49 Results from 2007, /security
Retired Member
Holiday season is on. And Online users whether using Internet Banking or e-shopping or general net users, just a reminder even assuming most of you already know it. Careful with mails, greetings or seasons blessing esp from unknown source (even if it refers Santa)Be careful for any .exe file downloads Someone may using keystoke logging software a...
20 December 2007 /security Online Banking
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
Rumblings of discontent among Barclay’s customers over the bank’s new PINSentry chip and PIN authentication device for online banking. The device, provided by Dutch vendor Gemalto is used together with the customer's normal debit card and PIN, to authenticate the cardholder’s identity at log in and for making certain payments. PINSentry may have...
19 December 2007 /security
Is it me or does there seem to be a lack of convergence on the subject of security in internet banking these days? From a user perspective I have accounts with ING, Nationwide and Barclays to name but three. I also work with many banks in their back offices trying to make operations both more secure and more efficient (tough job to do both at on...
19 December 2007 /security /regulation Innovation in Financial Services
In the days of virtualization where working mothers and traveling sales-team prefer to use flexi-time and remote jobs profile; Internet is being adopted as a parallel medium of communication, transaction, and social networking. Internet banking is fast gaining momentum across the globe for its convenience and ease of conducting transactions at a
18 December 2007 /security Online Banking
Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia
According to this article yesterday on Computerworld a sophisticated crew of German speaking hackers have conducted a data mining exercise with a difference. They've trolled through the account details generated by a generic widespread trojan to identify corporate and offshore bank accounts, and have then targeted individual banks and corporate cu...
14 December 2007 /security Information Security
I see that financiers have noticed that there's been a 12.4% increase in de-listings of foreign companies on US exchanges. The explanation appears to be either "a pent up demand to leave the US" or "the increasing unattractiveness of the US capital markets". Not only are these symptoms not causes, I'm not sure they're really ...
05 December 2007 /security /regulation Innovation in Financial Services
Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
When I was in university in the early 1990s, I took a class on American Foreign Policy (no laughs please). My professor had worked in the Nixon and Reagan administrations and would not have been embarrassed by being called an old Cold Warrior. On the first day of lectures he stood up in front of the class and said. "I don't know what I am goi...
04 December 2007 /security
What is it about politics and embarrassing metadata? UK readers will be familiar with the row about dodgy political donations that is currently surrounding the Labour party. It was perhaps only a matter of time before metadata gave someone's secrets away - as it has a habit of doing in political rows. Well, it happened this weekend - the Sunday...
03 December 2007 /security /regulation Information Security
The latest government data loss story beggars belief. It does make you wonder what would happen if we were stupid enough to introduce an ID cards scheme. I'm putting my money where my mouth is at www.no2id.net. Why not join me? Entertaining to see the Daily Mail (never one to let the facts get in the way of a good story) are reporting the ENTIRE...
21 November 2007 /security /regulation
That was the phrase used by the shadow chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne on national radio news this morning in reference to the UK government’s plans to introduce a biometric-based national identity scheme. It follows revelations that the computer discs containing the confidential information - including bank account details - of all 25 ...
21 November 2007 /security /retail
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