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Robert Siciliano

Crimeware: Do It Yourself Criminal Hacking

For $400-$700 you too can be a criminal hacker. Phishing hacking and spoofing software has been around for a few years. Heres what may be an example. The ease and availability of this good for nothin...

26 Jan 2010
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Drawing internal buy in for improved Risk management

After my latest posts about risk management (identity management basics and getting the best out of your data) I was asked a great question I think about every day: it's great to have a methodology a...

25 Jan 2010
Robert Siciliano

Raoul Chiesa: UN Interregional Crime Research Inst.

In my quest to learn more about what makes a criminal hacker tick, I came across Mr Chiesa when he commented on a blog post I wrote “How I Wasted 4 Hours with a Criminal Hacker”. He warned me I was t...

25 Jan 2010
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Mobile payments - a tale of princes, laws and treasures

In the previous post we've looked at mobile payments in a glance, why there's a huge chance today and what are the biggest challenges. In this post I will start diving deeper into them, and suggest a...

25 Jan 2010
Innovation in Financial Services
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Blippy as a purchase comparison tool

Re: Pimp my payment tweets: Blippy opens with $1.6m funding I had the same idea initially but I found useful reading an article on cnet: Blippy launches the Twitter of personal finance. "It wil...

24 Jan 2010
Robert Siciliano

10 Business Identity Theft Risks in 2010

Advancements in technology over the past decade have created a tremendous amount of opportunity for the savvy businessperson. Whether it’s mobility, streamlined processes, marketing, or the ability to...

23 Jan 2010
Bo Harald

Innovations do not come from outer space

Innovations do not come from outer space - technology often comes - at least from space. There is a long way for new technology to become an invention, then give birth to a business idea which has th...

23 Jan 2010
Innovation in Financial Services
Stephen Wilson

Don't be so cynical about privacy

Reports of the death of privacy abound, but they're premature. There are certainly those who, on the sly, would seek its demise, for privacy tends to get in their way. Like politicians on a post 9-11

23 Jan 2010
Steve Dance

Key themes for risk management in 2010

Every year brings it’s challenges - although I think it's fair to say that we enter 2010 with perhaps slightly more optimism than 2009. Nevertheless, economic trends, political events, responses to

22 Jan 2010
Ainsley Ward

European Union can see into the future...

Just tracking a press release on the Europa portal and saw that they are releasing press releases in the future... The link takes you to a press release on the Spanish Presidency site that will be pub...

22 Jan 2010
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A Debit Card Development that Could Cost Us A Packet

I saw an interesting article in the Daily Telegraph the other day, which suggested that the Authorities are considering adding connected lender liability to debit card purchases. If this gains tracti...

22 Jan 2010
Transaction Banking
Dirk Kinvig

Show us your tweets!

We've added another piece of functionality to the Finextra Community Portal - which is great news if you tweet and want your Network to know about it! We now offer the ability to display your 5 most r...

22 Jan 2010
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