147 Results from 2014, /security
Uri Rivner CEO and Co-Founder at Refine Intelligence
For the people of Brazil, the semi-final match in the 2014 World Cup was a mesmerizing event. True, the opposition was as fierce as you can get – no one in his right mind wants to play against Germany – but the 200 million people of the host nation had a single vision in their minds, that of their football national team waving the golden cup at th...
12 July 2014 /security Innovation in Financial Services
Pat Carroll Founder/Executive Chairman at ValidSoft
The payments world is all abuzz about the potential of biometrics to solve many of the serious payment security issues we now face. Not only does biometric authentication – be it voice, iris or even Apple’s Touch ID finger print scanner - allow us the ability to finally kill or reduce the role of the dreaded and much maligned password, it opens up...
10 July 2014 /security /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Dan Barnes Writer at Information Corporation
A clash between globalised financial services and domestic governments is looming. Activity by the US authorities particularly – from spying on friendly foreign governments, to aggressively pursuing sanction breakers and tax avoiders domiciled overseas – risks fragmenting globalised industry into regionalised pockets of influence and jurisdiction....
10 July 2014 /security /regulation Future Finance News Analysis
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
If you want to sell a storage device, first back everything up on it with a flash drive, external drive or automated backup service. For Android or iOS, activate the Google Auto Backup service or Apple’s iCloud. Next, wipe the device. No, not with a rag, but wipe out the data, completely. Reformatting the hard drive can still leave data. Hitting ...
02 July 2014 /security
It’s always heart breaking to see how people keep falling to good old fraud techniques, and while the recent wave of Sweetheart Scams carries a clear romantic notion, it’s actually one of the nastiest ploys on the market. “It’s too good to be true” has never been more highlighted than when the tall, handsome foreigner you had a digital relationshi...
30 June 2014 /security Innovation in Financial Services
Retired Member
Earlier this month the Dutch central bank DNB issue a warning to banks across the country about the potential pitfalls of dealing with Bitcoin-related businesses. The issues raised are regularly expressed, with DNB’s concerns founded on the integrity risks posed to banks that involve themselves with Bitcoin and the problems associated with anonymi...
27 June 2014 /security
Criminals do what they do because that’s their nature. Once bad, there’s hardly a chance they can be good. Jeffrey L. Patton, 43, said, “I’ve been scared to death of this day right here,” in reference to being put on trial for two unrelated crimes. So Patton pleaded guilty to the two crimes he was charged with and got four years in prison. The tw...
26 June 2014 /security
Around the second week of April, most of the security websites were inundated with news related to an interesting term called "Heartbleed ". I was intrigued by the term and went on to research further, thinking it might be just another bug in a colony of cyber threats. To my amazement, I found that Heartbleed was one of the biggest vulne...
16 June 2014 /security
Said Tabet Senior Technology Strategist, CTO Office at Dell EMC
Earlier this week, the British Bankers' Association (BBA) called for greater collaboration between UK banking institutions, claiming that Britain's entire financial system is vulnerable to a cyber attack unless there is greater co-operation between the leading banks and law enforcement agencies. The topic of financial services and cybersecurity i...
13 June 2014 /security
No matter what part of the payment industry you’re in, earning and retaining your customer’s trust is paramount. In light of numerous data breaches and even government spying, companies the world over have to work harder than ever to earn their customer’s trust –especially when it comes to protecting their personal data and privacy. This fact was ...
13 June 2014 /security Innovation in Financial Services
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