Guess who pays the bill for card security?
Given the disastrous state of the card industry in the UAE, I was glad to receive a new chip-packing debit card from my bank this week
Raising security awareness
The UAE’s credit card fraud problems seem to have gotten much worse this week, with bank HSBC going as far as insisting all of its customers must change their PINs by 6pm today (which is not so convenient for any HSBC customers who might be traveling at the moment...)
Pretend nothing happened
So we have yet another financial security incident in the UAE, and once again, the financial institutions decline to comment on what's going on, preferring to leave their consumers in the dark
IE 8 will be secure, not sexy
Microsoft released the second beta of Internet Explorer 8 last week, and although a lot of its new features aren't exactly new to other browsers, the increased feature list does suggest that Redmond hasn't given up on the browser market just yet
Cyber war is here to stay
The conflict between Georgia and Russia looks like it has been brought to a halt for now, but like many modern conflicts, the physical war was accompanied by an online exchange
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