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Monthly Archive for December, 2009

The difference between being secure and not

Posted in Security Architecture on Dec 31st, 2009

Just recently read that a German scientist, Karsten Nohl, managed to crack GSM crypto A5/1 due to a vulnerability not previously exposed. The thing that got my attention is the response from the GSM-organization. “The vulnerability is only theoretical because it is illegal to crack the crypto”. I suspect that this is mostly due to […]

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Fraud figures from Sweden

Posted in Business, Compliance, Security Architecture on Dec 5th, 2009

In a swedish article today some interesting figures is shown from bank transaction frauds, including credit card frauds: • 600-700 M SEK was lost 2008 (60-70 M EUR) • 1% of the grown up population was affected (60 000) • 84% got their money back partly or in full FI, Finansinspektionen, the authority responsible for […]

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