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Innovative as hell!!! Now everyone in the prepaid industry needs to hold their breath and see if things go full circle and crooks start paying for guns with prepaid cards! Compliance ain't going to be...
Banks are trying to modernize thier systems by rolling out newer programmes or business changes and considering business services with SOA. By SOA, whether we talk about creating web-services or intro...
You might want to think twice before laying off any IT administrators because it appears they can, and more importantly will, walk away with all your company secrets. A survey from Cyber Ark has foun...
The daughter of a friend has an Ebay account. Yes I know, but she was selling a few of grandads unwanted treasures. As a student she works part time and is saving for an o/s trip. In Ebay's payment pr...
I have been reading the news items on the volume of counterfeit notes surfacing in India. It looks like more than half a billion dollars worth of fake rupees are circulating around the country. The ba...
Private computers around the world are being infected by malware on a daily basis. Some immediately wear a glazed expression and succumb to the will of their new master – a botnet operator. Others suf...
Hardly surprising that there is ever more information emerging about consumer details under 'lost or found' - either lost (in transit, on cds, laptops, etc) or found (on items which have been sold, du...
It has emerged that personal information belonging to thousand's of council tax payers has been found on a computer that was sold on eBay for just £6.99. According to a Daily Mail report, thousands o...
Despite incurring massive losses from the credit crunch and its rogue trading scandal, French banking group Société Générale is bucking industry trends by launching a campaign to recruit around 20,000...
As shocking as the security blunder reported in yesterday's Daily Telegraph was, organisations would do well not to dismiss it as a one-off blunder. Studies conducted by BT and the University of Glam
UK tabloid The Sun is reporting the story of a disgruntled Lloyds TSB customer who changed his phone and Web banking password to 'Lloyds is Pants', only for a member of staff at the high street bank ...
NASA are busily downplaying news that laptops aboard the International Space Station were infected with a worm which steals user details for online games. It's not clear how the infection occurred but...