by Schehrezade Davidson | Mar 1, 2010 | Banking, Cyberthieves, Phishing
First Direct bank in the UK has been the first British bank to embrace Twitter. Does that really surprise anyone? As a 100% online bank, they’ve maintained a business pace a few clicks ahead of competitors in online services. But last weekend their clients and...
by Schehrezade Davidson | Jan 8, 2010 | Trends
Is anyone really surprised that two of the top security threats expected in 2010 have to do with social engineering and mobile media? Hackers live in the same world we do, and they naturally gravitate toward any media that is widely used. As social networking becomes...
by Schehrezade Davidson | Jan 1, 2010 | Banking, Retail, Trends
The FBI is advising small businesses – the same ones often operating on a shoestring – to use a dedicated PC for their online banking. It would seem that hackers are targeting small businesses, universities, and local businesses with keylogging malware...
by Schehrezade Davidson | Dec 23, 2009 | Retail
We’re thinking Blippy may be just a proverbial blip on the radar. The passive social networking site (meaning, it updates your status for you) tells your friends how much you’re spending, and where. It updates a twitter-like status about your credit card...
by Schehrezade Davidson | Dec 21, 2009 | Trends
Did you see this? Christian Harris put up a nice blog last week calling alphanumeric logins obsolete. Thanks for the shout-out Christian. The same article tells us that identity theft is up 33.1%, according to CIFAS, and that’s before taking into account the...
