Breaches can occur all the time and payment networks are usually the prime targets of hacker communities. A hacker is usually looking for vulnerable systems and attempts to break into these systems when vulnerable systems are found to steal financial information that could be sold online for easy money.
February 2, 2009 | Posted in
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Everything about today is fast, mobile and flexible. Connectivity to an office environment from a remote location is hardly a problem anymore. In fact, your physical geographical location should have no bearing whatsoever on whether you can actually connect to your corporate network. As long as you have the security and internet access available to [...]
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Talha Ghafoor takes a look
The irony of living in a constant state of ‘virtual reality’ doesn’t pass for CIO humor. The benefits of virtualization are numerous and the fact that the lines between real computing and virtual computing are so blurred, it makes you wonder if there isn’t anything that virtualization cannot emulate.
The concept of [...]
The credit card companies issue credit cards to the consumers through banks and other organizations, through which consumers shop on credit and pay bills later. The credit card companies make money two ways: one, by taking commission from merchants and two, by charging interest from the consumers who use their services. The process could be [...]
November 4, 2008 | Posted in
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Talha Ghafoor takes a look!
There are just too many things going on over the network. More often than not, you sit and wait for the email to sound an alarm that someone is running a port scan or trying to crack a password by sheer, old fashioned brute force. That’s why you should always have [...]
October 16, 2008 | Posted in
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