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Friday, August 17. 2007Saturday, August 4. 2007Security Advisory So people please keep your eyes open for websites such as the Virtu Ferries Internet Booking Service. This initially showed up as a quick article on geekbazaar.org by Spacer who copy and pasted what he was presented with after he put in his reservation details online: Payment may be effected by e-mailing your credit card details (Card Type - VISA/MasterCard/AMEX; Card Number; Security Code and expiry MM/YY) to creditcards@virtuferries.com together with the booking reference. Kindly note that if payment is not effected within 24 hours, your reservation may be cancelled. Albeit unbelievable, please DO NOT go ahead with sending your credit card details in an EMAIL !!! If you have to send credit card details as requested above, make sure you do so on a webpage that is secure (SSL) Look for the padlock on the bottom of your browser. For the record, emails are transmitted in clear text and can be viewed by any administrator when in transit to its final destination. Needless to say they can also be abused. The original post can be read here... Friday, August 3. 2007Tokenless Two-factor authentication So, following up on a previous article by Sandro "Why passwords suck" finally comes a website offering the technology empowering tokenless dual factor authentication... Taken from their website I guess here at Maltainfosec.org we couldn't agree more Passwords are often the weakest link in data security. Users pick terrible passwords. Bots and keyloggers harvest passwords by the thousands. Phishing sites trick users into giving passwords away. Passwords can be passed around, sold, or posted on the Internet. Users reuse passwords in- and outside of the office network. They're better than nothing, but most companies need something stronger than passwords. How does it work? PhoneFactor works by placing a confirmation call to your phone during login. You simply answer your phone and press # to confirm the login.Because it just uses a phone call, PhoneFactor is compatible with any TouchTone phone. There is no software to install, and it works with regular phones just as well as with mobiles. Best of all PhoneFactor is FREE PhoneFactor can be installed and configured in minutes with unlimited users and authentications. There are no tokens to mail, no hardware to buy, and no licensing fees to pay. Well we've been waiting for something like this to come around and finally here it is in a variety of ways we can use it! Friday, August 3. 2007Information Security Day Information Security Day was started to spread the awareness of information security issues. Information Security, also known as Information Systems Security (INFOSEC) deals with the different aspects of information and its protection. Information Security Day aims at reducing the risk associated with the information systems by increasing the awareness of user community. The INFOSec Day aims at increasing the awareness in the following areas: More information about the event is here PS> There is also a T-Shirt to buy to get you more in the mood  Of course we support the cause !
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