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I must admit to sometimes getting a little overwhelmed at all the effort it takes to live an eco-friendly life. It's not that I'm not making an effort. I recycle at home and at work. I turn off unnecessary lights, replace burned out incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent light bulb (cfl) ones , use a re-usable cloth bag for shopping, think...
08 June 2009 /regulation /wholesale Going green
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
The scourge of identity theft knows no boundaries. It can happen to anyone: rich, poor, good credit, bad credit. Victims include children, the elderly, celebrities and politicians, even the dead. Identity theft may include new account fraud, account takeover, criminal identity theft, business identity theft and medical identity theft. Most of thes...
06 June 2009 /security /regulation
Interested in the Finextra community thoughts on Pandemic planning frameworks and dealing with the H1N1 flu (Swine flu) in other countries. In Australia, the regulator has released guideline on planning for pandemics that includes the potential for 25-50% of staff working from home for 6 months - how many systems can last that long untended locally...
02 June 2009 /security /regulation
Barack Obama announced last week that there will be a new Cybercrime Czar in the US reporting directly to the president. We wonder what, if any good that will do. Can he/she be more than a figurehead when the crimes they want to stop originate in the Ukraine or Bulgaria or Indonesia? Will they attempt to burden us with more ineffective regulation?...
01 June 2009 /security /regulation Information Security
Keith Appleyard IT Consultant at available for hire
Merrick Bank has launched a multi-million dollar lawsuit against Savvis, accusing the vendor of erroneously telling it that CardSystems Solutions complied with Visa and MasterCard security regulations. However, do they have a case? The PCI Data Security Standard Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) is a validation tool intended to assist merchants a...
27 May 2009 /regulation Whatever...
Recently, a targeted crime spree hit Staten Island with 250 Sovereign Bank customers caught up in a never-ending technological arms race between criminals and the rest of us. This time it wasn’t the latest hacker sitting at a far away computer in the middle of the night. Rather it was a small gang that used skimming technology and video cameras...
27 May 2009 /security /regulation Information Security
Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research
There has been no end of stories over recent years about the ability of companies and organisations to maintain their data security. Bad news always travels faster than good and we will only ever know about the instances where data security is breached rather than the majority of occasions when data is secure but the quest to achieve total securit...
26 May 2009 /regulation /retail Data Management 101
Typosquatting, which is also known as URL hijacking, is a for of cybersquatting that targets Internet users who accidentally type a website address into their web browser incorrectly. When users make a typographical error while entering the website address, they may be led to an alternative website owned by a cybersquatter. This can lead to fina
22 May 2009 /security /regulation
Two words: you can’t. However, there are several things you can and should do in order to manage your social media identity, which may prevent social media identity theft. What exactly is social media identity theft? It’s a form of cybersquatting using social media sites. If you’ve ever attempted to join a social media, more commonly known as a
19 May 2009 /security /regulation
It's very disheartening when an ATM user has to explain to a bank branch manager what ATM skimming is. I met a charismatic gent on FOX and Friends named Sean Seibel. Sean has a unique job title at Microsoft: User Experience Evangelist. Sean’s job is to be on top of what's new and what's next in technology, in the next 5-7 years. He’s a futurist.
15 May 2009 /security /regulation
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