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Gary Wright

Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research

Data Security Myth

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...

/regulation /retail Data Management 101

Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Typosquatting on Twitter and other social networks

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

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Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

How to prevent social media identity theft

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

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Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

ATM Skimming Foiled By Evangelist

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.

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Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Botherders have taken control of 12 million new IP addresses

Lexis Nexis, which owns ChoicePoint, an information broker I recently blogged about that was hacked in 2005, was just hacked again this week. On Friday, LexisNexis Group notified more than 32,000 people that their information may have been stolen and used in a credit card scam that involved stealing names, birth dates and Social Security numbers ...

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Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Information Security, Lies and Social Engineering

Social engineering is the act of manipulating people into performing certain actions or divulging confidential information. While similar to a confidence trick or simple fraud, the term typically applies to trickery or deception for the purpose of information gathering, fraud, or computer system access; in most cases the attacker never comes fac...

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Retired Member 

Bad Data is Out of Fashion

Every day, I get email and snail-mail delivered faithfully, eagerly and hopefully into my mailbox by some organization that has spent time and money with the singular goal of delivering their message to little ol' me. They have either dedicated resources or paid to find my name and my address. Unfortunately, these same resources haven't bothere...

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Financial Crime - drowning in a sea of Alerts

Today, large financial institutions have dramatically grown the variety of their products and services. At the same time they have similarly increased the type, number and sophistication of touch points by which customers can access such products and services. The resulting greater complexity has coincided with the so-called ‘third wave’ of tech...

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Keith Appleyard

Keith Appleyard IT Consultant at available for hire

Scrutinise your pandemic contingency plans

With the number of confirmed swine flu cases continuing to rise, a global benchmarking survey of financial institutions has revealed that, although over 70% of firms have a pandemic-specific business continuity programme in place, many may be dangerously out of date. https://www.finextra.com/fullstory.asp?id=19996 30% of those programmes have not ...

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Formula for Success?

I recently attended breakfast presentation on testing and quality hosted by Logica. Nothing unusual in that you might think, but this one was as it included an interesting insight from the world of Formula One. Mark Preston – technical guru with time at Arrows, McClaren and Super Aguri - took us through what can and does go wrong in Formula One, wh...

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