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The old adage that ‘prevention is better than cure’ is especially applicable when it comes to banks’ card fraud detection efforts. The best customer service is of course to prevent fraud from occurrin...
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...
According to blog reports, and reported on BBC online, thousands of hotmail account passwords have obtains as part of a phishing scam and posted on a website. One tech blog estimates that as many as ...
If I were Rupert Murdoch...I'd be in trouble. Some of our Greek readers will no doubt be considering my response many months ago when I was approached to participate in some Greek projects. I answered...
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 iss...
I have a hate relationship with IVRs. I hate the inevitably patronising tone of the voice, the layouts, the fact that many of them have been designed by people who think they have brains the size of ...
Could this be the order? 1. see the big picture - exciting to say the least 2. get the fundament in place - fast before the market is hopelessly fragmented 3. bold steps to migrate (deadlines for unst...
The Debtors/Consumer revolt has begun, Get those retirement pads ready, its going to get hotter in the banking kitchen. CNN story or her acadamy award nomination video at youtube
I was prompted to write a very short piece on McKinsey in response to the premise What Shape Will The Wireless Web Take? My comments may or may not be published so I'll put a few thoughts out here for...
Too much time drinking the XBRL "cool-aid" can seriously damage your health, as can obsessing about the co-existence of ISO 15022 and ISO 20022 message formats, without dealing with today's ...
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...
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 c