by Tricerion | Feb 28, 2014 | Cyberthieves, Passwords, Phishing, Retail, Trends, Usability, Vulnerabilities
Authentication is more like sushi than vintage art. It’s best when it’s fresh, and aging it only decreases the value. Vintage art appreciates in value over time, but security credentials are perishable products. You may be attached to your...
by Tricerion | Feb 12, 2014 | Phishing, Trends
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by Tricerion | Jan 20, 2014 | Passwords, Retail, Vulnerabilities
How creative are you when it comes to ordering a drink at Starbucks? Apparently, you are just as likely to keep ordering the same beverage as you are to use the same password for multiple websites. In an article in Computerworld Evan Schuman notes the security...
by Tricerion | Dec 30, 2013 | Banking, Cyberthieves, Passwords, Phishing, Usability, Vulnerabilities
The irony of traditional login mechanisms is that they keep building perceived layers of security by making text-based passwords longer and adding security words to supplement the master password, asking for secrets that only you may know, while these secrets are...
by Tricerion | Dec 10, 2013 | Banking, Cyberthieves, Mobile, Passwords, Phishing, Retail, Trends, Usability, Vulnerabilities
Phishing is a confidence problem. Last year the Royal Bank of Scotland paid out $285.7 million to their customers who experienced a service outage due to distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. In early December the bank was hit again with a similar attack. ...
