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Simon Bower - www.e-crypt.com - Burton-upon-Trent | 23/11/2010 | 4207 views

RANCOUR AND 10M EURO BILL FOLLOWS UBS EMAIL ERROR

Ever clicked send on an email, and instantly regretted it? I think we’ve all been there – but perhaps not to the scale of one UBS employee this week, where a small error has created some rather significant repercussions.Yes, this is the story of a UBS employee who inadvertently sent an email containing financial details of the then clie... Tags: Security, Risk & regulation

Robin Adams - The Logic Group - Fleet | 23/11/2010 | 2889 views

UK Businesses are Falling Victim to the Same Old Scams

Following recent news that more than two-thirds of companies have been hit by data breaches over the past year, the report featured in Computer Weekly is an interesting, if not alarming, confirmation that fraud is on the rise. Although person-present payments have improved security measures due to developments in global security standards like PCI ... Tags: Security, Payments

Nick Jones - CPP Group Plc - York | 22/11/2010 | 3922 views | 3 comments

Why don't we check our credit reports?

We all know about identity fraud and the various ways this can happen, but what about the tools to fight identity fraud? Well, there are industry measures in place to stop people’s identities being used fraudulently like the work of the Dedicated Cheque and Plastic Crime Unit and CIFAS, the Fraud Intelligence Sharing System and the banks use... Tags: Security, Online banking

Steve Brunswick - Thales - Long Crendon | 03/11/2010 | 4035 views | 2 comments

Apple: the 800 pound gorilla of mobile payments

To date, the poor availability of phones with NFC technology has been one of the factors holding back the use of this technology to enable wave-and-pay mobile payments in a shop or peer-to-peer payments by touching phones together. It seemed earlier this year that bridging technologies may provide the kick start needed for contactless payments to r... Tags: Payments

Robin Adams - The Logic Group - Fleet | 01/11/2010 | 3523 views

Working from home, is your office data security compromised?

Key security considerations for home and mobile workers In many cases executive IT and security professionals trust their Information Security departments to provide adequate security to protect employees while operating in their business environment. However it is rare for users to extrapolate this security to a home environment. What does this... Tags: Security, Payments