by Tricerion | May 28, 2014 | Banking, Cyberthieves, Passwords, Trends, Vulnerabilities
If cyber crime in 1990s was the Wild West and you had to ride the mail coach to be noticed and targeted by for criminals, modern cyber attacks look more like nuclear bomb blasts. Criminals go for massive data breaches because a phishing attack is a numbers game. The...
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 | 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. ...
by Tricerion | Oct 31, 2013 | Cyberthieves, Passwords, Phishing, Retail, Trends, Usability, Vulnerabilities
We are used to going through airport security checkpoints and having to present a photo ID. The bank gives us cash if we can prove that we are who we say we are. But there is no need to show your passport to get through the front door of your own house. Your loving...
by Schehrezade Davidson | Aug 29, 2013 | Cyberthieves, Passwords, Usability, Vulnerabilities
The simplest way to rob a bank is to walk through the front door (not that we’ve ever tried). The easiest way to hack a website/domain/account – is to use a username and password. This is what actually happened during the recent New York Times and Twitter domain...
