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At last, the mobile telecom industry has come up with a credible challenge to the banking industry. For many years now, mobile operators and MSPs have been dabbling with financial products and payment...
Thought you'd like to see this snap of my teen daughter seeing if she has what it takes for a career in the financial services industry or any pursuit really. I'm pretty sure she'll do ok. What do you...
The creator of Skype Trojan decided to publish the source code of his program that is able to intercept VOIP communications of Skype. Nice intentions but bad execution He pretends that his first goa
Craigslist scams are in full force. Fox news reports scams targeting online car buyers. The crooks spend about a hundred dollars on a junk car and get a title. Then they steal a similar car and adve
E-mail is so 2001. Prince Obi Matumbe Akumbe knows this and has turned to YouTube and Twitter in his bid to find a kind soul willing to help him transfer $50 million out of Nigeria. Anyone prepared t...
Peer to peer file sharing is a great technology used to share data over peer networks. It’s also great software to get hacked and have your identity stolen. Installing P2P software allows anyone, in
As befitting its name, Zeus – King of Gods - is the most powerful Trojan kit on earth. Some Trojans you cannot buy – take Sinowal, for instance; it’s a commercial grade infrastructure featuring a
A recent TowerGroup report shows that risk management allocation of FSIs' total global IT spending is predicted to rise from 6.5 per cent in 2009 to almost 7 per cent by 2012, pointing towards a bette...
Securities and Futures Chief Executive Martin Wheatley (and former deputy chief executive of the LSE) did a Q&A with the WSJ this week. Where he talks about how Hong Kong tempted him away from ma...
SEPA was originally devised by regulators, primarily for the benefit of financial services consumers in the Eurozone. However, banks have had to bear the burden of the associated implementation costs,...
Computer scientists in Japan say they've developed a way to break the WPA encryption system used in wireless routers in about one minute. How do they do? The attack gives hackers a way to read encryp
Flash-trading, high-frequency trading, algo trading (there will be a test at the end of term) have been the villains of the Summer of 2009 according to various news reports. The scariest scenario pedd...