297 Results from 2009, /security
Steve Ellis Founder at Finextra Research
This Canadian news story has provided a human face - that of a John Rempel - for the people who fall prey to 419 phishing scams. Sadly his unbelievable gullibility (or is that stupidity) doesn't generate too much sympathy from the caring, sharing citizens of the interweb. But my reason for posting a link to this story (and I know 419 scams aren't ...
19 January 2009 /security
Matt White North America editor at Finextra
Barely a week goes by without a data loss story making an appearance on Finextra. A good proportion of these involve staff stupidity so I wasn't particularly surprised when a press release made its way to us claiming 9000 USB sticks are accidently left at UK dry cleaners every year. Data security vendor Credant surveyed 500 dry cleaners and found ...
19 January 2009 /security Whatever...
Retired Member
Downadup aka Conficker is a rather nasty worm which attacks a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The infection rate is going through the roof according to researchers at F-Secure. The figures are sobering with 6.5 million new infections in four days, although some security experts are questioning the figures. Microsoft did release an emergency pat...
It's always worth taking note of anything from the SANS institute so it was interesting to see their latest announcement. They've gathered consensus from experts in over 30 computer security organisations to release the list of the 25 most dangerous programming errors. These are the errors that lead to security bugs and that enable cyber espionage ...
13 January 2009 /security
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
Quality PR from Sophos. I couldn't put it better myself: IT security and control firm Sophos is calling on Twitter to enforce the use of strong passwords by its members following the recent publication of details on how a hacker managed to gain access to Twitter's internal systems earlier this week. According to reports, the teenage hacker, who u...
08 January 2009 /security /retail Finance 2.0
As the inventor of the PATENTED system (6931382 USPTO) that enables cardholders to set their own user limits for their real card accounts, this validates all the work I have done to design and create this patented system. ORBISCOM's patents (tagged as 6636833 and 7136835 USPTO) are clearly limited to what they call 'limited use' card numbers which...
08 January 2009 /security Private Equity Investing in Financial Technology
I'm actually on holidays and of course I come across those fingerprint biometric readers which are being fooled with special tape enabling travelers to perhaps use your identity along with your fingerprints. Terrorists, prostitutes and all manner of criminals continue to roam the world using other people's identities. Good idea that one, just ask ...
06 January 2009 /security Whatever...
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