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Beware of Skimming Devices Installed on the ATM Vestibule Doors

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Despite anti-skimmer ATM Lobby access control system available in the market, we have seen a number of incidents in recent years where criminals used card skimmers at ATM doors.

Few years back, cyber criminals started using card skimmers on the door of the ATM vestibule, where customers have to slide their credit or debit cards to gain access to the ATM.

The typical ATM Skimming

Portable storage for the paranoid: We test two secure USB drives on keypad vs. software security

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Congratulations: You’ve decided your data is sensitive enough (or you’re paranoid enough) to store it on a secure USB drive. Basically encrypted storage on a stick, these portable flash drives come with FIPS 140-2 level three validation, meaning the cryptographic module will be rendered inoperable if tampering is detected. It costs quite a bit to acquire validation, which is part of the reason for premium pricing of these drives.

5 Extremely Private Things Your iPhone Knows About You

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With every iPhone, iPad and iPod comes a set of densely worded documents informing you that by using these gadgets you're giving up a ton of highly sensitive information. It's perfectly legal for Apple to gobble up all this personal data because you've basically said it's allowed to do so. Worse, you might not even realize that you have. That's because most of us read the terms and conditions like this:

Big Data 2.0: It’s a Matter for All of Us Now, Not Just Data Specialists

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by Angela Guess Randy Bean of The Wall Street Journal blog recently discussed the concept of Big Data 2.0, writing, “While many executives claim to loath the term Big Data, they should nonetheless appreciate that the term has resonated from Wall Street to Main Street. Data may not provide insights or answers to all questions,…
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