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BT recently conducted a survey amongst 1000 of its staff in a bid to gauge their attitudes and approaches to online security. What caught my eye about this survey is the simple fact that going online...
Project Oscar, the mobile wallet grouping between Vodafone, O2 and Everything Everywhere, has had the go ahead from the European Commission to develop a single mobile wallet platform hosting cards, co...
The recent findings of the British Retail Consortium’s first e-crime study which estimates that UK retailers lost over £205 million in 2011-2012 due to e-crime caught my eye recently – particularly t...
Experian figures show just why we need EC3 and an industry strategy for countering Cyber Crime Following recent news from Experian that more than 12 million pieces of personal information have been i...
It was interesting to read in the FT's special on 'Cyberwarfare' recently which identifies that pin pad payment terminals pose a security risk for millions of consumers. According to MWR InfoSecurity...
This week two large-scale fraud scams caught my attention. The first scam sees fraudsters using new and improved Zeus and SpyEye malwares to infiltrate people’s computers, enabling them to steal their...
I was interested to hear this week that the US consumer watchdog, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has launched a public website that publishes consumer's complaints about credit cards. Intereste...
We now live in the age dominated by social media networking channels in which people feel compelled to tell the world intimate details of their daily lives. This inevitably leads to a tendency to over...
I took part in a panel debate on the future of mobile banking this week and it was a delight to hear the debate on what mobile banking might shape up to be. It is obvious that mobile banking is still ...
The world is moving faster − the payments world that is. The smartphone has revolutionised the way we live, the way we pay for things and the way we bank. The payments and banking industry has stepped...
The fact that 64 % of respondents cited security concerns as a factor preventing them from migrating wholly to online banking doesn’t come as a surprise to me. Why? Because what we’re hearing from the...
I found the recent study by University of California, Berkley (UCB) on Mobile Payments: Consumer Benefits and New Privacy Concerns an interesting read (see news report here). It found that an overwhel...