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Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
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.
15 April 2010 /security /regulation
Xavier Bellouard Co-founder at Quartet FS
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...
15 April 2010 /regulation
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
09 April 2010 /security /regulation
Naiveté: A lack of sophistication or worldliness. That sums up a lot of people I know. “There’s a sucker born every minute” is a phrase often credited to P.T. Barnum (1810 – 1891), an American showman. It is generally taken to mean that there are (and always will be) a lot of gullible people in the world. Predator: A predator is an organism that fe...
There is a reason why computer users are called “users.” Like crack addicts who are drug users, more is never enough. And when under the influence, people do stupid things. I find myself scanning the Dell catalog like it’s the latest (or any) Victoria Secrets catalog. I’m amazed at how many people I know are online all day long and digitally stone...
Retired Member
Is betting on the Hollywood really any riskier than betting on credit default swaps? Think about it. Imagine you are traveling back in time and the director of Braindead and The Frighteners came to you with an idea to direct a trilogy of three hour length films (yes, 3 hours for each) based on a novel written more than 50 years ago. To make su...
08 April 2010 /regulation Innovation in Financial Services
Medical identity theft occurs when the perpetrator uses your name and in some cases other aspects of your identity, such as insurance information, to obtain medical treatment or medication or to make false claims for treatment or medication. As a result, erroneous or fraudulent entries wind up on your medical records, or sometimes entirely fiction...
08 April 2010 /security /regulation
Albert Gonzalez and his gang of criminal hackers were responsible for data breaches in retailers and payment processors, with some estimates saying they breached over 230 million records combined. Gonzalez, considered a proficient criminal hacker, provided “dumps,” a term which refers to stolen credit card data, to “carders.” “Carders” are the peo...
06 April 2010 /security /regulation
Keith Appleyard IT Consultant at available for hire
Barnet Council reports a data loss affecting about 9,000 Students who were in year 11 across 3 Academic Years from 2006 - 2009 which was stolen in a domestic burglary earlier in March. The computer equipment was encrypted in line with council policies, so cannot be used to access confidential information. But this was not the case with a number of ...
31 March 2010 /security /regulation Whatever...
Fluid Dynamics has a lesson for Payments Industry. When fluid velocity increases, fluid pressure decreases. This scientific principle - Bernoulli Prinicple - is foundational in Fluid Dynamics which lead to inventions and applications in later phases. Since funds can flow, it is fluid. So Fluid Dynamics principles are equally applicable for Paymen
29 March 2010 /payments /regulation Innovation in Financial Services
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