4467 Results from /regulation
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
Medical identity theft occurs when the perpetrator uses your name and in some cases other aspects of your identity, such as insurance information, to obtain medical treatment or medication or to make false claims for treatment or medication. As a result, erroneous or fraudulent entries wind up on your medical records, or sometimes entirely fiction...
08 April 2010 /security /regulation
Albert Gonzalez and his gang of criminal hackers were responsible for data breaches in retailers and payment processors, with some estimates saying they breached over 230 million records combined. Gonzalez, considered a proficient criminal hacker, provided “dumps,” a term which refers to stolen credit card data, to “carders.” “Carders” are the peo...
06 April 2010 /security /regulation
Keith Appleyard IT Consultant at available for hire
Barnet Council reports a data loss affecting about 9,000 Students who were in year 11 across 3 Academic Years from 2006 - 2009 which was stolen in a domestic burglary earlier in March. The computer equipment was encrypted in line with council policies, so cannot be used to access confidential information. But this was not the case with a number of ...
31 March 2010 /security /regulation Whatever...
Retired Member
Fluid Dynamics has a lesson for Payments Industry. When fluid velocity increases, fluid pressure decreases. This scientific principle - Bernoulli Prinicple - is foundational in Fluid Dynamics which lead to inventions and applications in later phases. Since funds can flow, it is fluid. So Fluid Dynamics principles are equally applicable for Paymen
29 March 2010 /payments /regulation Innovation in Financial Services
Today, copy machines, fax machines and many printers are just like computers; they’re smart and they have hard drives or flash drives and can store data that can be extracted. Peripherals in the olden days, just like when dot-com was a significant part of a person’s stock portfolio, were dumb. Because of the increased demand of networked technolog...
25 March 2010 /security /regulation
I don’t know about you, but high school was a nightmare for me. I spent a lot of my time in the assistant principal’s office for fighting. My taste for GQ style clothing along with slicked back greasy hair made me a target. My forked tongue didn’t help me any either. Not much has changed. In Melrose, Massachusetts a woman was run down by a pack o...
The power of the alerts announcement from Visa and Wells is all about the 'network effect', that dot.com-era label for networks gaining in import as they gain in size and diversity of content. When EBay acquired PayPal, what was overlooked by observers is the network effect of the underlying fraud-analytics and commerce databases, working in tande...
24 March 2010 /payments /regulation
Banking software has been around forever of course, so perhaps you might not find the topic that "sexy", but you may want to take another look at this industry that grows and changes as fast as any market sector out there. I got my start in Financial Services Software while I was working at JPMorgan Chase in the early nineties. I started...
22 March 2010 /payments /regulation
There are few more nuttier earthlings than the Bridezillas. Lovely women who go bonkers within 365 days of a wedding date. I blame the whole thing on Walt Disney. The groom to-be generally wants it over as soon as possible more so because he can’t believe how much it costs. Then the entire wedding industry preys upon the delirious couple and suck...
18 March 2010 /security /regulation
Increasing criminal and terrorist activity, combined with a highly regulated environment, is evidence that financial crime is a persistent, global problem. In banking, a similar story is playing out with sanctioned entities still using banks to illegally transfer money from A to B. Without a doubt, regulation has made a positive impact in the prev...
16 March 2010 /payments /regulation
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