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Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Go New and Shiny or Wait

Keeping up on the latest advances in technology has always been my thing. I once had a beeper the size of a pack of cigarettes, and a mobile phone bigger than a shoebox. I’m something of a gadget geek and a wannabe innovator. I like new and shiny. . You probably haven’t run across the name Everett Rogers in People Magazine. In 1962, Everett Roger...

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Duncan Ash

Duncan Ash Director of FS Market Development EMEA at Qliktech

Latest stress test announcement: more questions than answers

“The European Union's stress tests on banks this year may be tougher and better organised than last year's, but still fall far short of settling the biggest worries over their health.” This was the conclusion of one of the journalists I spoke to on Friday, following the EBA’s announcement on the scenarios and methodology for the 2011 round of EU-w...

/regulation /retail

Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Home Invasion Suspects Don FBI Gear

In Buffalo New York WBEN reports “Buffalo Police are investigating a home invasion at a Sussex Street home. The male victim told police the suspects accosted him, wearing what appeared to be FBI badges and jackets.” “The victim reported that he was driving down Welker Street at around 8:45 AM, when four or five black males wearing “FBI” gear stop...

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Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

10 Social Media Security Considerations

Social media security issues involve identity theft, brand hijacking, privacy issues, online reputation management, and users’ physical security. Social media provides opportunities for criminals to “friend” their potential victims, creating a false sense of trust they can use against their victims through phishing or other scams. Register your ful...

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Retired Member

Retired Member 

The one word your IT department does not want to hear

Within most companies when you hear the word "growth," it is often implies "success." But that thinking is not universal. To IT department staff, the word "growth" can have a more ominous meaning, especially when applied to data storage. With the results of its recent survey on data growth, User Survey Analysis: Key T...

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Steve Scott

Steve Scott Senior Product Manager, Business Banking at Temenos

Real Time Reconciliation Crucial To Managing Liquidity Risk

It's interesting to hear it said at IPS2011 that performing real time reconciliation is crucial to managing liquidity risk . I would agree with this but for the fact that if the demand is really there then why is it that the necessary data is so hard to come by? Crucial implies that this is must have data, but what are banks doing to ensure tha...

/payments /regulation SWIFT Matters

Sriram Natarajan

Sriram Natarajan Risk Dog at Credit Risk Fraud Cards Professional

Fastest and most responsive to disasters- Scammers!

I do salute the stoic resilence of the Japanese people in the face of disaster. But I think the award for the most responsive and 'quick to market' mob goes to the internet scamsters! Within an hour of the news of the disaster in Japan, invitations to make donations for tsunami relief came into my inbox. In fact, so creative and impressive are thes...

/security /regulation Innovation in Financial Services

Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Dumb Intruder Calls Cops On Homeowner

If I ever strived to be a dumb criminal I’d want to be Timothy James Chapek, 24 years old from Portland, Ore. This cat breaks into a home and jumps in the shower when the woman who lived there came home. The kid locked the bathroom door and called 911. From the 911 call: “I just broke into a house and the owners came home…I think they have guns,” h...

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Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Check Your Password Security

Passwords are the bane of the security community. We are forced to rely on them, while knowing they’re only as secure as our operating systems, which can be compromised by spyware and malware. There are a number of common techniques used to crack passwords. Dictionary attacks: These rely on software that automatically plugs common words into passwo...

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Better planning means better security

The statistics quoted within the Informatica report carried out by the Ponemon Institute present a picture that does not surprise me and rightly emphasises the risks around the use of ‘real’ data. Over the last 15-20 years, the use of such data within the software testing of banking applications has become increasingly prevalent and worryingly reg

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