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Confidence is a powerful force. A lack of confidence can be devastating. Have enough confidence and you can achieve absolutely anything. All financial markets are underpinned by confidence. Currency r...
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...
Every second, 175 fraud attempts take place. Such attempts are no longer about some spotty teenagers having fun - most of the fraud is now committed by well-funded, well-organised (and in some cases -...
Here are some further thoughts on the LinkedIn compromise, following my previous blog post. Over the years I did some unscientific research on LinkedIn. Here’s some unofficial statistics I have on Lin...
The recent LinkedIn accounts compromise in which 6.5 million password hashes were published in the Russian hacker community grabbed a lot of media attention. In a hellish period of publicly known brea...
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 ...
Spammers send unwanted emails or texts that are both annoying and frightening. Most spam messages are useless advertisements selling stuff you don’t need or want. In 1995, 8,069 unique pieces of malwa...
The Eternal Flame is something you’ll probably recognize as the ever burning fire in ancient Greece; but in fact it has deeper roots in the Middle East. The first records of such custom are, interesti...
Go through your smartphone right now. Look at each app and seriously consider whether you need it. If not, delete it. Then, determine which of the free apps are worth upgrading to the paid versions, s...
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...
A “Logic Bomb” isn’t really logical, it’s a virus, designed to take down your corporate network and disable existing systems that may monitor data, protect it, back it up or access it. A logic bomb is...
I was waiting at the British Airways lounge for my connection flight when my eyes caught the cover of a BusinessWeek magazine. “Hey China”, it said, “Stop Stealing Our Stuff!” In the last 2 years the...