Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The high street bank has two labs that are dedicated to exploring the potential of the online currency. And the financial giant is also helping a charity look at how the technology can be used. At the moment British banks aren’t…
Barclays combating terrorism by hacking its own systems to find holes
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Barclays has assembled a team to ‘attack’ its own computer systems to try and find holes before cyber criminals do. Barclays’ red team has been assembled by Troels Oerting, a former head of Europol’s European Crime Center, who joined the bank…
Barclays contactless card users exposed to fraud
A flaw has been discovered in Barclays contactless bank cards that could allow customers’ data to be stolen and used fraudulently without them even knowing about it. An investigation by ViaForensics, in conjunction with Channel 4 News, has revealed that data can be lifted from Near Field Communications (NFC) chips…
Barclays: 97 percent of data breaches still due to SQL injection
SQL injection attacks have been around for more than ten years, and security professionals are more than capable of protecting against them; yet 97 percent of data breaches worldwide are still due to an SQL injection somewhere along the line, according to Neira Jones, head of payment security for Barclaycard….
