Source: GOV.UK, 23rd April 2013 The Information Security Breaches Survey, commissioned by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), said firms were now “struggling to keep up” with security threats. “In total, the cost to UK plc of security breaches is of the order of billions of pounds per annum – it’s roughly tripled…
Source: #TheFraudTube, 13th March 2013, New York Times, 12th March 2013 Yesterday James R. Clapper Jr., the US Director of National Intelligence, told a Senate panel that the threat of cyberattacks was now more pressing than the risk of an attack by global terrorist networks. According to an article in the New York Times, it…
Source: Fraud Consulting & CSCSS 13th March 2013 It was announced today that Darren Hodder, Director at Fraud Consulting Ltd has accepted the role of Vice President, Cyber Fraud Intelligence at the Centre for Strategic Cyberspace + Security Science (CSCSS), headquartered in London, UK. Be Sociable, Share! Tweet
Source: SNL, Fraud Consulting Ltd, 12th February 2013 The following article is reproduced with the kind permission of SNL Kagan Security concerns and password issues will increasingly become a problem in 2013, while 4K TVs and LTE adoption will gain momentum, industry experts have told SNL Kagan. “The need for Internet security and anti-virus software…
Source: iovation, 10th September 2012 According to iovation, Linux devices have the highest percentage of fraudulent transactions originating from them. The company came to its findings by analyzing fraudulent transactions as a percentage of overall transactions from each mobile and fixed Internet device it tracked from January to July 2012. Be Sociable, Share! Tweet
In light of the Yahoo Voices hack where 450,000 passwords have been compromised, it’s time again to let the world know what they are doing wrong when it comes to passwords. CNET pointed out that: 2,295: The number of times a sequential list of numbers was used, with “123456″ by far being the most popular password. There…
