January 1, 2010 1:47 AM
Posted by: Arian Eigen Heald
ACH Fraud,
Banking Fraud,
Data Breaches,
data security,
information security,
Tearing My Hair OutThe Federal authorities and the American Banking Association have issued an alert to small and medium-sized businesses to use a dedicated PC for banking.
"The alert advises businesses to dedicate a single computer for online banking activity that is never used for reading e-mail or surfing...
December 22, 2009 7:09 PM
Posted by: Arian Eigen Heald
Admins and Auditors,
Tearing My Hair OutIn a previous article, I talked about the issues faced by IT Security and financial auditors, in trying to come together. Financial auditors only care about financial systems and...
December 4, 2009 10:46 PM
Posted by: Arian Eigen Heald
Admins and Auditors,
Tearing My Hair OutIt often seems as if IT Security and auditors will never meet in the middle. As a person with one foot in either side of the fence, I'm often amazed how two groups with fundamentally the same goals can't seem to agree.
Usually, when this happens, I'm an auditor sitting with IT Security people,...
October 30, 2009 12:53 AM
Posted by: Arian Eigen Heald
Data Breaches,
Hardware & InfoSec,
information security,
Stupid Technology,
TCM (Truly Clueless Management),
Tearing My Hair Out,
WirelessIn my previous post, I discussed the Time Warner/SMC modem enormous security flaw.
Lo and behold, I am visited and left a comment by "Adam Wood" defending SMC,...
October 21, 2009 6:52 PM
Posted by: Arian Eigen Heald
Data Breaches,
data security,
information security,
Stupid Technology,
Tearing My Hair Out,
WirelessAs lf 10/20/09, a software maven has written of a major security hole (one you can drive a TRUCK through) in the wifi/cable modem models issued to customers who don't want to use their own equipment.
Here's the link, in all its' details, by David Chen,...
April 29, 2009 11:46 AM
Posted by: Arian Eigen Heald
Data Breaches,
laptop encryption,
laptop security,
Tearing My Hair OutSC Magazine has reported that a laptop belonging to the State of Oklahoma was stolen, with 1 million names, Social Security numbers, birth dates and home addresses of Oklahoma's Human...
March 17, 2009 2:13 AM
Posted by: Arian Eigen Heald
Data Breaches,
PCI DSS,
Start Laughing Now,
Tearing My Hair OutVisa is in a difficult position: it has said that merchants must be compliant, and the ultimate threat is to pull processing permissions from non-compliant merchants.
But if one of the merchants turns out to be a payment processor that generates huge profits for Visa, do they cut off their nose...
February 5, 2009 6:12 PM
Posted by: Arian Eigen Heald
Data Breaches,
TCM (Truly Clueless Management),
Tearing My Hair OutThe Ponemon Institute (I keep wanting to say Pokemon, don't you?) is about to release it's fourth annual study on data breach activity.
What differentiates this report from the study provided by McAfee? Well, for...
January 22, 2009 5:49 PM
Posted by: Arian Eigen Heald
Microsoft Windows,
Security,
Tearing My Hair OutIf you haven't heard by now, the "downadup" worm (renamed various other things by competing vendors) is propagating itself like crazy across the Internet. Various software vendors have added some artificial hype about how fast it is spreading, but I didn't get sweaty palms until I read that US_CERT...
