First Direct bank in the UK has been the first British bank to embrace Twitter. Does that really surprise anyone? As a 100% online bank, they’ve maintained a business pace a few clicks ahead of competitors in online services.
But last weekend their clients and colleagues got a little surprise. First Direct’s Twitter account was duped, [...]
Is anyone really surprised that two of the top security threats expected in 2010 have to do with social engineering and mobile media? Hackers live in the same world we do, and they naturally gravitate toward any media that is widely used. As social networking becomes more widely accepted – especially by businesses and civic [...]
Read the rest of this entry »The FBI is advising small businesses – the same ones often operating on a shoestring – to use a dedicated PC for their online banking. It would seem that hackers are targeting small businesses, universities, and local businesses with keylogging malware – that is, software that records the keystrokes typically used to enter a password, [...]
Read the rest of this entry »We’re thinking Blippy may be just a proverbial blip on the radar. The passive social networking site (meaning, it updates your status for you) tells your friends how much you’re spending, and where. It updates a twitter-like status about your credit card purchases.
The good:
if you’re trying to save dough, this could be a positive means [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Did you see this? Christian Harris put up a nice blog last week calling alphanumeric logins obsolete. Thanks for the shout-out Christian.
The same article tells us that identity theft is up 33.1%, according to CIFAS, and that’s before taking into account the increase in fraud that we expect over the holidays. It seems that come [...]
CA, Inc. issued a report last week detailing the top security threats of 2009, as well as predictions for 2010. What’s surprising?
Fake or rogue security software was the most prevalent threat of 2008. It seems criminals know that we as a population have a weakness for security products. We want to be safe, so they [...]
The problem: banking websites, while highly useful and in fact necessary in today’s virtual economy, are also highly vulnerable to fraudulent attacks.
They could approach it the way AT&T did when they realized that 3% of users (iPhone owners) exploit 40% of bandwith – AT&T started looking for ways to discourage iPhone users from accessing the [...]
