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Robert Siciliano

The State of Information Security Sucks

The sheer volume of potential targets coupled with the vast amounts of money to be made has captured the attention of the global criminal hacking community. Enterprise networks are becoming hardened a...

20 Feb 2010
A Finextra Member

This screams of media sensationalism

Yes, our data show a correlation between some higher users of social media and identity fraud, yet this story screams of media sensationalism to me. There are just too many variables at play, such as ...

19 Feb 2010
A Finextra Member

Jumping the Queue for Order Flow

A couple of announcements have caught my eye over the past few days. This week saw the launch of a smart routing service called CYCLE from BATS Europe and, last week, I was at a seminar in Stockholm ...

19 Feb 2010
A Finextra Member

Technology and the Enterprise Treasury

Enterprise treasuries are found in multinational companies in which there are high-level demands for the real time visibility of cash and risk. This information needs to be available for both periodic...

18 Feb 2010
Robert Siciliano

Diploma Mills Facilitate Identity Theft

Diploma mills were born along with elearning institutions who are actually legitimate and accredited bodies. Degrees and diplomas issued by diploma mills are frequently used for fraudulent purposes, ...

17 Feb 2010
Robert Siciliano

mCrimes Morph Into mBotnets

Botnets are robot networks of computers connected to the Internet that sit in our homes and offices. A botnet is generally banks of multiple PC’s from the 10’s to 10,000’s to millions. There are no ha...

17 Feb 2010
Elizabeth Lumley

Banks and social media - More substance or more Kool-Aid?

Finextra recently held a live Twitterview with Brett King, banking consultant and author of upcoming book Bank 2.0. During the conversation, King says that online banking will beat branch banking this...

17 Feb 2010
Social Banks
A Finextra Member

Post Bank a natural way to repeal acts of destruction

The call by the Small Business Institute for the creation of a Post Bank to offer basic business services to small enterprises looks like a winner. Research has also shown that individual account hold...

17 Feb 2010
Trevor Jenkins

Cardholder Identification for Credit Cards in Canada, USA

I have been trying to research the requirement for additional cardholder identification for cardholders with UK-issued credit cards using POS terminals in Canada and the USA. I have sometimes been as...

16 Feb 2010
A Finextra Member

Moving forward with EMV

I think the report from the University of Cambridge is very interesting and raises some very valid points, despite the fact that it is quite theoretical and could only work in a specific set of circum...

16 Feb 2010
Elizabeth Lumley

Social media and banks; uneasy bedfellows? The Twitterview

Always one to embrace anything new and shiny, Finextra is embarking on our very first Twitterview. When: Feb. 17, 14:00 GMT Where: Follow @Finextra and @brettking Hashtag: #finxlive Finextra will be...

15 Feb 2010
Social Banks
A Finextra Member

Chip and PIN - not perfect, but the best we have

Cambridge University computer scientists’ discovery of a way to carry out transactions without knowing a card's PIN hit the headlines on Friday; however consumers should not lose faith in credit card ...

15 Feb 2010
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