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Ainsley Ward Vice President, Payments Solutions at CGI
Just tracking a press release on the Europa portal and saw that they are releasing press releases in the future... The link takes you to a press release on the Spanish Presidency site that will be published some time in February! http://www.eu2010.es/en/documentosynoticias/noticias/greco.html Spooky :-)
22 January 2010
Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
Those of you Twitters out there may be experiencing a slow Twitter day. No, it is not due to old Teddy Kennedy turning in his grave (I'll spare the Finextra Community my views on that one). But it seems Bill Gates joined Twitter last night...and broke it. Oh dear. Or it was just the too many Whales ...not as much fun.
20 January 2010
Keith Appleyard IT Consultant at available for hire
"HM Revenue and Customs: Handling telephone enquiries", published by the National Audit Office on 15 January, says that HMRC's customer contact directorate answered only 57% of the 103 million attempted calls in 2008-09. This compares with 71% in the year before and an industry benchmark of more than 90%. In the first half of 2009-10 the...
18 January 2010 /payments
Retired Member
In case you've not seen this yet - here's a slightly disturbing insight into the state of awareness of information technology issues in the UK. According to a recent survey, one in 10 Britons think Apple founder Steve Jobs is a trade union leader. One in 20 thinks he's a footballer. Nine percent thought Sir Tim Berners-Lee was head of MI5. Two perc...
15 January 2010
The A5/1 encryption cypher fell last week and now the A5/3 has been cracked. Not a good week for mobile phone carriers and alarm bells should be ringing if you are planning involving the GSM association in any secure applications and perhaps you need to revisit the risk equation. For those in the know a new type of attack was used to construct a si...
13 January 2010 /security /regulation
I didn't get to wait until the New Year for those GSM mobile phone conversations and phone banking sessions to become even more accessible to criminals (it is unlawful to intercept mobile communications in most civilised countries, however even governments don't seem to pay any attention to that one so criminals aren't likely to either): NYTimes G...
31 December 2009 /security /regulation
Finextra is soon to head off in our separate directions for our Christmas break. So I thought I would scribble down some New Year predictions. Fed up with Sibos prices, a 'major international bank' will set up a snack booth outside one of Amsterdam's various cafes - attendees claim bratwurst at the show was the best ever and would gladly pay twice...
17 December 2009
Facebook has changed the way its privacy settings operate, asking users to change their settings even if they had already been set. Users logging on this week are presented with a new screen that they must engage with before going on to use the site. It asks users to update their privacy preferences in the light of the site's "new, simplified...
11 December 2009 /security /regulation
The opening of the operations centre at the heart of a new £1.2bn computer system - planned to monitor every person who enters or leaves the UK - has been delayed by staff training. The National Border Targeting Centre (NBTC), the Manchester-based clearing house for the e-Borders program, was scheduled to open this month, but to allow for staff
10 December 2009 /security /regulation
Back in August I wrote about DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=3190 County Durham police last week put the final nail in the coffin of the Home Office mantra "nothing to hide, nothing to fear", with a clear announcement that DNA and fingerprinting could harm an individual’s career prospects...
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