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The .Bank Debate Part II
In my previous post, I commented on the proposed “.Bank” TLD. Since then, F-Secure has defended their proposal in their blog, addressing many of the key issues I commented about. Here is what they had to say about users still being fooled the new addresses: The main point of such a new TLD would not [...]
Read moreThe World's Best Presentation
Tired of boring PowerPoint presentations? Looking for some inspiration? Shift Happens recently won the World’s Best Presentation Contest hosted by SlideShare. It’s a pretty amazing presentation and there is a host of other resources on the site as well. If you’re looking for some pizazz to spice up those really entertaining credit unions presentations, look [...]
Read moreLet's go phishing
Phishing sucks. There’s very little we can do to prevent it and once it happens it can take days before the situation can be resolved. Everyone’s heard the phrase, “the best defense is a good offense”. So could we go on the offensive against phishers? And by offensive, I mean launch a brute force denial [...]
Read moreLambeth Savings & CU in Google Groups
Congrats to Lambeth Savings and CU (in the UK) for being the first credit union to use Google Groups as an outlet for speaking with members. View their Google Groups page here. As I’ve posted about previously, I believe that CU’s have an opportunity to use Google Groups not only for public communication with members, [...]
Read moreMFA not all it's cracked up to be
Christopher Soghoian at Slight Paranoia has a great example of how MFA isn’t the end-all-be-all some wanted it to be. In his article, A Deceit-Augmented Man In The Middle Attack Against Bank of America’s SiteKey ® Service , he demostrates how a phisher can bypass elements of image-based MFA, such as SiteKey. They even have [...]
Read moreThe New Blog
Well it is now official. I have moved my blog from Blogger to a hosted version of WordPress. And I’m pretty stoked. WordPress is a lot more powerful that Blogger is when installed on it’s own server. For anyone with hard links to my site in blogrolls, etc, the new address of my blog is: [...]
Read moreSocial Media and Political Campaigns (and why CU’s should pay attention)
Some of you have probably already read about the sudden usage of social media for the upcoming presidential campaign. Look at Rudy Giuliani for example. The link in his name is to his Wikipedia entry. Rudy’s site has been developed to encourage people to embed “Rudy widgets” on their pages. Look at his Get Involved [...]
Read moreGeni
Nothing too credit union related here, but Geni looks pretty cool. It brings a new aspect to social networking. Simply put, Geni is a family tree that your family, extended family, etc fills in. Start with the branches you know, and then email Uncle Chuck and have him step in to fill out more. Then [...]
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