FATF Guidelines on Virtual Currencies The FATF has published a paper on Guidance for Virtual Currencies. http://www.fatf-gafi.org/media/fatf/documents/reports/Guidance-RBA-Virtual-Currencies.pdf According to the … Read More
Articles tagged "Technical Issues"
Travel and Illness
Travel and Illness Last year I covered 174,500 miles and went around the globe not once but twice. I hate to say this but gut disruption will always be part of the game of travel. Different foods, different times … Read More
Big Data on Fraud
Big Data on Fraud Whether it be security fraud, insurance fraud, billing fraud, or even unemployment fraud, big data and our ability to crunch big data is an important tool. As so much is not automated anymore, we … Read More
Green Cars Are Not That Green
Green Cars Are Not That Green I was asked by one of my daughters “How much better is an electric vehicle over a gas engine? Dad what is your favorite green car?” A good question for a young lady leaning to … Read More
Effective Mobile Security in the Post-Snowden Era
Effective Mobile Security in the Post-Snowden Era The revelation in October 2013 that the US National Security had monitored the mobile phone calls of Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel started alarm bells ringing … Read More
FinCEN wants Natural Persons
FinCEN wants Natural Persons The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), has proposing rules under the Bank Secrecy Act to clarify and strengthen customer due diligence requirements for: (i) banks; (ii) … Read More
Wireless Security Systems Can Be Hacked
Wireless Security Systems Can Be Hacked There has been a recent flurry of articles on wireless computers and computer security but it has come to light, with very little surprise that wireless security systems can … Read More
A Fiber Optic Cable Was Cut
A Fiber Optic Cable Was Cut It was a short trip through Northern California. During the three days my cell phone did not work and twice in two different cities the restaurant took our credit card and used a pencil … Read More
Cell Phone Vulnerabilities
Cell Phone Vulnerabilities What Cell Phone OS is most vulnerable -‐ From Phys.org (edited) Good news! Android OS has around 80% of the total market share. This is in part due to price and the range of devices … Read More
SpyWarn – App
SpyWarn - App The SpyWarn app from Kevin Murray and Associates is $2.99 and is a gem of an app. Not sure if that virus software you installed on your phone is catching everything? Well it’s not! Professionals … Read More
Widows XP – Soon To Be A Legacy
Widows XP - Soon To Be A Legacy On April 8th 2014 Microsoft will end support for Windows XP. An event of planned obsolescence, yet many computers still run XP as it really was one of MS’s best operating … Read More
Losing Control of Your Car
Losing Control of Your Car A while ago we wrote about how a BMW could be hacked. http://www.international-due-diligence.org/hey-who-hacked-my-bmw/ but access to a vehicles computer systems is getting more – … Read More
Turn It Off
Turn It Off I had lunch with a Technical Security Countermeasures expert and he told me a short story. On a recent flight delay in the US north east – running a number of hours 30 or 40 he got bored. He had … Read More
Stock and Bond Certificates
Stock and Bond Certificates The law has acknowledged bits of tablecloth and the back of napkins as both suitable for contracts as well as proof of ownership in an enterprise. However, these forms of construction … Read More
FLIR, Infrared Cameras
FLIR, Infrared Cameras Check out this great website (link below), offering a variety of FLIR , Infrared cameras: … Read More
Vietnamese Root Kit
Vietnamese Root Kit This Vietnamese Root Kit, which is also known as the M-Root Kit Mobile Hacking Tool, was developed in Vietnam. It is a nasty bit of work as it allows even marginally sophisticated hackers … Read More
Money For Corruption and Homes Scott Free
Money For Corruption and Homes Scott Free Money from corrupt players in Latin America, China and the Middle East are flooding into the US real estate market. Now to be sure, while a lot of the purchases of real … Read More
The Perfect Hire
The Perfect Hire The Perfect Hire or the Perfect Avatar? By Susan Goldberg Novelty makes good reading when it comes to print. Every journalist looks for an alternative view, a new angle, something new to inspire, … Read More
Virtual Currency
Virtual Currency In the Wake of Mt. Gox, and Liberty Reserve ~ Where do we Go From Here? There has been plenty of excitement over the past several months in the land of virtual currencies as viable alternatives to … Read More
AML and The Securities Industry
AML and The Securities Industry The securities industry is in for a very rude and expensive awaking. The securities markets, commodities markets, and hedge funds are being used to launder money. No, they are not … Read More
National Background Checks for $25.00?
National Background Checks for $25.00? You see the ads sent to Human Resources Departments, National Background checks for only $25.00. Really, for only $25.00 someone has a database that can check each and … Read More
What Social Media Should I Use?
What Social Media Should I Use? As a business person it depends upon where your customers can be found as well as the marketing model you have designed to reach those customers. If you really know who you customers … Read More
Time To Sell Your Business
Time To Sell Your Business Most businesses are service-based businesses and or, if you will, consultancies. What do you, as an owner, need to do to get your business ready for sale? Some of the standard answers … Read More
Felons In The Workforce
Felons In The Workforce In 2010 it is estimated that 19.8 million people representing 8.6% of the population of the United States have a felony conviction. This is almost double what it was in 1980. Within some … Read More
CMOS terahertz waves
IEEE - Abstract of an article... Up until recently, the terahertz frequency range (0.3 to 3THz) has been mostly addressed by high-mobility custom III-V processes, bulky and expensive nonlinear optics, or … Read More
Background Checks, if you advertise them, you better do them.
In a matter of little consequence we found an item of great consequence. We were asked to perform a due diligence check on a plumbing company that was going to be acquired by our client. The claims made by the … Read More
Data Breach
Please go to and look at http://www.privacyrights.org/data-breach I have been told by reliable sources that only about 20% of major data breaches are reported, thus for August we are looking at many hundreds of … Read More
The Future of the Security Industry
Jules Trocchi, CEO Security Direction International Ltd. The eminent 20th century psychologist Abraham Maslow placed security next in line after physiological drives in his famous hierarchy of human needs. Indeed … Read More
Wi-Fi Blocking Wallpaper
Researchers in Grenoble have had an original idea to prevent your Wi-Fi network from being hacked, you can use wallpaper that block your Wi-Fi signal from leaving the apartment and thus keeping it safe from … Read More
Strengthen Your Mental Fitness
by Gail Kasper, Author, Television Host, Certified Fitness Trainer, and Motivational Speaker Staying mentally fit is as important as being physically fit. In the same way that you exercise to build muscle and … Read More
Dark side of Creativity
The dark side of creativity: Original thinkers can be more dishonest, by Gino, Francesca; Ariely, Dan Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol 102(3), Mar 2012, 445-459. In a recent paper published in the … Read More
E-Commerce Killed The Strip Mall
I heard a new term “book desert”. It is an area that has no books stores. It used to be there was always a place for a few neighborhood books stores along with a big box retailer. The costs of retail … Read More
The Cloud is DOA.
Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as system as a service (SaaS) rather than a product, with shared resources, such as software, and information available over a common network. Cloud computing’s … Read More
Prepare for Success and Manage Failure
by Gail Kasper, Author and Motivational Speaker There are two things many people don’t seem quite prepared for: success and failure. When failure happens, it throws a big wrench into plans. People get completely … Read More
The Perceived Value of a Franchise
Operating in the world of franchised business as I do you learn that many principals that are true in business are magnified by the relationships in franchising. It is fairly obvious that the franchisor … Read More
Technology v. Thinking, aka Photo Radar v. Savvy driver.
Technology seems very important to both organizations and their leaders. Piles amassed in to mountains amassed into continents of data for the purpose of ?. It is all about technology and what technology can do … Read More
Google Latitude and Tracing Friends
Google Latitude and Tracing Friends One drawback of using cutting edge hardware technologies and apps is that frequently, when you analyze the potential synergies, it will cause you to break into a cold sweat. A … Read More