4163 Results from /regulation
Sriram Natarajan Risk Dog at Credit Risk Fraud Cards Professional
Money Laundering - as we know - is one of the most thriving businesses the world over. In these troubled times, it is all the more prevalent with newer players and more creative means cropping up every day. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has come out with an interesting report on money laundering through football. See here http://www.fatf-g...
15 July 2009 /regulation
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
The state of New York, Office of the Attorney General plans to sue the social-networking site Tagged.com for allegedly using deceptive e-mails in order to gain new users. It is alleged that the social-networking service stole the identities of more than 60 million Internet users by sending e-mails to people saying that members of the site had tagg
15 July 2009 /security /regulation
Retired Member
Many of us are familiar with the following chestnut, but for those who are not: A man is walking one afternoon and comes upon a snake writhing in the road, obviously wounded by a passing car. The snake is stunningly beautiful, and as the man admires the snake's metallic blue, yellow and orange scales, the snake slides into unconciousness. The man ...
14 July 2009 /security /regulation
Keith Appleyard IT Consultant at available for hire
I wrote back on 10th June about How to Opt out of the new UK Mobile Phone Directory https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=2942 The controversial service has been overwhelmed by users rushing to go ex-directory The site, which launched last month, now displays a holding page http://www.118800.co.uk/service_suspended.html which reads: &...
13 July 2009 /security /regulation Whatever...
Since the beginning of the presidential campaign, Sarah Palin has used Twitter and Facebook to communicate with the public. Impostors have taken every opportunity to jack her persona, even hacking into her personal email account. Now, hackers and impostors are chiming in on Sarah Palin’s resignation. The Twitter profile for ExGovSarahPalin snags a...
09 July 2009 /security /regulation
The FBI reports a significant jump in mortgage fraud in the previous year and some bad signs for this year. While perhaps not as great as many other frauds going on the results are not promising. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s recently released 2008 Mortgage Fraud Report, mortgage fraud Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) referr...
08 July 2009 /regulation Whatever...
Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
The mainstream media has been discussing this week, the new instructions to the Financial Services Authority from the UK's chancellor of the exchequer Alistair Darling. All of a sudden the goverment and the regulator should now be concered with systemic risk and Darling has issued some changes to the FSA operating proceedures. But this paragraph ...
08 July 2009 /regulation
With increasing sanctions management regulations imposing ever-larger fines and the risk of custodial sentences for CFOs for non-compliance, the issue of sanctions looms large in today’s boardrooms within the banking and financial services community. And the pressure is set to continue: as of 21 November 2009, for example, the advent of the new SWI...
08 July 2009 /security /regulation
SearchSecurity.com reports that researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a reliable method to predict Social Security numbers using information from social networking sites, data brokers, voter registration lists, online white pages and the publicly available Social Security Administration’s Death Master File. Originally, the firs
So, we have an ultra-intelligent guru of programming for the phenomenon of ultra-high frequency trading resorting to "the dog at my homework" defense? "I thought I was uploading open source files." Let's evaluate that statement: Mr. Aleynikov engages in at least 4 uploads of files in the range of 32mb. Mr. Aleynikov decrypts hi...
07 July 2009 /security /regulation
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