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hsbc-accuses-competitors-of-competing

From ZDNet UK:

Speaking at the Gartner IT Security Summit 2006, Brendan Pickering, group head of fraud technology at HSBC, accused rival banks of getting into an "arms race" approach to authentication.
What is next? Lowering interest rates to gain market share? Having people in a branch? Advertising? Where will it stop?

authentication-requirements-for-cyber-insurance

I was looking at AIG's IT Self Assesment (Doc file) and I have a question:

how-to-thwart-laptop-facial-recognition-systems

With a picture.

interesting-analysis-of-passmarks-technology

Adam has pointed out a friend's new blog who has a set of interesting new blog posts, most about security and some about authentication and one in particular about Passmark's Sitekey - now deployed by Bank of America - and the issues he has with it. They fall into two categories: user interaction predictions and security

how-to-secure-vnc-remote-access-with-two-factor

I've written another how-to for Howtoforge. This article describes how to combine WiKID and NoMachine's NX products to secure VNC. It should be noted that NoMachine offers a lot more functionality and speed than just tunneling VNC through SSH. It is incredibly fast and allows for remote X and RPD in addition to VNC. They have a version that is free for two concurrent connections.

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