FSA: city firms must record mobile chatter November 2011 | Derek Parkinson | Leave a comment City investment firms are under renewed scrutiny after regulations requiring them to record mobile phone conversations came into force this week, catching some off guard as they rushed to implement the technology before the deadline. The regulations, drawn up by … Continue reading → Tweet
UK tops global league for phishing emails October 2011 | Derek Parkinson | Leave a comment The UK is awash with phishing emails, in October becoming the most heavily targeted country in the world with one in every 178 emails a phishing attempt, according to the latest Symantec Intelligence Report. This represents a concentration of phishing … Continue reading → Tweet
Identity Fraud Prevention Week – social networks and phishing October 2011 | Derek Parkinson | Comment (1) National Identity Fraud Prevention Week launches today, raising awareness of the threat of identity fraud at home, and at work. Although 95% of UK citizens now understand the risks, many are still careless both on and offline, according to the … Continue reading → Tweet
Cyber crime costs UK more than £1bn, says Symantec September 2011 | Derek Parkinson | Leave a comment Cyber crime in all its forms costs the UK a total of £1.1bn per year, according to Symantec. The direct cost of money stolen coupled with an average of four days needed to resolve each incident contributes £474m to this … Continue reading → Tweet
Police swoop on Olympic ticket suspect June 2011 | Derek Parkinson | Leave a comment Following a tip-off from organisers of the 2012 Olympics, the Metropolitan Police have arrested a man suspected of using Twitter to target people who missed out on the rush to buy tickets, and luring them to a website that made … Continue reading → Tweet
UK banks – hoping two-factor security will cut fraud? February 2011 | Redaction | Leave a comment UK banks are considering radical ways of cutting the rising levels of online banking fraud suffered by their corporate and retail customers. These include deploying USB tokens loaded with a hardened web browser that takes the customer directly to the … Continue reading → Tweet
Social Networks Under Attack Part 1/3: The Attack Vectors May 2009 | Redaction | Comments (3) Many corporates have tapped into the business benefits of the social network explosion. However due to the explosive growth of these networks, they have become a major target for cyber-criminals. Social networks under attack parts 1-3 examines the attacks and … Continue reading → Tweet
Social Networks Under Attack Part 3/3: Technological Defences May 2009 | Redaction | Leave a comment In part 1, we examined how social networks are under attack and in part 2 we had a look at how organisations can defend themselves by giving adequate user induction and on-going training. In this final section, we examine the … Continue reading → Tweet
Social Networks Under Attack Part 2/3: User Defences May 2009 | Redaction | Leave a comment In part 1, of this article we examined several attack vectors currently being used to compromise corporate systems via social networks. We have been using Facebook as our example due to its current mass popularity, however no social network is … Continue reading → Tweet
