Uri Rivner CEO and Co-Founder at Refine Intelligence
Last month I spoke at RSA Conference, the world’s largest information security convention. Thousands of IT security managers, vendors, journalists and interested parties come over every year to San Francisco’s Moscone center so they can hear about the latest developments, talk about emerging threats and discuss mitigation strategies. The atmospher...
28 April 2010 /security Innovation in Financial Services
Last week was recovery from RSA Conference, which was awesome. Cybercrime and Cloud were the main two themes, and I provided my Dark Cloud: Cybercriminals get Corporate Aware talk which draws upon both. I’m saying recovery, because during the conference one cannot be expected to respond to any emails, so the backlog is huge. Anyway, I’m back and t...
18 March 2010 /security Innovation in Financial Services
About a month ago I was invited by an English university to talk to computer science students about the state of cybercrime and online banking fraud. The title of the lecture was “Crash Course: How to Become a Successful Online Fraudster”. The lecture was open to the local community, and when I finished about a dozen students grouped around to ask ...
04 March 2010 /security Innovation in Financial Services
Two weeks ago I was cycling in the gym, watching cable TV. Roger Federer was beating Andy Murray live from Melbourne; after losing a point he looked at his tennis racket in puzzlement, as if trying to understand what just happened, and then he resumed winning game after game without even the basic courtesy of showing signs of sweat. Murray gave hi...
14 February 2010 /security Online Banking
Hey, that’s a first. A bank sues a customer over losing money to fraud. It used to be the other way around. Online banking fraud got to executive level attention when in 2005 Bank of America was sued by a customer who got infected with a Trojan and lost $90,000. This was a commercial account, but it had huge ramifications on consumer security. The...
11 February 2010 /security Innovation in Financial Services
Butch Cassidy: You know, when I was a kid, I always thought I'd grow up to be a hero. Sundance Kid: Well, it's too late now. Butch Cassidy: What'd you say that for? You didn't have to say something like that. When I grew up, one of my favorite Hollywood themes was bank robberies. From Bonnie and Clyde to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, crime...
07 February 2010 /security Innovation in Financial Services
I’m interrupting my series of 2009 mega-trends and 2010 projections to discuss the current situation in cybercrime. What a crazy week. First Google says it is prepared to pull its business out of China after cybercriminals used Trojans to hack into Gmail accounts of anti-Chinese government human rights activists. Then it becomes clear over 30 corp...
21 January 2010 /security Innovation in Financial Services
In my first of three entries summarizing 2009 online fraud trends, I suggested that there had never been a better time to be a cybercriminal, and talked about the high grade Trojans currently available to fraudsters. But to use a modern warfare analogy, even if you have nuclear weapons they aren’t really effective without a robust ballistic missil...
13 January 2010 /security Innovation in Financial Services
Thirty years from now if I’ll ever look back and read my old blogs, I’m sure I’ll agree with what my current self is about to state: There was never a better time to be a cybercriminal than in good old 2009. So many things worked in favor of online fraudsters that I doubt if there’ll ever be a year as good as 2009, assuming you’re crooks trying to ...
06 January 2010 /security Innovation in Financial Services
The Russians song by Sting was released in 1985, a year after Tom Clancy’s Hunt for Red October. No one could have guessed that within a couple of years, Perestroika and Glasnost would begin to defreeze the US-Russia relations. The Soviet Union collapse in 1991 marked the end of the 45-years-long cold war, and Tom Clancy had to look for other theme...
18 December 2009 /security Online Banking
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