4169 Results from /regulation
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
More consumers than ever before are buying smartphones. A smartphone is an Internet-enabled mobile phone with the ability to purchase and run applications. Smartphones are generally equipped with voice, data, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS functions. Operating systems include Google’s Android, Apple’s iOS and Windows’ Mobile 7. Most function on a 3G wi...
18 April 2011 /security /regulation
Retired Member
Social media are here to stay. Period. There is no way you can avoid Twitter and Facebook and Linkedin and Foursquare and more and more. Your friends checked-in in a bar and one of them was crowned a Mayor; your @girlfriend bought lettuce; the @person-you-do-not-even-know twitted about a terrible hangover and Lady Gaga released a new single on Fa
14 April 2011 /regulation /retail
This week consumers are receiving messages from trusted companies such as 1-800-Flowers, Chase, Hilton HHonors and others, letting them know that their e-mail addresses have been exposed due to the recent Epsilon data breach. This provides a perfect opportunity for cybercriminals, who may try to take advantage of the breach to send out phishing e...
12 April 2011 /security /regulation
The Federal Trade Commission recently released the list of the most common consumer complaints in 2010. Identity theft topped the list for the eleventh year in a row. The FTC received 1,339,265 in 2010, and 250,854, or 19%, involved identity theft. In second place, there were 144,159 debt collection complaints. For the first time, “imposter scams,...
11 April 2011 /security /regulation
When you compare the cost of various services, you begin to see how much your time is worth. For example, it would take most homeowners a significant chunk of nights and weekends to paint a house themselves, but a professional crew can get it done in a week, for a reasonable price. Recovering from identity theft can take as little as an hour for s...
08 April 2011 /security /regulation
Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven
Ok, so the feedback from Finextra's #finxsm event this week is that we're finally coming to grips with the fact that Social Media isn't going to disappear into the night like some passing fad. Good news! It's interesting though, whenever a major disruptor like social media, the internet, etc has come along, inevitably there are many traditional ma...
08 April 2011 /regulation /retail Finance 2.0
If I send snail mail, I have four worries. One is did other party get it? Second is did he read it. Thirdly did he send me letter back and did I get it. Finally, do I really know that signature I get it is real. Same goes for fax. Still many banks and other organizations do send lot of documents as paper format. They don't see any risks. But when...
07 April 2011 /regulation /retail
There has been a lot of news in the media recently about identity theft and whether identity theft protection services are a necessary purchase. One of the claims is that identity fraud isn’t as big a problem as many organisations allege and therefore products to insure against the crime aren’t necessary. I’m not going to discuss the latter – you c...
07 April 2011 /security /regulation Online Banking
There is a regulatory onslaught approaching from both sides of the Atlantic and Asia, that will have a profound impact on the OTC derivatives market. However, with the Dodd-Frank reform in the US and the deadline for compliance nearing, there is still a significant amount of uncertainty around what the final implementation of the regulation wil
06 April 2011 /regulation
Keith Appleyard IT Consultant at available for hire
I recall some 25 years ago being told via e-mail to change the Bank Account that my employers Direct Debits would be credited to from a High Street branch of Lloyds to one in a small local village with a population of less than 1,000. When I kicked up a stink requesting higher authority (we were talking about £700,000 a week even in those days) at ...
05 April 2011 /security /regulation Whatever...
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