Banking Sites (like Chase.com and Americanexpress.com) Security Questioned

August 10th, 2006 Researchers at Cardiff University have uncovered a flaw in HSBC's online banking security process that has left over three million customer accounts vulnerable to attack over the last two years. The researchers found that anyone using the attack would have guaranteed access to an account with at most nine tries.

April 4th, 2008 Oracle plans to make its Indian subsidiary a hub for its strategy for the financial services market. I-flex solutions, the Indian banking software subsidiary of Oracle, said that it will change its name to Oracle Financial Services Ltd.

February 19th, 2005 If this works out then no more forgotten passwords for me! Keyloggers will still work. Not only that you can now trick anyone to type on your computer anything and analyse the pattern to figure out his password.

June 26th, 2006 Free web browser - Browsezilla promotes itself as a tool for privacy protection. It is actually a click-fraud engine for pornographic sites, said security vendor Panda Software.

July 9th, 2009 Official: 7 SKorean Web sites under renewed attackSEOUL, South Korea — A state official says seven South Korean Web sites are under renewed cyber attack. Ku Kyo-young from the state-run Korea Communications Commission said the latest assault began around 6:30 p.m.

July 9th, 2009 Official: S. Korea web sites under renewed attackSEOUL, South Korea — A state official says seven South Korean Web sites are under renewed cyber attack.

May 17th, 2006 Blue Security came with an innovative solution to target spammers - by spamming them with opt-out requests. It worked surprisingly well and spammer's were naturally not happy.

March 15th, 2009 Firefox 3 onwards has a nice feature which warns you of sites which are suspected of forgery or attacks (through trojans, malware etc.). Unfortunately the feature is too intrusive and warns you repeatedly, nags you to death is a better phrase to describe it, even when you have confirmed that the site is genuine.

March 31st, 2009 Be prepared to protect your data in the internet or else you may land up in serious trouble. With our increasing dependency over the internet, the crimes have taken a steep hike too.

October 12th, 2005 According to Forrester: The majority of enterprises worry most about reliability when acquiring security technologies — thus, only 19% experience shaky deployments. In contrast, just 13% consider cost a top priority when buying, which means that more than one-third suffer from implementation sticker shock.

July 24th, 2006 Indian government had ordered blocking of some blogspot.com blogs and few other sites which are supposedly derogatory to Islam, including Hindu human rights site (makes you wonder if we live in Islamic country, doesn't it?). Our ISP's decided to block all blogspot domains including millions of totally unrelated blog sites like my old java technology blog.

June 24th, 2009 LONDON - The British Prime Minister is set to announce the appointment of the nation's first cyber security chief who will be responsible to protect the country from terrorist computer hackers and electronic espionage. Brown's decision comes amid fears that the computer systems of government and business are vulnerable to online attacks from hostile countries and terrorist organisations.

July 6th, 2009 SAN JOSE, Calif. — Microsoft Corp.

May 4th, 2005 I am sure most of us have noticed at grocery stores and large retailers, the cashiers rarely, if ever, verify your signature. In fact some even give back your card before you return your signed receipt! I didn't know how pervasive the problem was till I read John Hargrave's exploits with credit card.

August 31st, 2007 Tata Indicom now allows you to pay your bills online using your credit card or using your net banking account. As a Tata Indicom Broadband customer this is a big convenience for me.