Good Bye Username and Password
There isn’t a damned thing safe anymore in cyberspace. Each day's news brings another horror story. Business and government are pushing aside the Russian mafia in efforts to remain #1 in giving away the secrets.
What more appropriate time to talk about the Trick or Treat of usernames and passwords than Halloween?
There isn’t a damned thing safe anymore in cyberspace. Each day's news brings another horror story. Business and government are pushing aside the Russian mafia in efforts to remain #1 in giving away the secrets.
Ellen Nakishima reports in the Washington Post
Hackers have been breaking into customer accounts at large online brokerages in the United States and making unauthorized trades worth millions of dollars as part of a fast-growing new form of online fraud under investigation by federal authorities.
E-Trade Financial Corp., the nation's fourth-largest online broker, said last week that "concerted rings" in Eastern Europe and Thailand caused their customers $18 million in losse…