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New iPhone Bug Presents “Siri”ous Security Risk

For those of you with Siri still enabled on the lockscreen of your iPhone, time to shut her off. Israeli security researcher Dany Lisiansky has discovered a new bug in Apple’s iOS 7 which allows anyone access to the iPhone whether it is locked or not. The bug involves the us...

Sean Waugh To Present at IT Security Conference

An MSSP’s insight on network monitoring tools. Infotex’s very own Sean Waugh will be presenting at this year’s IT Security and Risk Management Conference. Sean’s talk will focus on network monitoring tools and how your company can design a plan of act...

2013 IT Security & Risk Management Conference

Are you ready for this year’s IT Security Conference? Note: As we are a Preferred Service Provider for the Indiana Bankers Association and because Dan Hadaway is the facilitator for this conference, we want to make sure that we assist the IBA in getting the word out a...

Survey Shows Workers Intentionally Ignore Policy When It Comes To Cloud Services

Six IT experts share their ideas on preventing intentional cloud usage by employees. A new survey from uSamp shows that 41% of workers used an unauthorized cloud service to store company documents in the last six months. Worse than that, 87% of those workers were well aware...

Bank Cyber-Heist Thwarted By Police

Criminal gang prevented from stealing millions from London bank. A criminal gang’s attempt to rob a London branch of Santander Bank was thwarted by Metropolitan Police last week. The Police’s Central-Crime Unit (PCeU) were able to arrest 12 men who allegedly planned to use ...

Apple Rumored to Include Biometric Fingerprint Sensor in Future iPhone

Biometric fingerprint scanners may be coming to an iPhone near you. Though infotex believes that biometrics is still not where it needs to be before it becomes a reliable means of authentication, here’s an article that makes a good case against our position. The rumor aroun...

Microsoft Announces Retirement of Windows XP – Hackers Prep for Attack

For those who still haven’t retired Windows XP, doomsday may be fast approaching. Microsoft has recently announced that it plans to cease patching one of their most successful operating systems, Windows XP. The date is set to April 8, 2014 and hackers across the world have ...

The Anatomy of a CAT Attack

In order to understand the power of the three layers of security required by the June 2011 Supplement to the FFIEC’s 2005 Guidance on Authentication in an Internet Banking Environment, it is helpful to understand just how a corporate account takeover (CAT) attack works. Nowa...

What customers need to be told

According to the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council’s (FFIEC), a financial institution’s customer awareness and educational efforts should address both retail and commercial account holders and, at a minimum, include the following elements: An explanation of...

Corporate Account Takeovers: Where Compliance Pays

As the “compliance burden” continues to rise, we may sometimes wonder whether information security regulations are worth the effort.  This is a story of how the FFIEC got it right. A Short History Lesson For many in banking, this story may appear to have started ...