by Avivah Litan | March 30, 2012 | 140 Comments
Just when we thought the big credit card data breaches were over, at least for a while (with Alberto Gonzalez put away after his scams at TJX, Heartland Payments and others) – along comes a new one reported today in www.Krebsonsecurity.com. See KrebsOnSecurity.com Visa and MasterCard have already issued warnings on this. I’ve spoken with [...]
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by Avivah Litan | March 27, 2012 | 2 Comments
I just read with interest Bob Sullivan’s latest blog http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/26/10875023-exclusive-hackers-turn-credit-report-websites-against-consumers. If you ask me it’s time to seriously rethink knowledge based authentication based on data held by the credit bureaus and other public data aggregators. (It’s also time to rethink KBA just based on the relatively high failure rates – as much as 10% after [...]
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by Avivah Litan | March 26, 2012 | 1 Comment
Apple’s rejection of applications that access the iPhone or iPad unique identification number, UDID, will only drive adoption of alternative measures. There are plenty around – not that they are as strong and absolute as the UDID, but they are, in many circumstances, ‘almost as good.’ These identifiers include other hardware IDs like the MAC [...]
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by Avivah Litan | March 9, 2012 | 2 Comments
This may be old news to many of you but I just learned that Stuxnet is still very much alive and well, and spreading around. As you know, it was used to interfere and potentially damage closed systems in Iran’s nuclear facilities. Apparently, it can be leveraged to damage lots of other closed systems, like [...]
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by Avivah Litan | March 8, 2012 | Comments Off
I was excited to go to the National Press Club Awards Dinner last night and found the evening very inspiring, thought provoking and educational. A few highlights: a) a 24 year old reporter at a small town newspaper, the Patriot Ledger, (the editor made jokes saying the national media considered them microscopic with just 19 [...]
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by Avivah Litan | March 3, 2012 | 4 Comments
On February 23rd, the Associated Press reported that months after the Summer 2011 launch of a $77 million computer system to detect Medicare fraud, only one suspicious payment worth $7591 had been stopped by Christmas. See: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501363_162-57383858/apnewsbreak-anti-fraud-effort-disappoints/ After hearing about all the studies that have found hundreds of millions and even billions of fraud and [...]
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