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The WiKID Blog, musings on two-factor authentication, information security and some other stuff.

1m-was-siphoned-out-of-customers-accounts-via

According to the BBC, 8 people have been arrested for stealing £1m though the Chip and PIN system at Shell.

"These Pin pads are supposed to be tamper resistant, they are supposed to shut down, so that has obviously failed," said Apacs spokeswoman Sandra Quinn.

microsoft-rolls-out-onecare-with-free-trial

Hat tip to the WSJ today. MS is rolling out their OneCare consumer PC protection:

class-action-to-drive-action-on-security-at-banks

Any class action with 40 million defendants is going to get huge fast. Here is an article at Bank Systems and Technology. Some interesting tidbits:

liability-for-account-fraud

Good stuff from Ian Grigg about phishing and liabilities.

follow-up-on-t-mobile-security

So this weekend, the blog started getting a ton of hits from google searches for "Paris Hitlon T-moble hacked SideKick" etc. I couldn't figure out why the big rush all the sudden until I read the Register this a.m..

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