Once again we have been reminded of the vulnerability of financial institutions to credit card fraud. Last week we saw the news that a large gang of thieves (a number of whom have just been arrested in New York) managed to steal an enormous $45 million from thousands of ATMs in just a matter of hours.…
Source: Microsoft, 14th September Viruses and other types of malware are being deployed to PCs and laptops at the production stage. Microsoft has found that the problem stems from insecure supply chains. Malware such as Nitol, which steals personal details to help criminals to gain access online bank accounts, has been found on devices purchased in…
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald, 8th August 2012 Charlie Miller, principal research consultant at US security firm Accuvant recently demonstrated how he could hijack a person’s smartphone by using the device’s embedded near-field communications (NFC) chip. He used an NFC tag to instruct the Google Beam app to open a webpage that contained a specially crafted attack…
