The WiKID Blog, musings on two-factor authentication, information security and some other stuff.
two-factor-for-the-cloud
Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago
I'm back from my many summer travels and hope to have some time to do some posting. However, some new customers are keeping us a bit busy, so don't get your hopes up. Not that you would.
reason-for-drop-in-cost-of-e-crime-now-clear
Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago
I have always been puzzled as to why the total cost of e-crime dropped in the most recent CSI/FBI crime survey. Now the reason is clear: online crime is no longer predominately the purvue of lonely teens seeking self-esteem, it is increasingly being propogated by organized crime gangs selling access to 'owned' machines. Since they only need 5,000-10,000 machines per sale, that is all they get. If they got more than that it increases the possibility of exposure, reducing the value of those machines.two-factor-how-to-round-up
Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago
Nice hyphenation. :).
schneier-questions-need-for-himself
Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago
I read with delight this quote from omnipresent security pundit Bruce Schneier questioning the reasons for the existance of the security industry:
"We shouldn't have to come and find a company to secure our e-mail. E-mail should already be secure. We shouldn't have to buy from somebody to secure our network or servers. Our networks and servers should already be secure."
problems-with-the-pci-security-standard
Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago
Mark Curphey has some thoughts about the problems with the PCI security standard and it looks like he is just getting started. I would like to also point out a comment left by an anonymous poster (probably because he or she makes a living doing PCI audits) in a previous post on PCI:
The problem with the Visa PCI standard is that Visa/MC have a vested interested in keeping the business flowing. The entity that is responsible for answering Visa is the issuing bank. The retailer is responisible to the issuing bank. The reports are filed with the issuing banks and shared with Visa. The problem with this structure is that all parties have a financial interest in keeping the business flowing. It takes a serious public violation, like card systems, for Visa/Issuing Banks to drop a vendor.
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