Thursday, 27 November 2025

What are the security implications?

London: The results of a survey released today reveals that people would prefer to lose the contents of their wallets than their mobile phones! The study asked what people would most fear losing from their back pocket – 37% said their ‘personal phone’; 20% their ‘company phone’; 25% said ‘£50’; with just 18% citing ‘credit cards’. This is further confirmation that, as a nation, we’re not only increasingly attached to our phones, but that we’re also gripped by nomophobia – the fear of being out of mobile contact.

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Below a media alert from Trusteer which warns s that fraudsters are disguising PCs to fool device fingerprinting used by fraud detection systems. Trusteer has discovered a tutorial published in underground forums that explains how criminals can circumvent fraud detection systems that use device identification to track and detect anomalous transaction and access patterns “Fingerprinting”. The tutorial shows criminals how to:

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Reading UK: Norbain and Intransa have joined forces to offer customers dependable, universal access to security applications such as video surveillance. Intransa delivers server, storage and application platforms and a wide range of industry-leading services. Their ground-braking technology lowers cost and eliminates the complexity and ongoing support challenges of integrating commodity servers and storage, while slashing energy consumption and increasing reliability.

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