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Sriram Natarajan

Sriram Natarajan Risk Dog at Credit Risk Fraud Cards Professional

Watch lists!

There are so many watch lists maintained across the world. The FATF maintains one, FINCEN, and so does Interpol. Reportedly the FBI keeps getting 1600 new 'suggestions' everyday for its list! See here http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/31/AR2009103102141.html?hpid=moreheadlines We need a comparable list of Internet fraudst...

/security /regulation

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Incompatibility in card technology? Not really.

I decided to write this after seeing a summary of Aite Group’s report concerning U.S. cardholders and their experience abroad. It states that “The promise of ubiquitous card payments acceptance falls apart once U.S. cardholders cross their national border” and “an issue caused by incompatible card technology is treated far more seriously by cardhol...

/security /payments Business Knowledge for IT

Stephen Wilson

Stephen Wilson Managing Director at Lockstep Consulting

Kaspersky and his Internet Passport: surely he jests

OMG. Eugene Kaspersky wants an Internet Passport because he says "anonymity causes security headaches and should be outlawed". This is madness. The social repurcussions are surely obvious, while it's not clear what problem it might solve. Most cybercrime is actually linked to an excess of arbitrary identification, with inadequate safe...

/security /regulation Online Banking

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Data breaches and fraud-worse than you think

Today newly released Javelin research shows that the 11% of US people who received one of those "throw-away" data breach notification letters really *are* at greater risk of ID fraud. Experts: if you're not surprised, than you know something that over 300 million Americans don't: our research also shows that actual fraud victims who rec

/security /retail

Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Identity Theft Myths Part 1of3

The National Foundation for Credit Counselors, which sponsors Protect Your Identity Week, has compiled a number of identity theft myths. To support their efforts, the Santa Fe Group Vendor Council Awareness and Education Subcommittee has helped to clarify some common misinformation with regards to this increasingly common crime. Myth #1: There’s n...

/security /regulation

Uri Rivner

Uri Rivner CEO and Co-Founder at Refine Intelligence

Why Security Guards Stopped me in Capitol Hill

It was a sunny day in Washington DC, and I headed towards Capitol Hill to speak at the Cyber Security Ecosystem briefing organized by TechAmerica. I almost didn’t make it: the security guards caught me red handed. I tried to smuggle an apple into the building. It wasn’t a particularly big apple, mind you. It wasn’t an Apple notebook I failed to de...

/security /regulation Online Banking

Steven Murdoch

Steven Murdoch Royal Society University Research Fellow at University College London

Demonstration of CAP vulnerability on BBC One today

This evening (Monday 26th October 2009, at 19:30 UTC), BBC Inside Out will show Saar Drimer and I demonstrating how the use of smart card readers, being issued in the UK to authenticate online banking transactions, can be circumvented. The programme will be broadcast on BBC One, but only in the East of England and Cambridgeshire, however it shoul...

/security Information Security

Elizabeth Lumley

Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted

There's safety in contactless payments

Finextra recently sat down with Richard Allen, principal consultant at Consullt Hyperion. The firm recently set up a dedicated unit looking at card fraud and all the 'scary things' being perpetrated by hackers. The video is here. Although Allen does talk about the success of chip and pin and services like 'Verified by Visa' in reducing card fraud...

/security /payments

Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Identity Theft Myths Part 3of3

The National Foundation for Credit Counselors, which sponsors Protect Your Identity Week, has compiled a number of identity theft myths. To support their efforts, the Santa Fe Group Vendor Council Awareness and Education Subcommittee has helped to clarify some common misinformation with regards to this increasingly common crime. We’ve already disc...

/security /regulation

Cedric Pariente

Cedric Pariente Stanford Certified Project Manager at EFFI Consultants

The Secret of House MD to Solve Any Problem

ANYONE CAN SOLVE ANY PROBLEM WITH THE RIGHT METHOD. In this blog, I'm gonna reveal the secret that any good MD knows. You will be able to solve any problem efficiently and look smart about it :-) To handle a problem efficiently, we need first to describe what a problem is! Once it's clear we'll see a perfect roadmap to solve any kind of problem

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