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Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
Ever wonder what it’s like to have your identity stolen? Fighting back now, an identity theft Web log set up by Karen Lodrick relates an everyday personal story of identity theft, the lackadaisical attitude of her bank – Wells Fargo – and the grim financial consequences. Six months later and Karen is still dealing with the fall-out from the aff...
25 June 2007 /security /retail
Retired Member
Interesting article from Ryan Naraine about hackers and Microsoft's practice of silently fixing vulnerabilities it finds in code. Microsoft claim that by not drawing attention to new flaws this makes it harder for malware writers to exploit any holes that may be present. However it seems the baddies are some steps ahead. Every time a patch is rel...
21 June 2007 /security
See also - Blogging can hurt your employability 1 I was sitting in the waiting room at the Doctors this morning reading an old copy of Cosmopolitan; well I'd never buy a copy - far too raunchy for me! I noticed they now run a section on careers and Corrine Dauncey a careers expert with www.tiptopjob.com gave some good advice on answering the quest...
07 June 2007 /security /regulation Data Protection Act Issues
Interesting and slightly worrying item on The Register where a fully up-to-date and patched machine running the latest IE7 and Norton 360 was redirecting certain URLs to fake but convincing web sites - including PayPal. Only the unusual extra questions and usual dodgy grammar of the spoof sites gave the game away. Interestingly the problem doesn...
25 May 2007 /security
The WSJ has reported that the hackers who made off with the credit and debit card details of 45 million shoppers at TJX, initially breached the firm’s perimeter defences through an insecure wireless network. TJX has yet to confirm the report, but according to the WSJ, opportunistic hackers used a laptop and an antenna to intercept data moving wire...
14 May 2007 /security /retail
Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia
Banks and their customers have very different ideas about what constitutes "sensitive data", and what communication should take place if data security is compromised. And one bank in particular has an interesting approach to managing the media fall-out when such a lapse occurs. Over the past 6 weeks, a journalist at Computerworld Austr...
04 May 2007 /security /retail Information Security
Hoss Atri Head of Institutional Partnerships at Elifinty LLC
I am pleased to see that Google has brought its online payments service to the UK. The more payment services choices of global scale and reach we have the better. I wonder how long it will be before our banks will provide a similar service. I wonder how worried the likes of Google and PayPal might be about being dis-intermediated by the banks! I h...
13 April 2007 /security /payments
Matt White North America editor at Finextra
Interesting story on the BBC Web site about biometric ATMs. They are being used in India to pay illiterate workers who have trouble with the paperwork involved in collecting their wages from the bank. The ATMs use fingerprint technology to identify card holders and also provide voice instructions for the user. The security benefits of biometric ca...
05 April 2007 /security /payments
I blogged here last August, that it was predicted Man in the Middle attacks would defeat tokens, and sure enough here we go. "The bank says that its customers opened an email attachment that resulted in a virus being executed on their machines. This virus changed their browsers' behaviour so when they went to open the real ABN Amro online ban...
03 April 2007 /security Trends in Financial Services
Chicago-based Mintel, a global supplier of consumer, product and media intelligence, report a new study that suggests younger consumers are shunning online banking. Conveniently later in the press release, they point out that contactless credit cards will come to the rescue and save the day. My view: companies such as Mintel, particularly those...
29 March 2007 /security Trends in Financial Services
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