79 results about this entity
Period: 12 Aug 2005 - 19 Jul 2023
News
A Trojan masquerading as a Mozilla Firefox plugin to steal online bank passwords has been found by Romanian security firm BitDefender.
05 December 2008
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is the financial institution most targeted by phishing fraudsters, according to anti-spam outfit Clearmymail which is reporting a quadrupling in the number of spam attacks aimed at UK Internet users.
07 August 2008
UK high street bank Halifax is facing a lawsuit brought by a customer who claims that fraudsters cloned his chip-based card and withdrew £2100 from his account at ATMs.
07 January 2008
UK high street bank Halifax has become the first financial institution in Europe to carbon label one of its products.
20 December 2007
UK high street bank Halifax has begun issuing contactless debit cards featuring Visa payWave technology to around 25,000 customers in London.
12 November 2007
A CD containing confidential data for around 15,000 Standard Life customers has gone missing while in transit from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) to the insurer's headquarters in Edinburgh.
06 November 2007
The UK's Halifax bank is to introduce 'behavioural targeting' technology from US firm Omniture in an effort to increase sales and conversion rates for online products and marketing campaigns.
27 September 2007
UK bank Halifax has begun rolling out multi-currency ATMs that dispense euro and US dollar bank notes in addition to sterling.
19 September 2007
HSBC is investigating 'out of band' authentication security for online banking - in which unique ID log-in codes are communicated by telephone - as a possible alternative to the two factor card reader programme backed by UK payments association Apacs.
07 September 2007
Customers of UK direct bank Intelligent Finance (IF) were unable to access accounts on Sunday and Monday after hardware installed to increase capacity caused an outage.
31 July 2007
Bank of Scotland (BoS) - part of the UK's Hbos banking group - is notifying more than 60,000 mortgage customers that a computer disc containing their personal information has been lost in the postal system.
04 June 2007
UK banks will begin rolling out plastic credit and debit cards featuring contactless payment technology from either Visa or MasterCard to cardholders in September.
08 May 2007
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