Dernières actualités – Technologie & Sécurité 20/03/2011
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RSA SecurID Customers Fear Fallout From Targeted Attack On Security FirmRSA SecurID customers are bracing for the worst in the wake of the revelation by RSA late yesterday that information related to its SecurID two-factor authentication products had been stolen a major cyberespionage attack.
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Google Installing Thousands of Special Cash- Register Systems for NFC Test
Google is rumored to be working with VeriFone Systems on a deal that will see thousands of special cash registers installed across major markets such as New York, Washington DC, and Chicago.
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Japan’s Mizuho Bank Struggles With System Failure
Computer system problems at one of Japan’s biggest banks continued on Friday, with Mizuho Bank unable to process salary payments for more than half a million people. The bank also said its Internet banking service and ATMs would be offline over Japan’s upcoming three-day weekend.
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U.S. Banks Wildly Unprepared For Japan-Type Disaster
Japan’s one-two punch of earthquake and tsunami has left the country on the brink of a nuclear meltdown, claimed thousands of lives and left tens of thousands of homes and businesses without power. It is also yet another sad reminder that man-made and natural disasters regularly can and will happen around the world.
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Nasdaq Hack Attack Raises New Security Concerns For Financial Industry
Raising new concerns over security at exchanges, Nasdaq OMX says hackers have infiltrated its computer systems, gaining access to highly confidential data on publicly listed companies.
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Twitter turns on HTTPS to counter hackers
Twitter has turned on an encryption setting designed to thwart session-cookie hijacking and impersonation of users of the social-networking service.
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20 Irish companies to meet Bank of America technologists
Enterprise Ireland is bringing 20 of Ireland's leading high-tech companies to New York today, to meet with leading technologists from Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofAML).
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Visa, ANZ in iPhone mobile payment trial
A contactless iPhone payment system, developed to serve as a stopgap given Apple’s reported boycott of existing Near Field Communications (NFC), is being trialled by Visa and Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) Banking Group.
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Wells Fargo ATMs accept donations for Japan’s earthquake victims
Wells Fargo & Company is employing the majority of its nationwide ATM network to help raise money for victims of Japan’s March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The bank’s decision makes the fund-raising effort one of the most dramatic examples of using ATMs to accept charitable donations.
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Bank of America, victime d'une fuite organisée ?
Une étrange fuite commence à se diffuser au sujet de documents appartenant à la Bank of America. Un groupe de hackers pouvant apparemment appartenir aux Anonymous met en ligne des correspondances entre la banque et une filiale. Des documents censés masquer certains dossiers de prêts.
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EMC/RSA piraté, la solution SecurID compromise
Les pirates qui se sont introduits dans les systèmes de RSA ont probablement dérobé des informations stratégiques sur la technologie d’authentification SecurID remettant en cause son intégrité.
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Marc Barbezat
Veilleur et spécialiste en cybersécurité
