Posted on 07 September 2011 by
My final installment in this series features the security of a player’s online persona or assets. If you’ve ever played a game that involves accomplishments or accumulating items, you know how much you care about this layer of security. No one wants to wake up one morning, log in to World of Warcraft and find […]
Posted on 15 September 2011 by
Bruce Schneier’s recent post in which he said that secret questions had reached a ‘new low’ may have shocked some casual observers, but for me it simply underlines a problem which is all too common. Personal verification questions (PVQs) and answers have been the de facto solution for forgotten passwords since the creation of email […]
Posted on 16 September 2011 by
In 1991, Phil Collins told us: ‘The only thing about me is the way I walk’. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOyF4hR5GoE It seems he was one step ahead of the game. It’s taken 20 years for the security industry to catch up with Phil and his Genesis bandmates, but an article published this week by the New Scientist claims […]
Posted on 20 September 2011 by
Recently, @briankrebs highlighted a Trojan attack which showed quite how sophisticated some cyber attacks are now becoming. The case in question is being investigated by German police, and involves a new piece of malware which convinces online banking customers to willingly transfer their own money into the accounts of criminals. This particular case shows that, sometimes, even a layered […]
Posted on 21 September 2011 by
We’re shortly going to be researching CIOs globally on their views on security and authentication. What their concerns and pressure points are, what the barriers to implementing stronger security seem to be and where responsibility for security sits within an organization. However, we’d like YOU to pose the questions.
What would you ask?
Posted on 22 September 2011 by
As a follow-on to my previous post on how identity can be verified according to your footsteps, I just wanted to highlight how this could be put to effect in catching assassins and other criminals. One of the biggest TV highlights of the year, spy series Spooks (broadcast under the name MI5 for our American […]
