4387 Results from /regulation
Retired Member
What is Integrated Data Management?... At a seminar a week or so back, I was asked the somewhat academic question was "What is Integrated Data Management?". Certainly everyone seemed convinced that there would be less "Enterprise Data Management" (EDM) projects in future, given the expense, scope and scale of such projects. The...
22 October 2009 /regulation /wholesale Data Management 101
Stanley Epstein Associate at Citadel Advantage Group
Where has the financial services industry gotten itself to in these past two decades or so? I have just been reading the Financial Services Authority's proposals regarding the reform of the mortgage market in the UK. What on earth has happened to basic lending principles? The FSA speaks of a changed approach to a more "intrusive and intervent...
21 October 2009 /regulation
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
Imagine if someone used your name and image, or the name and logo of a business you own, to create a profile on Facebook, Twitter, or any other social networking website. Then they start posting blogs and sending out links while pretending to be you. They may contact your acquaintances, colleagues, or clients, or they may simply show up when other...
20 October 2009 /security /regulation
See us at the the Identity Theft Protection Blog and the 2009 National Protect Your Identity Week. In order to solve this massive problem, it is absolutely essential that you – the public, corporations, associations and government agencies, all take responsibility and do what is necessary to protect yourself, your clients and your constituents. Id...
18 October 2009 /security /regulation
Does this have any relevance to western 'micro-credit' or consumer credit cards? I notice the default rate heading over 10% for credit cards. This is a quote from a World Bank site discussing microfinance. "Let’s start with the concept of a loan loss rate–the percent of my loan assets that I lose in bad loans each year. As it happens, the maxi...
17 October 2009 /regulation Whatever...
Recently Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Comcast and Earthlink announced thousands of email addresses and their passwords were phished by identity thieves and posted in an online forum. One report suggests the emails phished could be up to a million victims. Researchers parsed the hacked passwords and broke them down into categories based on their level...
16 October 2009 /security /regulation
I make a portion of my living talking about identity theft. Admittedly, I profit from the crime. I don’t steal identities of course, but I get paid because others steal. I’m not FBI, CIA, Secret Service or a cop. But you wouldn’t disparage any of those entities for doing their jobs to protect you from bad guys. I talk about this issue all day, eve...
15 October 2009 /security /regulation
Recent reports abound of consumers email account being phished and American and Egyptian authorities arresting dozens of people in an online fraud crackdown for phishing scams. Its time to revisit the fundamentals of how to prevent phishing. Nobody can do this better than the Anti Phishing Work Group Phishing Defined Phishing is a criminal mech...
14 October 2009 /security /regulation
Really, John, ABS CDO's and CDO's squared were so complex that noone had any hope of understanding them ? and this is proven, in that modeling them on "one of the fastest computers in the world" took three hours ? Please leave the boardroom hyperbole for your next $10,000 wastebasket job, sir. Did Merrills really own a IBM BlueGene, a Cr...
13 October 2009 /regulation
US and Egyptian officials have charged 100 people with orchestrating a phishing scam that robbed a$1.5m from Bank of America and Wells Fargo customers. 53 criminals from CA, NV and NC were named in an indictment. This is the largest ever charged in a cybercrime case. Officials in Egypt nabbed another 47 people. Egyptian criminals phished account nu...
10 October 2009 /security /regulation
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