4436 Results from /regulation
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The corporate culture of growth at any cost during the past decade has exposed fundamental flaws in the way banks conducted their business and in particular how they managed it. As such, the financial crisis has highlighted the need for dramatic changes and a move towards an enterprise-wide approach to risk management. While banks may have had p...
30 March 2009 /regulation /retail
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
Security professionals’ globally are gearing up to be fooled or fool criminal hackers on April 1st. So far this year it is estimated that somewhere between 3 and 12 million computers have been compromised by the “Conficker” worm, also known as “Downup,” “Downadup” and “Kido,” possibly considered the largest known global botnet. Microsoft and other...
26 March 2009 /security /regulation
In a week filled with data breach news, it's refreshing to see Visa's chief risk officer call for collaboration to stop fraud, and I applaud, however, there's something very important missing. Collaborating to share critical information and insights about fraud among "all players in the payment system", as well as government organizations...
25 March 2009 /security /regulation Information Security
Florida can be a risky place. One story on the radio was of a jogger in Miami who went too close to the bushes alongside a mid-city canal and got snapped up by an alligator. Likewise there are stories of golfers on bayou courses who go looking for that lost ball in the undergrowth and end up losing their best Calloway driver in a fight against o...
25 March 2009 /regulation
23 March 2009 /security /regulation
Given the amount of negative press swirling around the financial services industry--and in particular around the banking segment of the industry, it would be great if some of the banks who are not at the center of the storm would step up to the plate and be a little (or even a lot) more visible. The results of a Nielsen IAG survey released yeste...
20 March 2009 /regulation /wholesale Women in Technology
Keith Appleyard IT Consultant at available for hire
From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (as sent by Colin Knox to Private Eye) : "AD1125 In this year sent the King Henry, before Christmas, from Normandy to England, and bade that all the mint-men that were in England should be mutilated in their limbs; that was, that they should lose each of them the right hand, and their testicles beneath. This was...
19 March 2009 /regulation Whatever...
I'm very smart. I'm in the news, I'm on TV, in print, I'm written about constantly in blogs and I'm very very famous. Every day people try to be me and some are very successful at it. I have many many copy cats who one-up me daily. Its not easy being me, but its lots of fun. I don’t have a job. I’m essentially unemployed. However I do have a car
18 March 2009 /security /regulation
Let me explain.. What technology can bring to table? Yesterday I was seeing some of the dashboards for banks. Looking at them, I found that it can’t be a dashboard - all static one. Like a standing car - when somebody just insert key and unlock handle. You can see fuel meter dial gauge indicating the static position. Right now the dashboards exist...
18 March 2009 /payments /regulation
The Hammer of the Gods came down on me. I pissed off Led Zeppelins lawyers. It wasn't intentional, I was just a fan. There wasn't even a term for it when I did it. What was it? Cybersquatting. Cybersquatting is the act of procuring someone elses trademarked brand name online as a dot com or any other US based extension. Cyber squatters squat for ma...
17 March 2009 /security /regulation
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