4475 Results from /regulation
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
Passwords and forms harass and mock me every day of my life. Everywhere I go there is a big burly bouncer who is the password gatekeeper and he needs a beating. He won’t let me in or by the velvet ropes unless I know the secret code. Most of the time I know what he wants, but because I have so many passwords to remember (last count is 456, but les...
08 October 2009 /security /regulation
Retired Member
Today’s figures from Financial Fraud Action UK are both good news and bad news for UK banks and consumers. The fact that card fraud losses have dropped 23 percent recognises the work that the banking industry in the UK has done to introduce tools such as real time monitoring and blocking of transactions, EMV, or authentication products such as CA...
07 October 2009 /payments /regulation
Whether you realize it or not one of the biggest threats to your personal security is your computer. And the Obama administration is bringing to light the fact that they believe, and you should too, that one of the biggest security threats to national security is also your computer. The message is “Think before you click. Know who’s on the other s...
06 October 2009 /security /regulation
Some indicators suggest that overall bank payment volumes are falling. However, the big banks have continued to see their volumes increase. Some of course have seen massive growth as a result of the mega mergers over the last twelve months. This increase in volumes isn’t going to make it easier to comply with sanctions regulations and some UK bank...
06 October 2009 /payments /regulation
Computerworld reports the House Energy and Commerce Committee passed the Informed P2P User Act, a law that supposedly makes it safer to use peer-to-peer, or P2P, file-sharing software. Yawn. The bill now goes to the House for one more round of approval. If passed, the bill requires developers to explain to users how their files will be made avail...
Wired reports the inspector general of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is investigating a potential data breach affecting 70 million records of U.S. military veterans. The issue involves a defective hard drive the agency sent back to its vendor for repair without first destroying the data. Once the drive was diagnosed and f...
05 October 2009 /security /regulation
Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
Ratings agencies are, of course, of the villains of the credit crunch. They eagerly handed out triple A ratings to dodgy structured products, like a hippie teacher at a nursery who makes sure everyone gets a gold star. However, not everyone sees the likes of S&P, Fitch, Moody's et al in quite the same way. Recently, Barbara Ridpath (who is curr...
01 October 2009 /regulation
A new kind of Trojan horse infiltrates your online bank account, and not only steals your log-in information, but also siphons funds directly out of your account. The virus is known as URLZone, is controlled by servers in the Ukraine, and it determines how much money to steal from a victim’s account depending on the initial balance, all in real t
01 October 2009 /security /regulation
Social media identity theft, Facebook jacking, mCrime with mobile phone hacking and harassing, cyber bullying, and the list goes on. I did a spot on the Tyra Banks Show over a year ago and they keep re-running the episode. Every time the show airs I get emails from victims of high tech harassment. In the show a family from Washington, found that se...
29 September 2009 /security /regulation
A year on from the collapse of Lehmans , we are staring at a distinctly remodelled landscape. The hedge fund sector falls at the extreme end of the scale. Most industry commentators focused on the first iteration of the EC draft legislation for hedge funds, which met with such fierce opposition, that it is currently being amended. However, ther...
29 September 2009 /regulation
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