Ever found your bank statements on Facebook? How about your health records and business plans? That’s what happened to a friend-of-friend of mine. My friend found her friend’s family pictures, health records, business plans and bank statements on Facebook. The friend-of-friend engaged me to help her out from this as she had no clue how… Continue reading Fraud Using Facebook
Risk Based Authentication
The technique that uses both contextual and historical user information along with data supplied during an internet transaction to assess the probability of whether a user interaction is authentic or not is called risk based authentication. Traditional username and password along with information such as who the user is, from where the user is logging… Continue reading Risk Based Authentication
Biometrics Authentication
Passwords and personal identification numbers (PIN) are information that we need to remember since the day we started interacting with digital systems. Do we know the count of passwords we need to remember? Do we know if we forgot a password already? Some of these passwords also known as passphrase are long to remember that… Continue reading Biometrics Authentication
Disk Overwrite or Wipeout Best Practice
An online search shows majority of tools available for wiping out data on a disk points to a practice of 7 wipes. They believe that it is a US DoD requirement. Some of them support the Gutmann method of 35 wipes. However, I could not find any documentation on US government website that indicates seven… Continue reading Disk Overwrite or Wipeout Best Practice
Authentication – Level of Assurance
Authentication is the process of confirming an entity’s identity based on reliable credentials. The process and the technology involved in authentication varies with various level of assurance required from the entity. Authentication Level of Assurance can be defined as the authentication strength required for a relying party to be assured that an entity is indeed… Continue reading Authentication – Level of Assurance