Information Security – the Aspect You Should Not Save On
Not so much time has passed since the meaning of the word «computer» was familiar only to employees of certain research laboratories and information security was a concern of special services. But those days are gone. Information technologies have drastically changed our lives. Using a computer, we have a rest, make friends, work, and do shopping. Very often the cost of convenience to do a lot of things, without getting up from a...
Virus CoreBot Turned into a Dangerous Banking Trojan
In late August, a new Trojan Virus CoreBot was discovered by IBM specialists. At first, it did not look particularly dangerous: its possibilities were limited to stealing local passwords and personal data of users in different browser and desktop applications. However, experts were seriously concerned about the modular structure of the new threat that promised great potential for its development. And they were right. In the first ten...
Two-Factor Authentication in the PCI DSS Standard
The use of payment cards for the modern man has long been commonplace. But we do not always think about how extensive and complex is the work that was done by the companies which provide such services, how many diverse requirements they complied in order to give us the possibility simply to insert the card into the slot of the ATM and get our money or book the room in the internet before the vacation trip. Meanwhile, getting the right...
The Theft of The Century, or Why Do News Websites Need Two-Factor Authentication?
Why Is Two-Factor Authentication Necessary? Increasingly more companies are using two-factor authentication in their online operations. Sometimes, it surprises or even annoys their users. They may think: why waste my precious time on entering additional characters? Isn’t a password sufficient? With the widely spread advanced computer technologies, we have possibilities that our parents could only read about in science fiction novels....
Selfie Based Authentication in Banking System: “Latest Fad” or Increased Protection Reliability?
It is no secret that for a long time now MasterCard has been working on solving the problem of authentication in the banking system and testing an application that would use traditional two-factor authentication to authenticate customers and authorize online purchases based on the face recognition technology and not numerical codes. In other words, to be able to pay with a credit card online, the card holder would have to take a...