Online Banking

This community is for discussion of developments in the e-banking world, including mobile banking. This can include all the functional, business, technical, marketing, web site design, security and other related topics of Internet Banking segment, including public websites of the banks and financial institutions across the globe.

Cedric Pariente Stanford Certified Project Manager at EFFI Consultants

How to Crack WiFi Network - Video Tutorial

This is a video on how to hack a wireless network. As mentioned on Lifehacker where I found this video, this is a purely educational post. Be aware that wireless networks are not secure. Lifehacker post http://lifehacker.com/5459822/crack-a-wi+fi-networks-wep-password-with-backtrack-the-fancy-video-version?skyline=true&s=i&autoplay=tr...

30 January 2010 /security

Cedric Pariente Stanford Certified Project Manager at EFFI Consultants

Credit Without a Purpose is Dangerous!

Do you know the Real Definition of Credit ? Credit is a reserve of money granted to you, usually by a bank, that you will have to repay over a predefined period of time, but that you can use immediately. And you are paying an interest in exchange of this service. This money or what you buy with it is NOT YOURS until the loan is fully reimbursed. ...

26 January 2010

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Is fraud in the UK getting better or worse?

Is fraud in the UK getting better or worse? As we enter 2010, the picture of fraud across the UK is somewhat mixed. On one hand we have figures from The UK Cards Association showing card fraud decreasing 23 per cent to £232.8m in the first half of 2009. The reduction in fraud is largely due to the reduction in Card-Not-Present (CNP) fraud (fraud o...

12 January 2010 /security /regulation

Cedric Pariente Stanford Certified Project Manager at EFFI Consultants

Social Suicide 2.0

As a TODO in your 2010 new resolutions, you might want to take control over your internet public image. But the process of "unfriending" a lot of people and/or deleting accounts seems to be a big hurdle? The solution has just arrived http://suicidemachine.org/ They do the job for you! The remove EVERYTHING related to you over the socia...

05 January 2010 /security

Cedric Pariente Stanford Certified Project Manager at EFFI Consultants

MC2009

Merry Christmas 2009 May the end of 2009 be as sweet as 2010 that I hope to be your best year ever

25 December 2009

Uri Rivner CEO and Co-Founder at Refine Intelligence

The Russians Love Their PCs Too

The Russians song by Sting was released in 1985, a year after Tom Clancy’s Hunt for Red October. No one could have guessed that within a couple of years, Perestroika and Glasnost would begin to defreeze the US-Russia relations. The Soviet Union collapse in 1991 marked the end of the 45-years-long cold war, and Tom Clancy had to look for other theme...

18 December 2009 /security

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Happy Birth Day - Online Banking

Our “Online Banking community group” has accomplished 2 years of blogging on 18th Decemeber 2009. Wishing happy anniversary - for every group member. By this time, many blogs have been written on various subjects such as online banking, Mobile banking, Retail Banking, Channels, new generation technologies, payments, Financial scams, security, risk...

18 December 2009 /retail

Uri Rivner CEO and Co-Founder at Refine Intelligence

Cheeky Fraudsters Tap Amazon Cloud

Amazon EC2 is one of the most amazing feats of cloud computing infrastructure in existence. This is the place to go if you need an on-demand, virtually endless capacity for hosting applications. Geeks’ eyes brighten when you mention the name. If something embodies the Cloud, it is probably EC2. And if something embodies the Dark Cloud, it is the ...

09 December 2009 /security

Uri Rivner CEO and Co-Founder at Refine Intelligence

Honor Among Thieves?

Honor among thieves is a fundamental necessity in the cybercrime underground. After all, for crime to succeed in today’s highly specialized fraud supply chain, fraudsters must work together. They must trust each other. But hey, at the end of the day, we talk about crooks. So the report from Security Hack about hackers stealing Phished credentials f...

08 December 2009 /security

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Tougher penalties to stop data breaches?

We all know the statistics; the number of identity fraud victims is growing year-on-year and we all need to be responsible when looking after our personal information. But what happened when personal information is lost, leaked or stolen and it is outside our direct control? Who do we look to blame? In the UK, the Information Commissioner’s Office ...

30 November 2009 /security /regulation