Information Security

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RSS Steve Brunswick - Thales - Long Crendon  09/09/2010 | 660 views
Canada shows how EMV migration can impact fraud

The voices calling for the U.S. to migrate to EMV have been growing louder over the past few months with Walmart, T-Mobile and even the Federal Reserve calling for or discussing the move. Meanwhile, just across the border, the United States’ close northern cousins in Canada have already taken...
Tags: Cards, Payments
RSS Anthony Cossey - Interactive Data 7-Ticks - London  05/08/2010 | 1450 views
Osama Rim Laden?

The UAE and Saudi Arabia have banned certain communications services available via Blackberry devices in their countries, simply because the data leaving the device is encrypted and this makes the data difficult to perform snooping on.This to me defies logic, if were using any Internet connected dev...
Tags: Security
RSS Robin Adams - The Logic Group - Fleet  05/08/2010 | 1445 views
Be Ready to Pursue - Before an Attack Occurs

100% security doesn’t exist. The frustrating truth is that almost every organisation will suffer a security breach at some point. Whether it is the defacing of a website, loss of data through a Trojan horse or the corruption of a system by a virus or worm, most companies will experience som...
Tags: Security, Retail banking
RSS Ben Smyth - University of Birmingham - UK  04/08/2010 | 1897 views | 5 comments
How password recovery threatens online banking security

The online banking systems offered by the Lloyds Banking Group (including Bank of Scotland & Halifax) and the Royal Bank of Scotland Group (including Natwest, Royal Bank of Scotland & Ulster bank) are vulnerable to an attack which allows an adversary to commit financial fraud. More precisely...
Tags: Security, Online banking
RSS Robin Adams - The Logic Group - Fleet  22/07/2010 | 1826 views | 1 comment
Comprehensive Protection Against Fraud

In the past decade there has been a sharp increase in focus on the security of cardholder data held by third parties. High profile data breaches and the associated losses resulting from the fraudulent use of compromised cardholder data have made global headlines and have struck fear into consumers...
Tags: Security, Payments
More blog posts

05/07/2010  Consumer trust in contactless security a must for take-off
Steve Brunswick - Thales - Long Crendon | 808 views | 1 comment
Tags: Cards, Payments
28/06/2010  A Multifaceted Approach to Fraud Prevention
Robin Adams - The Logic Group - Fleet | 1924 views
Tags: Security, Payments
18/06/2010  Australia's EMV roll out bites into card fraud
Steve Brunswick - Thales - Long Crendon | 1693 views
Tags: Security, Payments
01/06/2010  Barclays compromise financial privacy
Ben Smyth - University of Birmingham - UK | 1686 views
Tags: Security, Online banking
16/04/2010  A bridge to mobile payments
Steve Brunswick - Thales - Long Crendon | 2931 views | 1 comment
Tags: Cards, Payments
01/04/2010  Transiting to open-loop contactless payments
Steve Brunswick - Thales - Long Crendon | 2631 views
Tags: Cards, Payments
01/03/2010  Banks accept Dubai assassins' stolen IDs
Elton Cane - Independent - Brisbane | 1928 views | 1 comment
Tags: Security, Online banking
26/02/2010  Reliability of Chip and PIN evidence in banking disputes
Steven Murdoch - University of Cambridge - Cambridge | 1957 views
Tags: Security, Risk
15/02/2010  Chip and PIN - not perfect, but the best we have
Steve Brunswick - Thales - Long Crendon | 2789 views | 16 comments
Tags: Security, Payments
12/02/2010  Chip and PIN is broken
Steven Murdoch - University of Cambridge - Cambridge | 4619 views | 13 comments
Tags: Cards, Security
07/02/2010  False Accusation leads PAYPAL to disclose Accounts of others
Marite Ferrero - Monetic Expert CardSwitch Technology - London | 1853 views | 3 comments
Tags: Security, Payments
27/01/2010  Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode
Steven Murdoch - University of Cambridge - Cambridge | 3882 views | 3 comments
Tags: Security, Payments
19/01/2010  Encoding integers in the EMV protocol
Steven Murdoch - University of Cambridge - Cambridge | 1756 views | 2 comments
Tags: Cards, Security
16/12/2009  Cheques are on the way out - so what's the alternative?
Steve Brunswick - Thales - Long Crendon | 2852 views | 5 comments
Tags: Payments
03/12/2009  Shaking up digital security
Matt White - Finextra - London | 2911 views | 2 comments
Tags: Security, Retail banking
26/11/2009  IDs FOR SALE! IDs FOR SALE! Who wants to Buy One?
Steve Liles - Sheffield Computer Systems PL - Sydney | 2089 views | 1 comment
Tags: Security, Risk
13/11/2009  How to cut US Merchants' card fraud costs by 50 billion
Steve Brunswick - Thales - Long Crendon | 1737 views | 2 comments
Tags: Cards, Payments
11/11/2009  Finextra video interview on CAP vulnerabilities
Steven Murdoch - University of Cambridge - Cambridge | 1615 views
Tags: Security, Online banking
26/10/2009  Demonstration of CAP vulnerability on BBC One today
Steven Murdoch - University of Cambridge - Cambridge | 2354 views | 4 comments
Tags: Security, Online banking
27/08/2009  People are the biggest vulnerability
Mary Freeman - Simplify IT Limited - London | 1512 views
Tags: Security, Risk

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