James Eccher, chief executive and president of Old Second Bancorp Inc. has announced in a press release that the bank has agreed to use IronKey‘s Trusted Access for online banking security.
Trusted Access “helps protect customers even if criminals have managed to install crimeware on their PC,”
Read more over at americanbanker.com
Leading tech companies such as Google & Facebook are teaming up to design a system to combat emails scams, otherwise known as phishing.
Phishing is used to trick people in to giving away personal information by sending emails that appear to come from a reputable source such as their bank.
You can read more over at stuff.co.nz
Hacking group “Anonymous” has claimed responsibility for hacking Stratfor, a private American intelligence company.
They claim to have stolen credit card numbers and other personal information belonging to Strafor’s clients.
New Zealand clients include the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Air New Zealand, the New Zealand Police and Fire Service, as well as ANZ and BNZ banks.
You can read more over at stuff.co.nz
Online shoe retailer Zappos has been the victim of a cyber attack which has affected more than 24 million customer accounts within its database.
Zappos has revealed customers’ names, email addresses, billing and shipping addresses, phone numbers and the last four digits of credit cards numbers and scrambled passwords were stolen.
Zappos is owned by Amazon.com
You can read more over at stuff.co.nz
stuff.co.nz has a good article with some handy tips on how to create a better password.
It seems we’re not very creative when we come up with our passwords. In 2009, 10,000 Hotmail passwords were leaked. The most popular passwords?
123456, followed by 123456789. Not very secure!
I use the Password Generator tool over at pctools.com whenever I need a new password. It’s great. It instantaneously generates a password of whichever length you choose. So next time you’re in need of a password, give this tool a go.
SC Magazine has announced IronKey as a finalist in two categories of the 2012 Reader’s Trust Awards.
IronKey’s Trusted Access was announced as a a Finalist in the category of Best Fraud Prevention, while IronKey’s cloud-based management service, IronKey Enterprise Management Service, was announced as a Finalist in the Best Mobile/Portable Device Security category.
IronKey has twice previously won 1st place awards, and this year is the fifth year IronKey has been announced as a finalist by readers of SC Magazine.
“IronKey’s Trusted Access enables banks to provide their customers with a secure browsing solution for online banking and e-commerce that keeps them safe on their own PCs, even if the PC is infected with the latest zero-day attack that would go undetected by anti-virus and other software.”
You can read the full press release at marketwatch.com
Researchers at Stanford University have created an automated tool capable of working through text-based anti-spam tests such as CAPTCHA. CAPTCHA is a very common anti-spam test commonly used on websites where users can submit information.
CAPTCHA stands for ‘Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart’.
You can read more over at pcworld.com
A report from Javelin Strategy & Research has revealed that in 2010 an estimated 8.1 million Americans fell victim to identity theft, resulting in a loss of more than $37 billion dollars.
You can read more over at savannahnow.com
Financial Fraud Action UK has published figures revealing that £16.9 million was lost due to online banking fraud from January to June this year. This compares to £24.9 million lost during the same time period in 2010.
Technology such as IronKey Trusted Access helps prevent online banking fraud.
You can read more at bcs.org
Dave Jevans, Chairman and Founder of IronKey, has updated his blog with a post on what the recently announced IronKey & Imation merger means for IronKey users.
You can read Dave’s thoughts over at his official IronKey blog, found here.