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07/07/2009
Mobilegov is now OATH contributing-member
Mobilegov takes part in OATH, a collaborative effort of IT industry leaders aimed at providing a reference architecture for universal strong authentication across all users and all devices over all networks.
05/05/2009
The Downside of Friends: Facebook's Hacking Problem
You get a quick message from a friend on Facebook, click on the link and absentmindedly log in to a website pretending to be Facebook. This is what happened last week, when scammers unleashed a new attack on Facebook, collecting users' log-in information and passwords and pilfering victims' "friends" lists to target the next dopes. Listen up, people: Although Facebook has a reputation for Internet security — it identified the scam within hours, and the ripple effects only lasted for a couple days — at 200 million members and counting, the size and popularity of the social-networking site has made it the object of increasing attention from hackers and spammers. And if last week is any indication, it's only going to get worse.
26/04/2009
Facebook announces users will soon be able to login to Facebook via OpenID
Less than three months after joining the OpenID Foundation’s board as a sustaining corporate member (i.e. putting its weight and financial support behind OpenID), Facebook has just announced at the “technology tasting” event this afternoon at its Palo Alto headquarters that users will soon be able to log in to Facebook with their OpenID.
01/04/2009
Biometric hack tool released
A British security researcher has demonstrated a "biologging" system for intercepting biometric authentication data, warning that attacks on biometric systems could become relatively straightforward if current practices don't change Matthew Lewis, of London-based Information Risk Management, demonstrated a proof-of-concept biologger last we at Black Hat Amsterdam and released the tool's source code.
11/12/2008
Jobless techies turning to crime
Impoverished techies and IT workers who have been made redundant will go rogue in 2009, selling corporate data and using crimeware, reports predict.
08/12/2008
License plates may be coming to cyberspace
A government and technology industry panel on cyber-security is recommending that the federal government end its reliance on passwords and enforce what the industry describes as “strong authentication.”Such an approach would probably mean that all government computer users would have to hold a device to gain access to a network computer or online service. The commission is also encouraging all nongovernmental commercial services use such a device.
20/11/2008
Data lost by Revenue and Customs
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has lost computer disks containing confidential details of 25 million child benefit recipients.The organisation says it does not believe the records - names, addresses, dates of birth and bank accounts - have fallen into the wrong hands. This is not the first time it has lost sensitive information.
19/11/2008
US Department of defense bans USB drives after worm attack
Malware outbreak triggers removable lockdown for US military
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