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IT’s Worst Nightmare: The Disciplined And Patient Thief
Posted on November 6th, 2010 No commentsLast week, one of the industry’s best security analysts (Avivah Litan, from Gartner) wrote a blog post about the latest round of skimming attacks and she made two intriguing points: that POS card reader tamper attacks skirt PCI protections and that most bank fraud detectors fail because the amounts are too small. These attacks actually are even more clever than that. Through a disciplined, non-greedy approach, many of these attacks make it not worthwhile for either the consumer or the bank to pursue
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City Admits Lapse in Data Release
Posted on October 8th, 2009 No commentsNEW YORK, NY — …in what appears to have been an accidental data breach, the city provided, as part of one data set, private information from representatives of women’s groups. A data file containing information on 1,100 such groups that had registered with the city’s Commission on Women’s Issues included fields for each participant’s “secret question” and…
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Visa Releases Encryption Guidelines for Merchants
Posted on October 8th, 2009 No comments“Given the interest expressed by merchants and processors, guidance from the card brands is a critical determinant in figuring out how to move ahead with encrypting data in transit, especially absent a global standard,” said Avivah Litan, an analyst at Gartner, in a statement. “Companies should also be aware that if data is decrypted anywhere in their system, they are still at risk for a data breach.”
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