Mining companies across the world are waking up to the growing trend of criminal and terrorist organizations targeting the extractive industries. Last month, the mining industry was shocked by the news that the five Chinese mine workers based in Papua New Guinea were badly hurt when armed villagers stormed a nickel mine.
Frankfurt/London: Hackers recently got their hands on almost five million Google Mail passwords and published these on the Internet. Such news stories show that conventional password protection is no longer sufficient on its own. SecurEnvoy, the inventor of tokenless two-factor authentication, has been looking at this issue for many years and designs technologies that ensure greater security for network login procedures. The company will be demonstrating its solutions at the it-sa trade fair in Nuremberg, Germany, which is being held from 7th to 9th October. This new solution enables secure two-factor authentication even when users are offline.
In response to the news that researchers at SophosLabs have detected a surge in Visual Basic malware, noting that macro-based malware accounted for 28 percent of all document malware in July, up from just six percent in June, Tim Erlin, director of security and risk at Tripwire says:
Madrid, Spain: Fonetic has launched SPi Compliance for Retail Banking to tackle the latest obligations faced by financial institutions as set out by the enactment of Title X of the Dodd Frank Act.
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