Have you ever mistyped an email address? Ever had someone misspell yours? Email address typos occur all the time, and these misspellings can actually be a very large security concern for your business. [More]
Sep 9, 2011 • by Mac Fowler
Passwords, ugh, don't you hate them? Passwords are a shared annoyance and inconvenience for all of us these days. Passwords are our main line of defense to verify we are who we say we are and to protect our identity and data. Since passwords are such a critical component to our daily technology lives we've been forced to make them less "guessable" more cryptic and thus harder to remember.
The most common technique for making your password has been to take a word, it is called a pass-WORD after all, and add some capitals, a number and then maybe some funky symbol like #, % or !. This is great, but surprisingly enough, this isn't really as secure as it could be AND it's silly hard to remember.
Today the witty folks at xkcd, an online daily comic for techie nerds such as ourselves, posted a great little comic covering this topic.
Comic courtesy of xkcd
The first row explains, in some... [More]
Aug 10, 2011 • by Mac Fowler
Secure File Exchange is one of those apps that we just love to work on because there are so many creative ways our customer's using it. So, we figured we would share a few. [More]
Aug 2, 2011 • by Mac Fowler
The latest FFIEC security guidelines recommend that financial institutions add multi-factor authentication (MFA) to all Internet systems, including website content management systems. Our 2011 InetActive includes multi-factor authentication support, but the older versions do not, nor do most other website content management systems (CMS). [More]
Aug 1, 2011 • by Mac Fowler
A judge in Michigan may have set a precedent when he ruled in favor of a small business that sued Comerica Bank for reimbursement of $561,000 to recover money that hackers stole from the business' account as a result of a phishing scam. The judge believed that Comerica should have done more to safeguard its customer's assets. Unfortunately many banks and credit unions lack adequate security & notification features in their online banking systems to help customer protect themselves. But many of the tools and technologies that could have prevented Comerica's loss are available to all banks and at minimal cost.
I'm going to introduce you to four security features that can help customers proactively protect their assets and subsequently lower the loss risk to banks and credit unions. [More]
Jun 28, 2011 • by Jason Sherrill
