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Robert Siciliano

Identity Theft Rising; Hits Record 10M Americans in 2008

Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Speaker 2/9/09 Number of fraud victims rises in 2008, but average loss per theft falls, according to a recent study. Article Here It should come as no surprise that i

10 Feb 2009
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No Recession In Generosity Among Australians

If the level of generosity and sharing amongst Australians in response to the bushfires is anything to go by, we've really nothing to worry about. Donations of more than $31 million have already been ...

10 Feb 2009
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Global Warming Is Manifesting Itself Quickly

I don't need to convince many Europeans that there is a change in the weather, and what we are experiencing in Australia is certainly enough to convince me. The weather is getting wilder. Sydney went ...

10 Feb 2009
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Old Fashioned Risk In Million Dollar Armoured Car Robbery

Bold thieves wielding shotguns and wearing balaclava's robbed an armoured car refilling ATM's in Sydney of more than $1,000,000. The robbers held a shotgun to the throat of at least one guard as they ...

10 Feb 2009
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Alex Noble

BBC Moneybox on Speech Recognition for banking

I appreciate the BBC Radio's weekly personal finance program 'Moneybox' may not be something that all of my blog readers are aware of, but this week it's been looking at speech recognition and biomet...

09 Feb 2009
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Australia's Bushfires - A Tragedy Of Government Ignorance

The scale of the Australian bushfires was overwhelming and tragic. Such serious loss of life could have been prevented. The fire's fury could be foreseen, and observed in progress, but for a total lac...

09 Feb 2009
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Richard Barr

Lehman Bros. didn't fail?

What? Shouldn't the association with a major failure in the financial markets be enough to disqualify Xavier Rolet as the cheif of the world's leading exchanges? I could be mistaken but I don't think ...

09 Feb 2009
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Selling us short

Is short selling really bad for your investments' health? There’s been plenty of debate about the rights and wrongs of short selling, but while regulators ponder intervening in the CDS market, they se...

09 Feb 2009
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Interchange Fees and whose fraud is it anyway?

The Interchange Fee is part of the Merchant Service Charge (MSC) paid by a card acceptor (merchant) to a card issuer. Some reports state that the Interchange Fee can be 66% - 80% of the MSC and

08 Feb 2009
Transaction Fraud Systems and Analysis
Robert Siciliano

Robby, Do I have a Paypal Account? Back to Basics

Identity Theft Speaker Robert Siciliano www.IDTheftSecurity.com Me Mum calls me last night. Shes asks “Robby, Do I have a Paypal Account?” (Yes, my mom calls me robby) I say “Why do you ask?” Shes sa...

07 Feb 2009
Robert Siciliano

Phexting and I aint got stupid written on my forehead!

Identity Theft Speaker Robert Siciliano www.IDTheftSecurity.com Article here; Text Message Scam Interviewed for this article the victims states “I ain’t got stupid written on my forehead” I’m sure sh

06 Feb 2009
Elton Cane

Reversing the hardware to software trend

It's quite common for hardware manufacturers to expand into also offering software that manages and/or runs on their servers or other devices. But it's far less common to find a large pure-play softwa...

06 Feb 2009
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