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Smart cards make perpetrating fraud considerably more difficult than "traditional" magstripe cards. In regions where offline processing is the dominant method for processing transactions this especially is true. As a result — and even though we have driven payment card fraud to an all-time low — our industry is now seriously exploring how smart card technology can become the primary driver in the evolution of payment card security. Recent efforts by the financial services industry to reduce the extent of credit card fraud are starting to pay off. It’s not news anymore that cyberattackers penetrating corporate networks are after money, not infamy, these days. The bread they can make from these and other online activities, such as spam, is staggering. One only has to look at the recent case of Christopher William Smith, who allegedly made over $20 million illegally selling prescription drugs through spam emails. Gain insight and contacts to help achieve your goals as an IT security professional, but act fast. One simple way to improve your firm’s password security is incorporating non-US characters. Ken Munro explains Russian authorities have jailed a hacker who not only created his own malware, but ran two websites distributing more than 4,000 different computer viruses. More than 197,000 personal records were exposed in a security breach at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas, school officials said this week. At the SC Magazine Forum, you could gain information, advice and great contacts to help you more readily achieve your goals as an IT security pro. Read on to see if you qualify for a free delegate place. Over the past few months, birdflu has progressively crept closer to the U.K. What’s this got to do with security you might ask? A new survey revealed today that almost half of global e-crime experts believe the biggest threat to organizations’ data comes from “the enemy within," rather than external hackers. RSA Security announced today it has acquired PassMark Security, a leader in online banking authentication solutions, for $44.7 million Entrust will enter the managed public key infrastructure (PKI) service fray by the end of this year’s second quarter, company officials said last week. Almost 90 percent of U.S. bank account holders would like their financial service providers to monitor online banking sessions for signs of irregular activity in the way they currently scrutinize credit card transactions, recently released research has found. Overall Category Winner and Winner for Best Password Management: Password Auto Repository from e-DMZ Security Developers from four rival firms met to work on combating security threats with proposals for safer next generation browsers.

Three or four years ago Howard Schmidt commented that we should have moved away from username and password as an authentication mechanism years before. I recall nodding in agreement with his statement. So I was hardly surprised when the The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) issued its guidance calling for the use of second-factor authentication in online banking. In the view of many vendors, this guidance — after an earlier FDIC advisory on internet banking security — “represents a definitive step toward eliminating single-factor authentication by financial institutions.” There are alternative views.

Just one lone publicly disclosed identity theft incident can make even the largest enterprise beef up information security and privacy practices fast. Nothing new is really going down in information security right now. At least that’s the take of some of SC’s Editorial Advisory Board members. There is no innovation, some say. The industry is stuck in a rut, say others. And it seems they’re not alone. As usual, the SC Magazine readership survey has proven to be a most revealing exercise. Now in its fourth year, the end-of-year survey gives an insight into the mood and daily lives of our readers. Perhaps the single most important thing to remember when creating a new password is to make it hard to guess, but easy to remember. That’s easier said than done, but following some basic guidelines will likely help you become more secure.