Some basic advice has been issued by Apacs, and includes:
* Don’t let your cards or your card details out of your sight when making a transaction
* Do not keep your passwords, login details or Pins written down
* Do not disclose Pins, login details or passwords in response to unsolicited emails
* Only divulge card details over [...]
In movies the hacker tries to hack into a Department of Defense computer by speed-typing passwords. We all know reality is nothing like this and we see it as the joke that it is.
But business management don’t see the inherent risks as affecting business bottom line but a hindrance to another new project; they don’t [...]
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Considered to be the most intricately designed piece of malware ever, Stuxnet leverages attack vectors onto industrial control systems, a territory rarely ventured into by traditional malware. Stuxnet targets industries, power plants and other facilities that use automation and control equipment from the leading German industrial vendor, Siemens. The term, critical [...]
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Essentials of Online payment Security and Fraud Prevention
As we all know that credit card frauds are on the rise and crooks are utilizing more advanced techniques to acquire credit card information. In these circumstances anyone can lose their private and credit card information to crooks. Individual due diligence is necessary [...]
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Stuxnet, the most sophisticated malware ever designed, could make factory boilers explode, destroy gas pipelines, or even cause a nuclear plant to malfunction; experts suspect it was designed by Israeli intelligence programmers to disrupt the operations of Iran’s nuclear facilities — especially that country’s centrifuge farms and the nuclear reactor in [...]
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Above the Clouds: Managing Risk in the World of Cloud Computing
By Dick Weisinger
Security usually tops the lists of concerns that people have about the cloud. And now it seems like there is good reason. On a recent survey of 100 “elite” hackers at the 2010 Defcon conferenece, 96 of them [...]
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“This summer the Norwegian National Security Authority (NSM) discovered for the first time targeted computer attacks directed against internal process and control systems to ensure supply of electricity and water. Similar attacks were discovered in Germany and Belarus. EU’s cyber-security unit, ENISA, will in late October or early November carry out the first [...]
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Stopping Identity Theft: 10 Easy Steps to Security
by Reader’s Digest Magazine, on Thu Aug 12, 2010 Interviews by Michelle Crouch
Former identity thieves confess the tactics they use to scam you.
1. Watch your back. In line at the grocery store, I’ll hold my phone
like I’m looking at the screen and snap your [...]
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100% Internet Credit Card Fraud Protected
by Robert McMillan
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has disrupted a long-running online scam that allowed offshore fraudsters to steal millions of dollars from U.S. consumers — often by taking just pennies at a time.
The scam, which had been run for about four years, according to the FTC, provides [...]
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By Tom Murphy
INDIANAPOLIS – WellPoint Inc. has notified 470,000 individual insurance customers that medical records, credit card numbers and other sensitive information may have been exposed in the latest security breach of the health insurer’s records.
The Indianapolis company said the problem stemmed from an online program customers can use to track the progress [...]
