Is mobile banking a fad or the future?

There is no shortage of mobile banking apps for your phone. Whether it is from your actual bank, your credit card provider, your mobile phone provider or even some 3rd party, it seems that when it comes to managing your money on the move, everyone is getting in on the act. The question I continue to ask myself is, WHY?

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Online check-in scams, fraud aimed at the jet set!

Fraudsters are becoming increasingly brazen in their attempts to pry your personal data from you. As more of us learn to recognise the typical phishing email claiming to be from our bank (or any bank for that matter) the success rate of harvesting credentials is dropping and in response, fraudsters are trying out creative new ways to improve their success rate. One such innovation is through the use of online check-in phishing attacks claiming to be from your airline.

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Contactless Payments & Social Engineering

I was recently in London for a series of meetings and decided to catch a cab between appointments. Nothing unusual about that you might think and neither did I until I came to pay my fare. It was the first time I had encountered a London taxi that offered a contactless payment method...

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iPad2 "Give-aways" = ID Theft Too

It's lighter, thinner, faster, more elegant and at the top of any iFan's "I-want-one-of-those" list. Yes, it's the iPad2, released in the UK on March 28th. I admit as I type this blog entry on my "old" iPad1 that I will be eager to get my hands on the new version when it comes out, but not so eager as to fall for the many scams that invariably follow its launch.

High-end, big ticket electronics are a favourite of scammers looking to make a quick buck. The iPad2 is no exception and so please be warned that in the weeks before and after its launch there will no doubt be a flood of email campaigns and websites offering too-good-to-be-true deals on iPad2. They will lure you in with "free" give-aways, "buy one get on free" offers and large discount deals. The fact of the matter is that this just isn't the Apple operating model and these offers and deals are guaranteed scams.

More information to come as this develops, but for the time being, please don't be fooled into the free iPad2 scams that are already out there.

Don't Let Your Valentine Socially Engineer You

In today's fast paced world of IT where messaging systems are all about real-time information sharing and less about handwriting a letter to be sent via the post, many of us are looking to the internet for our relationships. The success of online dataing sites is testament to people's modern day approach to falling in love. This Valentine's Day should be approached with caution especially when it comes to e-cards and pther love related emails, tweets or private messages...

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