Sunday, 29 March 2026

The rise in popularity of hosted, cloud and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications has made the task of securing these applications and the critical data they use more difficult for developers.  Advanced stateless applications, multi-tenanted and redundant cloud based architectures need to be taken into account at the earliest stages of design and throughout the development process. All the while, security processes must be adhered to and implemented on platforms that are rapidly evolving.

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Trusteer’s CTO Amit Klein on Trusteer research that has discovered two online banking fraud schemes designed to defeat one time password (OTP) authorization.  In these scams the criminals steal the actual mobile device SIM (subscriber identity module) card to execute fraudulent transactions. Since accounts protected by OTP systems typically have higher transfer limits and are less scrutinizes, they are more lucrative which is why criminals are willing to go to great lengths to gain access to them.

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