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Bluetooth Needs Long PINS For Security
News Bluetooth, the wireless connection used on PDAs and phones, is not safe unless you use an eight-digit PIN number to secure devices, users have been warning. For security, Bluetooth devices will not communicate until they have 'paired' -- a one-off...
[June 27, 2005, 17:55]
Barclays And NatWest Trail Lloyds TSB Trial
Talkback NatWest require a customer number/birthdate combination, a pin number with variable selected digits and a password with variable selected alphanumerics for full access. This is much tougher than Barclays ibank access which simply requires a...
[April 27, 2006, 10:35]
New Technology 'making ID Theft Easier'
News Research carried out by the university found criminals are 'shoulder surfing' customers as they type in their PINs at the checkout and then stealing the cards, or using a stolen card by pretending to be a confused customer who has forgotten their...
[September 6, 2005, 9:10]
VoIP Connection With Calling Cards
Blog The service is available with a number of features such as a permanent PIN that provides the opportunity to refill the calling card whenever it is required to add on more minutes. The access number and the pin number can be availed at any place...
[May 1, 2008, 8:03]
Calculator Looking Number Generator From The Bank
Blog Comment I'm not sure quite how yours works but some I know produce a random number when you press a button; you then use this random number (something you have), which is only valid for a couple of minutes, along with your PIN (something you know) to...
[April 4, 2008, 11:27]
Fake PayPal Site Could Lead To Identity Theft
News Personally, I find it peculiar that PayPal are asking for such highly sensitive information to be sent without requesting that customers log into a secure server, particularly that they are asking for ATM Pin number along with credit card number...
[July 9, 2003, 13:54]
Mobile Phones Key To E-commerce Security
News When the user enters a PIN to a site's log-in screen, the system will send an SMS message to the user's mobile phone, giving them a "virtual token", usually an eight-digit number. Losing your mobile phone or having it stolen might compromise the...
[September 4, 2002, 9:36]
Barclays And NatWest Trail Lloyds TSB Trial
News The card validated the PIN and produced a one-time number which is displayed on the reader and can be verified by the card issuer's system. We will be undertaking larger-scale pilots next year based on Chip-and-PIN technology utilising a card...
[October 20, 2005, 12:25]
E-commerce Minister Proposes Online Voting
News The idea of issuing voters with a PIN number is controversial -- safeguards will be needed to ensure that constituents only vote once, and there is also the risk of apathetic voters selling on their PIN number.
[October 26, 2001, 7:30]
Electoral Commission Hopes For Email Voting Next Year
News There is also controversy surrounding the idea of issuing voters with a password or PIN number: "What's to stop the apathetic voter from selling his PIN number to a voter who cares? The chairman of the Electoral Commission revealed on Sunday that...
[April 30, 2001, 15:41]
RFID Helps Create The Paper Computer
News The user places the card on a sensor linked to their PC and type their pin number in, to get access to their electronic bank account. Cypak says this avoids the danger of typing a pin number directly into a computer keyboard where keystrokes can be...
[March 19, 2004, 13:05]
Arrests Made Over £350,000 Router Theft
News All the stolen models have two-pin plugs as they were destined for European markets. D-Link do supply the UK market with a very similar router, but this of course has a three-pin plug," said Kent Police Detective Constable Freddie Elspass Collins.
[October 13, 2006, 17:45]
Inside The Biggest Bank Raid That Never Was
News At least one of these should not be requested in full - for example, ask for the second, third and fourth digits of a PIN, in a random order, rather than the entire number. For example, the user has a password or pin, together with a random number...
[March 21, 2005, 9:25]
Intel Prepares Nine New Chips For Launch
News The chipmaker is also expected to add a 775-pin, 3.4GHz Pentium 4 Extreme Edition processor. Intel will debut a new 775-pin socket for attaching its processors to the motherboard or main circuit board in PCs, along with the new chipsets.
[June 7, 2004, 8:35]
Banks Nearing Agreement On Web Security
Talkback The OVERLORD technology will immediately DETECT and PREVENT any account hijacking, attempt to use stolen card/account or number, unauthorised logon attempts and even unauthorised transactions at ATM's with stolen or forged cards and PIN's...
[February 15, 2006, 4:56]
Online Banks Plan Face-recognition Trials
News Internet banks in the UK and Europe are set to trial facial recognition technology in the New Year that will authenticate customers from their home PC instead of passwords or PIN numbers. While facial recognition technology is undoubtedly far more...
[December 12, 2003, 8:45]
Vodafone Denies Responsibility For Stolen SIM Bill
Talkback Surely, in this day and age, one uses a PIN number on a SIM card. Then, provided you don't lose a SIM in a phone which is already logged into the network, you are at little risk of anyone running up bills on the account if the SIM is stolen.
[May 25, 2006, 16:54]
Give Public Biometrics The Finger
Talkback I understand what people can do with a stolen card/PIN/ NI number and so on but what could they do with a finger print? I can see how an electronic copy could be used to forge online transactions also but in a shop?
[October 26, 2005, 14:24]
Passwords Are Facing Redundancy, Says Gates
Talkback Isn't a PIN number a password, though? Consider that there are only 10,000 possible 4-digit PIN numbers, compared to almost 15 million possible 4-character case-sensitive purely alphanumeric passwords.
[November 16, 2004, 12:14]
RFID With Bio-Smart Card In Linux
White Papers Combination of smart card and biometrics has achieved in two step authentication where smart card authentication is based on a Personal Identification Number (PIN) and the card holder is authenticated using the biometrics template stored in the...
[April 18, 2007, 0:00]
