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A place to share stuff that isn't at all fintec related but is amusing, absurd or scary.
Do you facilitate disruptive environments in order to engage GenY, digital natives? Are you involved in the gamification of the customer experience? Do work for a 'social' business? Will banking as we...
Got a message that I have now written 228 blogs - with 532.835 page views. On average 2.336 each - highest being 8.305 and lowest 897. 166 posts (73% of all) have been viewed over 2.000 and 38 over 3...
Hackers claimed yesterday that they had hacked NATO primary servers including nato.int. Read, this is not the library where 11,000 often amateurish passwords were used by Military, NSA and other perso...
It appears that someone took the side of the underdog when NATO somewhat foolishly chose poor words in a report where 'infiltration & persecution' were the recipe for hurt feelings. Besides the fa...
As reported, this greatly surprises me - apparently placing the Credit Card number within the URL, and thus by changing the URL exposes other Credit Card details within having to go through the Access...
I have been known to mention it. Now it seems pretty hard to refute. Even the CIA can't keep their website up. After Congress, hacktavists have embarrassed the public face of the CIA. See the SMH for ...
Favourite quote of the week from the internet "LulzSec is running around pummelling some of the world’s most powerful organisations into the ground… for laughs! For lulz! For shits and giggles! S...
Recent events have really let the cat out of the bag with all sorts of unknown actors likely to have access to your secure....ha hermm....token. Not just the usual types. Oils aint oils, when it comes...
Yesterday (Wed) we had Sony being not very re-assuring, saying "While there is no evidence that credit card data was taken at this time, we cannot rule out the possibility. If you have provided y...
I recall some 25 years ago being told via e-mail to change the Bank Account that my employers Direct Debits would be credited to from a High Street branch of Lloyds to one in a small local village wit...
I've worked with Epsilon on a few occasions over the years. Hilton Hotels has outsourced all of the processing associated with their HiltonHonors Loyalty program to Epsilon, which includes having your...
In case you didn't notice, people have been doing bad things. Normally one can rise above the riff-raff, and 'that Dictator isn't bothering my children', that corporation 'isn't directly affecting me'...