Small business or large, studies show that all companies are at risk of attack by hackers. Government agencies including the FBI have suggested using a separate computer for all transactions involving money or sensitive information, but from a business view, that isn’t scalable or practical. So we’re gonna spill the beans for you. We’re not [...]

The good folks over at Credit Card Processing Gist posted an article yesterday naming the flaws of Verififed By Visa and MasterCard’s Secure Code. Flawed technology and poor design meet good economics – telling us that price is the trump card when it comes to online authentication.
When we talk about the authentication space there are [...]

A few days ago Google decided to shut down its operations in China after a spear phishing attack directed towards Chinese human rights activists, as well as attempts to steal some of Google’s intellectual property.   It is presumed that the attackers sent exploit-ridden PDF attachments in emails to Google employees, thus attempting to gain access [...]

Do you hear that? The sound of drip… drip… drip…? It’s the sound of money ever so gradually leaving your account through insecure transactions.
There are these clever little ways to send money through text messaging – Yele does it to help humanitarian aid after the quake in Haiti. Just text “Yele” to a specific number [...]

The quip at the bottom of this password worksheet is priceless. Why try to remember what you could just write down?
The sad thing is that there are actually products like this still out there, encouraging people to write down and maintain a paper trail of their various passwords – especially for ‘important’ information. Those most [...]

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, [...]

We all think we’re pretty observant people. We notice things that are important to us – a friend’s new shoes, the boss’ new briefcase. If we sit down with one of those “Spot the difference” puzzles we can find 5 things.
In our own minds, we can all spot a criminal, a bad website, or a [...]

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 [...]

Don’t you know that December is a great time to blog? There are end of year reviews, predictions for the next year, holiday hubub – this stuff nearly writes itself. Speaking of which, Earl Perkins at Gartner put up an interesting question the other week that prompted some soul-searching. He wants to know what identity [...]

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 [...]