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Retired Member
Interesting item covered by The Register about a huge number of web sites apparently serving up malware. And as yet no one has worked out how they were compromised. This is a really sneaky exploit - when a user requests the home page from the site, a reference to a local javascript file is included dynamically in the page. The name of the file chan...
17 January 2008 /security
I always thought my router and firewall combo with its twinkling green lights was actually on my side in the fight against internet baddies. I may have to rethink this. The Register has an interesting and slightly alarming item on a possible means to compromise home internet routers. It revolves around UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) that is usual...
15 January 2008 /security /regulation
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
Some recent headlines from the past month: Barclays chairman loses £10,000 in ID fraud scam Halifax facing Chip and PIN fraud lawsuit Dutch cops arrest 14 ABN Amro customers as phishing mules Phishing losses hit $3.2. billion in 2007 – Gartner Barclays faces protest over clunky PINSentry authentication Question: Are banks losing the plot – and the ...
11 January 2008 /security /payments Trends in Financial Services
Holiday season is on. And Online users whether using Internet Banking or e-shopping or general net users, just a reminder even assuming most of you already know it. Careful with mails, greetings or seasons blessing esp from unknown source (even if it refers Santa)Be careful for any .exe file downloads Someone may using keystoke logging software a...
20 December 2007 /security Online Banking
Rumblings of discontent among Barclay’s customers over the bank’s new PINSentry chip and PIN authentication device for online banking. The device, provided by Dutch vendor Gemalto is used together with the customer's normal debit card and PIN, to authenticate the cardholder’s identity at log in and for making certain payments. PINSentry may have...
19 December 2007 /security
Is it me or does there seem to be a lack of convergence on the subject of security in internet banking these days? From a user perspective I have accounts with ING, Nationwide and Barclays to name but three. I also work with many banks in their back offices trying to make operations both more secure and more efficient (tough job to do both at on...
19 December 2007 /security /regulation Innovation in Financial Services
In the days of virtualization where working mothers and traveling sales-team prefer to use flexi-time and remote jobs profile; Internet is being adopted as a parallel medium of communication, transaction, and social networking. Internet banking is fast gaining momentum across the globe for its convenience and ease of conducting transactions at a
18 December 2007 /security Online Banking
Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia
According to this article yesterday on Computerworld a sophisticated crew of German speaking hackers have conducted a data mining exercise with a difference. They've trolled through the account details generated by a generic widespread trojan to identify corporate and offshore bank accounts, and have then targeted individual banks and corporate cu...
14 December 2007 /security Information Security
I see that financiers have noticed that there's been a 12.4% increase in de-listings of foreign companies on US exchanges. The explanation appears to be either "a pent up demand to leave the US" or "the increasing unattractiveness of the US capital markets". Not only are these symptoms not causes, I'm not sure they're really ...
05 December 2007 /security /regulation Innovation in Financial Services
Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
When I was in university in the early 1990s, I took a class on American Foreign Policy (no laughs please). My professor had worked in the Nixon and Reagan administrations and would not have been embarrassed by being called an old Cold Warrior. On the first day of lectures he stood up in front of the class and said. "I don't know what I am goi...
04 December 2007 /security
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