Crime

Mar 15, 2011

Great identity theft infographic

I almost missed this one, but found a wonderful infographic on identity theft produced by Lines & Moodswings. Here it is (doubleclick to enlarge):

Dec 21, 2010

2010 Review: Payments

So, there are a lot of things we’re juggling around with in the payments arena, from real-time to TARGET2 to SEPA to SWIFT ISO20022 to mobile to contactless to biometrics and more. I guess I can summarise this area best by using the results from this year’s payments survey because the last section of the…

Sep 27, 2010

Why does the card securities council not care about card security?

I mentioned that I spent last Friday morning with card fraud and security experts. The conversation began with a wide view of what’s happening, and a focus upon PCI DSS Standard 2.0, which is yet to be published. The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Securities Standards Council (SSC) have developed new versions of the PCI Data…

Sep 24, 2010

If you like card fraud, this one’s for you

Just spent most of today talking about PCI DSS compliance issues with QSAs focused upon E2EE. What? Yea, you heard me right. Delving into an area that I talk a lot about at higher levels usually, but rarely at these levels. Today, I was plumbing the depths of the Payment Cards Industry (PCI) Data Security…

Sep 22, 2010

The end of privacy

I continue to be stunned by how Facebook and other social media allow me to see things in other people’s lives that should not be seen. For example, all of my friend’s friends photographs. This is a feature of Facebook I particularly dislike, and I’m not sure people are even aware of it, although the…

Aug 10, 2010

Blowing the lid off private banking secrecy

During the past week, the US Magazine Global Post published an amazing series of articles about the insider truth of being a private banker with UBS in Switzerland. The five article series charts the operations of one Bradley Birkenfeld – a Boston-born, high-flying, cross-border banker – at Switzerland’s premier financial institution, UBS. In this role,…

Jul 23, 2010

You’re all individuals, you’re all different

What a funny old week it’s been. Having blogged a lot about identity in the past, the week began with two peak time TV viewing programs about identity on Monday: Who do you think you are? on the BBC and Identity on ITV. These programs are all about finding out about you and then keeping…

Jun 1, 2010

The name is Skinner … Jason Skinner

I’m intrigued by the number of discussions there are around identity. There have been several here recently, for example: Adventures in identity: are you paranoid or schizophrenic? If identities are unique, why do I have so many? Why identity management is so complicated And there are a number of blogs dedicated to identity management issues,…

May 6, 2010

What do criminals, bankers and Warren Buffett have in common?

Some years ago, I delivered a presentation as a keynote with the title: “All Bankers are Criminals”. I actually didn’t mean “all”. The chicken feed, battery farmed, commercial, transactional and retail bankers are pin-stripe suited, humble pie, nice guys. I was talking about the evil animals of Wall Street and the City. These jungle animals…

Apr 27, 2010

Why identity management is so complicated

It fascinates me when we talk about ‘identity’ that we always seem to think of identity management as being a single thing … but it’s not. First, there’s the use of identity for identification; second for authentication; third, for verification; and fourth for fulfilment. Then there are the many instances of providing and proving identification:…