A few months ago, Australia was introduced to the new ‘paypass’ technology. No longer do we need to enter a PIN when making payments using our bank cards (cash cards etc) – simply wave your card in front of the ‘machine’, your transaction is processed and approved. The thought of not having to ‘authenticate’ the […]
Identify Yourself! Financial Institutions: Social Engineering At It’s Best???
Social Engineering: is the art of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information, rather than by breaking in or using technical cracking techniques…. In most cases the attacker never comes face-to-face with the victim (Wikipedia). A very basic scenario – someone calls you, say’s they are from a ‘trusted’ organisation (like your bank) […]
