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Fraudsters target "wire payment switch" at banks to steal millions
- artrea 13y agobitcoin user not affected
- dmix 13y ago> RSA researcher Limor Kessem said she had not seen the wire payment switch attacks in the wild, but the company had received reports of the attacks from customers. Ouch, even worse than expected. They didn't even detect it happening after the fact.
- cynusx 13y agoshe's a consultancy, her customers are banks and other types of financial institutions (I presume)
- confluence 13y agoThis is why I love security so much. You have to continually challenge the assumptions that underlie most people's thinking. For example almost all consumer locks can be picked within 30 seconds. Home alarm devices can be defeated by a quick team, a sledge hammer, a mask, and a car. The most secure systems have been taken down by attacking the email of the security chief's wife. Attackers are bold, they are creative, and they always keep you on your toes. It only takes one tiny opening for an attack to be put into play, and that opening more often than not is just a small stupid little thing that you failed to consider. Things that people don't seem to consider include the personal security of their employees, a USB stick being passed around air gap SCADA systems, or their ability to deal with multiple attacks simultaneously. It only takes one flaw to bring an entire complex system to its knees. It takes a whole lot of challenging faulty abstractions, critical thinking, extreme pessimism and a whole dollop of both cynicism and pragmatism to keep them purring along. Security rocks. Only the paranoid survive.
- epochwolf 13y ago> This is why I love security so much. This is why I hate humanity so much.
- confluence 13y agoWe are nothing without the humanity that surrounds us. Use security to mitigate the downsides that humanity brings.
- retube 13y agoCan't access this site, pop up demanding I register