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TED speaker Juan Enriquez looks beyond the financial crisis at mindboggling science and the arrival of home evolutus. Here's the pitch: "Even as mega-banks topple, Juan Enriquez says the big reb...
Justice secretary Jack Straw is plastered all over the papers this morning after it emerged his hotmail account has been hacked by Nigerian scammers. The crims used the account to e-mail hundreds of ...
Those that are praying Jacques de Larosiere and his team will produce a panacea to address all the shortcomings of Europe’s financial infrastructure today are likely to be disappointed. My sources te...
Willie Sutton, when asked, "Why do you rob banks" he said "Thats where the money is!" Why hack your online bank account? Because thats where the money is! White Hat Hackers (go
"Chase Card Services, the credit card division of JP Morgan Chase & Co. [NYSE:JPM], announced that it recently received a patent from the United States Patent Office for its breakthrough frau...
As the recession bites, more and more of us are turning to personal finance management tools to keep control of dwindling funds. One of the big boy in the US is Intuit with its Quicken Online offerin...
Reuters is reporting that many analysts are sceptical of the desirability as well as the effectiveness of any form of nationalization of US banking sector. A variety of arguments are being offered by...
Having previously written about the impending announcement that EMXCo were signing up clients for their settlement messages, today's press release informs us that the first company to spearhead this n...
Here we go. 2009 is the year of the processor breach. We will see the biggest of the biggest data breaches disclosed. They hacked'em in 2008, we find out about'em in 2009. This one is a bit of a mys
It’s not just the banks that have taken a hammering recently, hedge funds have had more than their fair share too. Tainted by Madoff’s high profile Ponzi scheme and used as a scapegoat for much of the...
A relevant solution to solve this issue is to add an extra layer of security avoiding the capability to "repay" with the same data (card details - static information). Would you accept a sys...
It is difficult to swallow the idea that the media is responsible for the current loss of confidence. Perhaps a deepening might be accredited to media, but I think the worst news came in the form of t...