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Matt White North America editor at Finextra
Boffins at Carnegie Mellon University have developed an online game designed to teach Internet safety. Anti-Phishing Phil sees our fishy hero swimming in a sea of worms (URLs). He/we must work out which worms are safe to eat and which should be rejected. Okay, so it’s not exactly World of Warcraft, or even Sonic the Hedgehog, but nice to see an ...
20 September 2007 /security
Retired Member
A well-meaning member of our team forwarded this message earlier: If somebody called bm_tnoo7@hotmail.com adds you to their facebook account DONT accept it because its a hacker. Tell everyone on your list because if somebody on your list adds them you get them on your list he'll figure out your ID computer address. So copy and paste this message t...
19 September 2007 /security Whatever...
Cars, jewelry and holidays...for 10 people..that was a lot of money stolen! I just blog'ed this past Wednesday about the lack of news about people getting caught and prosecuted for phishing (http://www.stealingmoney.blogspot.com). It's refreshing to see something actually being done in this case.
14 September 2007 /security
Fyodor, the author of the popular Nmap FOSS for network exploration or security auditing, has released the list of the top 100 network security tools (excluding Nmap). He has compiled the list based on the responses from 3,243 people in the Nmap mailing list. Relating to my post on the malware attack on BoI, I think that the sysadmins of the bank...
04 September 2007 /security Information Security
Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia
News this week from Las Vegas about telcos offering rewards for information on thieves stealing live cable got me thinking about the possible cause of Internet bank Egg's woes this week. C&W, which provides Egg's web hosting, says it was having to put in re-routes to take customers away from the fault while they isolate it. If they find that t...
24 August 2007 /security /retail
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
UK payments body Apacs published a PIN security advice guide for consumers late last week reminding cardholders of the continued threat from counterfeiters and shoulder surfers. Despite the introduction of Chip and PIN technology in the UK, card skimming and the subsequent use of cloned cards in overseas networks remains a lucrative business for t...
20 August 2007 /security /retail Futuristic Banking
Interesting to watch the increasing trend in the security industry of thinking more about insider threats. Is this because companies are feeling more on top of the external hackers and viruses, or a growing awareness of the need to control outbound information flow as well as inbound? Certainly there have been more press articles on this topic of...
15 August 2007 /security Information Security
As discussed last year, the inevitable has occurred. A couple of questions ; a) can MitM attacks successfull against token based two factor authentication b) how will software based authentication used by a few UK and Canadian Banks work against these attacks. Security vendor RSA is reporting an increase in the amount of free 'man-in-the-middle'
10 August 2007 /security Trends in Financial Services
The Register has an article on a plug and play phishing kit which automates the installation of a complete phishing site. Handily it's a single file (PHP script) which handles the whole tedious business of creating the relevant directories and installing the various files you would need to run a specific phishing site. In testing the RSA phishin...
10 July 2007 /security
Fidelity National Information Services has disclosed an embarrassing instance of data theft by an employee of its Certegy payments processing subsidiary. The misappropriated information included names, addresses, and telephone numbers as well as, in many cases, dates of birth and bank account or credit card information. Approximately 2.3 million re...
03 July 2007 /security /retail
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