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A place to share stuff that isn't at all fintec related but is amusing, absurd or scary.
RBS is reported as saying that all Customer Accounts are back to normal. They may well be from a monetary perspective, but the data still remains corrupt. I now have on my Business Account 3 BACS cr...
It's not often I get to link to Funny or Die on Finextra (well never), but here is Goldman Sachs versus the Anti-Muppet Defamation League.
It's been interesting to see trends emerge for the Finextra apps that we have on the market, which in turn gives us a not-very-scientific insight into the Finextra Readership. Since we launched the ...
Almost 18 Months after the takeover from Odyssey Financial Technologies, Temenos announced to be considering “strategic combination with Misys plc to be effected by way of an all share merger”. Proba...
Despite all the bleating about PCI over the years, I found it to be too weak. With all the focus on Cardholder Data - as being that on the Mag Stripe - namely Cardnumber, Cardholder Name, Expiry Date ...
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...