thought it’s too fun not to share ;) Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1nKR3gYRY8 I don suffer no be small Upon say I get sense Poverty no good at all, no Na im make I join this business 419 no be thief, its just a game Everybody dey play am if anybody fall mugu, ha...

17 May 2010 /payments Innovation in Financial Services

How many Fortune 500 Companies Compromised? Answer Inside

In the last few weeks I’ve been talking to some of the corporations hit by famous Operation Aurora; the attack that triggered the Google-China virtual war. The CISOs of these companies are facing a daunting task. These incidents reached board-level attention, and left many questions unanswered. How good are the traditional defense mechanisms? What ...

12 May 2010 /security Innovation in Financial Services

America looks for Crazy Ideas

Last month I spoke at RSA Conference, the world’s largest information security convention. Thousands of IT security managers, vendors, journalists and interested parties come over every year to San Francisco’s Moscone center so they can hear about the latest developments, talk about emerging threats and discuss mitigation strategies. The atmospher...

28 April 2010 /security Innovation in Financial Services

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