Kumasi, May 19, GNA - Dr. Benjamin Kwesi Prah, Rector of Kumasi Polytechnic, has cautioned Information, Communications and Technology (ICT) students not to use their expertise to engage in cyber crimes. He said cyber crime was a social canker and could scare away investments in an emerging economy like Ghana if drastic measures were not instituted to check it.
Yes, I know. Symantec has Norton 360, Norton AntiVirus 2009 and Norton Internet Security. You are not sure which one is for you. Let’see inside. Introduction I sometimes look back and remember the good old years where we had viruses that formatted our hard disks, do weird things with our computers, freeze our systems … Times have changed and …
As daily reports surface (i.e. see today’s post: “63% of Websites have “Critical Vulnerability Issues“) industry insiders are starting to take notice of our mantra that the web is NOT safe r financial transactions and the slow realization that a software application is not the answer is starting to take a foothold.
Therefore…we expect 2009 to be a year of migration from the belief that software (inside the browser) is “secure enough” to hardware (outside the browser) provides the security “necessary” to transact
online.Hence, HomeATM is starting to make some noise in the Payments Industry. Here’s a quick review of what has transpired since February:
- ATM & Debit News featured us twice in the past couple of months, first in an article entitled: HomeATM Wants to Change the eCommerce Experience…and
then again after HomeATM became the “first and only” company in the world to engineer, design and manufacture a PCI 2.0 Certified PIN Entry Device specifically for eCommerce use. The follow up story on HomeATM is hyperlinked: (here’s the link)- American Banker (Test Planned for Debit Reader for Use at Home) also covered HomeATM twice. (here’s the hyperlink to the second article)
- FinovateStartup09 selected HomeATM as a participating company in it’s annual “Financial Innovations” Showcase and the audience of payments industry experts, VC’s and Financial Institutions selected HomeATM to demo it’s application. see “Finovate Crowd Chooses HomeATM to Demo“
- The GreenSheet featured HomeATM in a featured story called “Doin’ It Right.“
- Several other publications covered our PCI 2.0 Certification, including but not limited to:CNET, The Paypers, ISO & Agent, BusinessWeek and Fortune
This time, HomeATM is being featured by the respected Payment News Authority, “The Nilson Report“
Here’s what they have to say about HomeATM’s secure 2FA (two factor authentication) 3DES end-to-end encrypted, protected by DUKPT PCI 2.0 Certified Pin Entry Device. They got everything right except the size
of the SafeTPIN. The picture depicted states it’s shown at one-half size, but in reality, if you envision the actual size of the debit card you can probably also imagin the actual size of the HomeATM SafeTPIN
(tm) device…
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A new survey into British small business attitudes revealed today that alongside worries of bankruptcy (39%) and strong competition (21%), cybercrime is adding an additional burden and pressure on IT decision makers. The survey commissioned by Trend Micro, a global leader in internet content security, reveals that 20% of UK IT decision makers are concerned about either personal details or confidential company information being stolen.
Mellanox has teamed up with Arista Networks and Supermicro to demo a network design optimal for virtualization and server consolidation.
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19th May 2009, Marlow, UK - A new survey into British small business attitudes today reveals that alongside worries of bankruptcy (39%) and strong competition (21%), cybercrime is adding an additional burden and pressure on IT decision makers. The survey commissioned by Trend Micro, a global leader in internet content security, reveals that 20% of UK IT decision makers are concerned about either personal details or confidential company information being stolen.
Who is most affected by identity theft, who commits the crime and how can people protect themselves? When it comes to the theft of personal information, women beware. According to a study by Affinion Security Center, 17% percent of female identity theft victims have lost $1,000 or more due to the crime, versus only 10% of males.
In addition, more men (61%) avoided losing money than women (53%).
The good news is that most of the cases of identity theft were solved, although some were solved faster than others.
Forty-two percent of cases were closed in less than one week, 20% took between one week and one month and 13% took two months to six months.
Even so, if you are a victim of identity theft, chances are you will never know who did it.
A survey from the Identity Theft Assistance Center (ITAC) found that 72% of victims had no idea know who stole their personal information.
Of those that did, most cases (26.5%) were committed by friends, relatives or in-home employees who had access to personal information. Next came computer-related fraud (21.6%), lost or stolen wallets, checkbooks and credit card accounts (15.1%) and mail fraud (11.6%)
How can consumers protect themselves?
Measures taken by respondents to the Affinion survey to keep their identities secure included:
Anne Wallace, ITAC president, suggests keeping data in the home and workplace in secure locations, monitoring accounts for unusual activity, updating anti-virus software and upgrading browser and operating systems.
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WASHINGTON, May 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Three of the world’s leading cybersecurity groups today launched a new initiative to combat malicious software (malware) by establishing a “Chain of Trust” among all organizations and individuals that play a role in securing the Internet.
Three cybersecurity groups want to create a network of organizations and people focused on securing the Internet in an effort to combat malicious software.