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Viewing posts from January, 2009

dutch-biometric-passports-broken

Face and fingerprints swiped in Dutch biometric passport crack.

eat-the-rich

I found this interesting from a risk-management perspective for financial service firms: Atlanta-based WiFi security provider AirDefense says they are seeing "Evil Twin" attacks in locations that cater to high-networth individuals, such as: "first class lounge of an international airport, and in garages that specialize in expensive cars that offered Wi-Fi while you wait. Train station lounges had also been targeted."

estonian-phisher-nabbed

"Pau said the suspect stole the money by infecting thousands of computers with a clever - and for a long time undetectable - trojan that transmitted their personal information, including internet banking account numbers and passwords, to him."

etrade-to-deploy-rsa-tokens-but-does-it-stop

ETrade announced that they would be offering RSA SecurID key fob tokens to account holders with more than $50,000 in assets.

fdic-starts-push-for-two-factor-authentication

The FDIC held a symposium in LA where they released a supplement to their study "Putting an End to Account-Hijacking Theft." According the ABA eAlert, there is a strong push for two-factor authentication:

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