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What Banks
Tell Online Customers About Their Security
CIO May 30, 2007
By the end of 2006, U.S. banks were
supposed to have implemented "strong
authentication" for online banking—in other
words, they needed to put something besides
a user name and password in between any old
Internet user and all the money in a
customer's banking account.
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Take My
Passwords, Please
PC Magazine May 30, 2007
I'm dead, dog tired of trying to conceal my
passwords—almost as exhausted as I am by
trying to memorize and recall all of them.
I have dozens of passwords, and, to be quite
honest, they're not even good. Then again,
whose are? They're variations and
repetitions on a theme—essentially, stuff I
can remember. I'm safe for now, but if
someone figured out one part of my useless
encryption system, my password lattice would
crumble faster than a house of cards.
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Olive, come
back, all is forgiven
BQBN News April 4, 2007
Does
anybody remember life before home computers?
Man, I dated myself right there, didn’t I?
Nobody talks about home computers anymore.
We speak of laptops, Imacs, Notebooks, Palm
Pilots and Blackberrys, but not home
computers. That’s like talking about home
refrigerators or home televisions. Nowadays,
pretty much everybody this side of a
monastery or a Mennonite farmhouse has at
least one computer in their life and in
their house. For better or worse.
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More
doctors, insurers asking 'Who are you?'
MSNBC April 4, 2007
Andrew Brooke’s family knew something
was screwy when they got a collection notice
for unpaid bills for treatment of his
work-related back injury, which included
large prescriptions of the controlled
painkiller Oxycontin.
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TJX hack is
biggest ever with 45.7 million card numbers
stolen
Finextra March 29, 2007
Fraudsters who hacked the computer systems
at US retailer TJX managed to steal more
than 45.7 million credit and debit card
numbers over a period of more than 18
months, making it the biggest breach of
personal data ever.
In addition personal data provided in
connection with the return of merchandise
without receipts by about 451,000
individuals in 2003 was also stolen.
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Be careful not to surf into the phisher's
nets
Telegraph.co.uk March 19, 2007
Attacks by criminal gangs on PCs hoping
to steal your security details are rising,
warns Teresa Hunter
Phishing fraud attacks have rocketed
eightfold over the past year, according to
the latest figures from Apacs, the payments
association.
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UK bankers show 44% rise
in online theft
Virus Bulletin March 2007
UK banking payments body APACS has released
its latest figures for credit card and other
types of banking fraud, showing a sizeable
drop in straight card fraud but a similarly
large rise in funds stolen via phished
online banking details. The figures compared
reports for 2006 to those received in 2005.
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Web woes for First Direct users
BBC News, March 13, 2007
First Direct customers have faced days of
struggling to access their online banking,
after the firm overhauled its log-in
procedures. All 700,000 online customers
have been told they must set a new user name
and personal questions as the bank tries to
make its internet service more secure.
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Study: weak passwords really do help hackers
ComputerWorld, Feb 6, 2007
Left online for 24 days to see how hackers
would attack them, four Linux computers with
weak passwords were hit by some 270,000
intrusion attempts -- about one attempt
every 39 seconds, according to a study
conducted by a researcher at the University
of Maryland.
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Criminals 'may overwhelm
the web'
BBC News January 25, 2007
Criminals controlling millions of personal
computers are threatening the internet's
future, experts have warned. Up to a quarter
of computers on the net may be used by cyber
criminals in so-called botnets, said Vint
Cerf, one of the fathers of the internet.
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2007 Security Threats on the Rise
E-Commerce News January 10, 2007
With the new calendars freshly hung on the
wall, an important question surfaces: What
security threats are on the rise for 2007?
It appears that the year will bring more
narrowly defined threats or "targeted
threats," which are different from what
we've seen before. They are more focused on
individual information as opposed to
mass-mailing worms that are sent over the
Internet to randomly infect victims.
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Top 10 Security Threats for 2007
The Brampton News December 22, 2007
McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE) today announced its
top ten predictions for security threats in
2007 from McAfee Avert Labs. According to
McAfee Avert Labs data, with more than
217,000 various types of known threats and
thousands more as yet unidentified, it is
clear that malware is increasingly being
released by professional and organized
criminals.
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