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Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Google Hack Whacks Passwords

Code named Gaia after “Greek Goddess of Earth” a Google single sign on password system was hacked in December. The NY Times reports “the intruders do not appear to have stolen passwords of Gmail users, and the company quickly started making significant changes to the security of its networks after the intrusions. But the theft leaves open the poss...

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Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Parents Navigating the Social Media Mess

Children say and do things that make them vulnerable to dangers in the outside world. A parent can parent all day long and do everything possible to protect their kids from themselves, but a child’s persistence to have their way can wear a parent down. It’s a constant fight that makes a parent adopt a philosophy where they “pick their battles.” Gr...

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Atso Andersen

Atso Andersen Head of Corporate Relations at Aalto University

Art of defusing large traders

Hope US authorities have written the script before the play. Skilled but not wise traders made record profits at the cost of others. It was a moral meltdown, all the way. Another Enron, but larger, one could say. Now these traders turn into huge weapons of mass destruction themselves. Middlemen at the heart of global financial flows turned out to ...

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Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Caller ID Spoofing Becoming Illegal

AP reports using false caller ID with the intent of tricking people into revealing personal information or otherwise causing harm would become illegal under legislation that passed the House Wednesday. The legislation would only outlaw the use of spoofing technology when the intent is to deceive and harm the recipient of the call. Legitimate uses...

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Brett King

Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven

Bankers and Regulators Tackle Reform and Innovation

The Asian Banker Summit for 2010 was held over the 19-20th of April in Singapore with record attendance, in what was the 11th annual occurance of the event. With more than 600 bankers in attendance, the conference was not only the largest Summit on record, but ranks as one of the largest banking events in the world now. The summit had the support ...

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Retired Member 

I am not a number - unless I trade 20M bucks a day

As the SEC proposes a new trading system that requires individuals or firms to register and receive a trader identification number if they plan to trade more than $20 million or 2 million shares per day. The aim is to allow better tracking of the activities of individuals and firms. In doing so, the SEC is reinforcing the concept that an client's ...

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Retired Member 

Electronic Reports Management - not as easy as it appears

My excuse for my recent blogging hiatus is that I was kicking off a project (or three) with a new client - a securities firm in Vancouver. Rather than spend time expelling ideas, it was time for me to sit, listen and learn. It seems that deluge of incoming information in one direction stopped too much coming back out in the form of this blog. So n...

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Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Do You Spy on Your Spouse?

Generally in a trusting relationship spying isn’t necessary. I’m sure Sandra Bullock, Kate Gosselin or Tiger Wood’s wife didn’t think they needed to spy on their husbands, until they did. Reckless behavior like that can bring home a very itchy or very deadly disease. One that victimizes the innocent. The fact is humans have a tendency to lie.

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Xavier Bellouard

Xavier Bellouard Co-founder at Quartet FS

Getting the best out of VaR

VaR – a fantastically complex mathematical model for measuring the risk in various portfolios - has received some bad press of late. Many have argued that the recent financial crisis was ultimately a crisis of modern metrics-based risk management, and VaR is a major culprit. While undoubtedly risk modelling, as we know it, needs to evolve to bett...

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Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Need Finextra Community Assistance

I know this is an unorthodox request but I envision it can turn into a cool post in the comments, then a great article. I'm doing a report on international issues of "new account fraud" as it pertains to identity theft. In the US we use a Social Security number as the primary identifier that is used on all applications to obtain new cre

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