4231 Results from /regulation
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
Lexis Nexis, which owns ChoicePoint, an information broker I recently blogged about that was hacked in 2005, was just hacked again this week. On Friday, LexisNexis Group notified more than 32,000 people that their information may have been stolen and used in a credit card scam that involved stealing names, birth dates and Social Security numbers ...
08 May 2009 /security /regulation
Social engineering is the act of manipulating people into performing certain actions or divulging confidential information. While similar to a confidence trick or simple fraud, the term typically applies to trickery or deception for the purpose of information gathering, fraud, or computer system access; in most cases the attacker never comes fac...
07 May 2009 /security /regulation
Retired Member
Every day, I get email and snail-mail delivered faithfully, eagerly and hopefully into my mailbox by some organization that has spent time and money with the singular goal of delivering their message to little ol' me. They have either dedicated resources or paid to find my name and my address. Unfortunately, these same resources haven't bothere...
07 May 2009 /regulation /wholesale Women in Technology
Today, large financial institutions have dramatically grown the variety of their products and services. At the same time they have similarly increased the type, number and sophistication of touch points by which customers can access such products and services. The resulting greater complexity has coincided with the so-called ‘third wave’ of tech...
06 May 2009 /regulation
Keith Appleyard IT Consultant at available for hire
With the number of confirmed swine flu cases continuing to rise, a global benchmarking survey of financial institutions has revealed that, although over 70% of firms have a pandemic-specific business continuity programme in place, many may be dangerously out of date. https://www.finextra.com/fullstory.asp?id=19996 30% of those programmes have not ...
06 May 2009 /regulation Whatever...
I recently attended breakfast presentation on testing and quality hosted by Logica. Nothing unusual in that you might think, but this one was as it included an interesting insight from the world of Formula One. Mark Preston – technical guru with time at Arrows, McClaren and Super Aguri - took us through what can and does go wrong in Formula One, wh...
05 May 2009 /regulation Finexpo
Steven Husk CEO at FRSGlobal
As Shakespeare's LORD POLONIUS advises us in Hamlet: "Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry" ‘Bubbles, borrowers and lenders'. Where do the regulators and our government stand in all of this gloom and doom? Our PM Gordon is spreading the word that this re...
05 May 2009 /regulation
The Financial Services Authority has called on UK Financial Services firms to assess their contingency plans in light of the recent outbreak of influenza https://www.finextra.com/fullstory.asp?id=19992 With acknowledgments to SunGuard, here is a useful Nine Steps to Prepare Your Business for a Pandemic 1. Consider the Impact of Missing People Wit
04 May 2009 /regulation Whatever...
Most people confuse privacy issues with security. Further, they don't really want privacy, they want convenience and discounted goods. They think they want security, but they actually want "easy" and free. This study done in London determined people will give up their privacy and security for a chocolate bar. A CEO of a major software c
01 May 2009 /security /regulation
Stephen Wilson Managing Director at Lockstep Consulting
While dissatisfaction with the PCI standards has been simmering for some time, the debate is now boiling over. And not before time. In March, the US House of Reps’ Homeland Security Committee held a hearing as to whether PCI security standards have been effective in reducing cybercrime. The chair, in his opening remarks, suggested empirically tha...
01 May 2009 /regulation
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