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- FDIC to banks: Watch out for spyware
- FDIC to banks: Watch out for spywareThe best defense against spyware is avoiding WindowsI'm always being asked by people how to remain safe online. My advice is simple: Never type anything into a Windows computer that you wouldn't post on a bulletin board on a public street. ...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Financial services, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, bank, spyware, FDIC
- Discussion threads 2005-07-25
- E-mail scam taps antiterrorist push, says FDIC
- E-mail scam taps antiterrorist push, says FDICI'm not surprised.....I've recieved e-mails like that from PayPal, Ebay and many, many other places [including banks & other institutions I've never heard of]What gets me is that people fall for it.If I get something like that, first thing: Is it from...
- Tags: APNIC, e-mail, Microsoft Corp., Whois, FDIC
- Discussion threads 2004-01-23
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- Researcher claims thousands of identities stolen during Social Engineering pentests
- Kelly Jackson Higgins of Dark Reading, reported on research conducted by Joshua Perrymon, hacking director for PacketFocus Security Solutions and CEO of RedFlag Security, who has been performing social engineering exploits for numerous clients in the past year and has apparently stolen thousands of identities with a 100 percent success rate. ...
- Tags: Social Engineering, Identity, Dark Reading Article, Identity Theft, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- ICANN and IANA's domains hijacked by Turkish hacking group
- ICANN and IANA's domains hijacked by Turkish hacking groupWindows is to blameI hear that the Internet is basically run on Windows servers so it is hardly surprising that this happened. If ICANN would only switch to OS X I'm sure that no hacker would ever be able to break in.As...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, SECURITY, Domain names, ICANN, IANA, hacking group, Turkish, hacker, hacking, IP, domain
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- Virtualise your life - mixing mobility and cloudivity
- Virtualise your life - mixing mobility and cloudivityGreat idea, but concerns still lingerThe dream is certainly a nice one. The dream has been presented in different forms for at least the last 20 or so years. Each time a slightly different technology was at the heart of the dream. Each...
- Tags: cloud computing, cloudivity, Ulteo, mobility
- Discussion threads 2008-06-13
- Think your PC is insecure? Your bank is worse
- Think your PC is insecure? Your bank is worseMany timesCancel that cardcredit card theft the bank's fault?Why do you assume that your card number was exposed because your financial institution was compromised? The banking industry is regulated and is audited on a regular basis by the government. Credit...
- Tags: Financial services, bank, card number, credit card
- Discussion threads 2008-03-12
- Wachovia: $211 trillion "word-processing error"
- Wachovia: $211 trillion "word-processing error"Not necessarily manually typedIt was probably a mail merge and the fields got screwed up (the number was actually his account number, so it wasn't a random made up number or a data puncher leaning on his keypad). That could have happened at either the back...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, word-processing, Wachovia Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-12-02
- INTERVIEW: Paul Dandurand (CEO, PIEmatrix) on Project Failure and IT Governance
- At the recent Enterprise 2.0 Conference, I was quietly eating essential nutrients cookies and coffee, when Paul Dandurand, founder and CEO of PIEmatrix, introduced himself. Paul’s company is developing a process management and governance solution for IT projects, and he’s no stranger to this field. Before starting PIEmatrix, Paul co-founded...
- Tags: Risk, Project strategy, Interview, Enterprise2conf
- Blog posts 2007-06-25
- Google Office wins? Declares enterprise hierarchies 'dead'
- Google Office wins? Declares enterprise hierarchies 'dead'Death to Microsoft Heirarchy!To replace it with Google Heirarchy!They, too, have email operations, backups, servers, OSes, tapes and what not.They just want to do it all for you.BTW bank deposits are guaranteed by the FDIC. Are my emails gauranteed by someone? They...
- Tags: E-mail, Google Inc., enterprise hierarchy, Google Office
- Discussion threads 2007-06-04
- Feinstein asks for probe in FL election
- Feinstein asks for probe in FL electionVote Tampering is Punishable, TooI think the jerk, probably Jeb Bush, who rigged the vote in Florida, should be hung. He really screwed the country over by putting his brother where he is now. There's not just one person to blame. ...
- Tags: Data mining, Professional development, Business intelligence, Jeb Bush, American People
- Discussion threads 2007-02-19
- Google wants data in the cloud, not on the desktop
- Google wants data in the cloud, not on the desktopYes, just like we trust banks to keep our money, we will trust serviceproviders to keep our data. We need something like the FDIC, and serious penalties for losing data, but this will work itself out. Of course there will always...
- Tags: desktop, Google Inc., Google Wants, hard drive
- Discussion threads 2006-11-07
- Auditing auditors
- The frequent loss of laptops and data disks by outside auditors in recent months has caused me to think about best practices for controlling auditors. The latest case involved the laptop of the auditor for Wellsfargo Bank. The laptop was stolen from the trunk of the...
- Tags: Notebooks, auditing, laptop computer
- Blog posts 2006-09-08
- Legislating Identity
- "Drivers" are a funny thing. They're those often-ambiguous factors cited by analysts and reporters as they attempt to explain why a technology is catching on. Of course, there are usually deeper underlying factors "driving" a technology adoption, than the official technology "drivers." But, even as we explore those underlying factors,...
- Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Authentication/Encryption, Regulations, SECURITY, identity, authentication
- Blog posts 2006-04-18
- Ending Microsoft's identity crisis
- Ending Microsoft's identity crisisMS, GIVE UP ALREADYNobody will trust you with our personal data, especially Credit card and identity data.This will die just like Passport and the .Net logon fiasco.Please, MS, just go the F away.I wonder if Bank of America will supportInfoCard authentication sometime soon?Man, where does MS get...
- Tags: Sales channel, Financial services, Web site development, Microsoft Corp., credit card
- Discussion threads 2006-02-16
- Big surprise: SOA enters the trough of disillusionment
- Gartner has released its 2005 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, one of 68 hype cycles released by the analyst firm this year. Along with the really funky stuff, such as carbon nanotubes, podcasting, and mesh networks, SOA and Web services get a special mention -- a very special mention --...
- Tags: Gartner Inc., SOA, XBRL
- Blog posts 2005-08-30
- The Mortgage Manager (exe)
- Analyze your mortgage to show you how you can save thousands of dollars, and own your home years earlier without refinancing or increasing your mortgage payments. Build equity in your home 300% faster than your current mortgage rate. Track your savings and audit your home mortgage or commercial mortgage loan...
- Tags: Mortgages, Finance, Capital Structures
- Software downloads 2005-07-27
- FTC and BJ Wholesale
- During a couple of weeks of extraordinary announcements of concerted attacks successfully carried out against CardServices, the FDIC, every organization in the UK, and of course the Israel Trojan fiasco it may have been easy to overlook the consent agreement that the FTC has arranged with BJ Wholesale. If...
- Tags: security, BJâ€
- Blog posts 2005-06-22
- Updates
- Israeli Trojan Fiasco: First indictment. CardServices Fiasco. Fraudulent transactions reported in Japan. Phishers get in the act with "MasterCard" subject heading. The Targeted Attacks in the UK are on an industrial scale according to this article.FDIC loses employee data. This is a *successful* attack...
- Tags: Israeli Trojan Fiasco
- Blog posts 2005-06-20
- More arrests promised in bank data theft
- More arrests promised in bank data theftReason I stay away from major banks...and stick with small local banks. It is the smaller banks that seem to be less likely to ship your info overseas for processing and also less likely to be targeted by hackers or data sellers.Because of...
- Tags: Financial services, bank, local bank, income
- Discussion threads 2005-05-23
- New phishing attack uses real ID hooks
- New phishing attack uses real ID hooksThis would require REAL data to succeedThe real question should be who the culprit is inside the bank that released the information to the wild.Thank you LexisNexis, DSW, and others......for making this possible.How much identity theft do we, as consumers, have to suffer before...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, SECURITY, One-Time Password, token, bank, phishing
- Discussion threads 2005-05-16
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