1013 Results from 2011
Anthony Cossey Project Manager at Fixnetix ltd
I am now asking friends and family to keep a spare CD or USB Flash Drive on which to keep a LIVE version of a linux distribution, why do i do this? Well there are a few good reasons even for the most careful of users. If you are not sure what a LIVE CD is then please do check out the excellent article at Wikipedia here http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
09 March 2011 /security Information Security
Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven
In my recent book I posited that I wasn't against branches and that rather than advocating the wholesale closure or departure from branch networks, that I was interested in seeing branch focus/form adapt. The reality is though, the more and more I look at what is wrong with the whole retail banking business in respect to imperative for innovation ...
08 March 2011 /retail Innovation in Financial Services
Alex Noble Account Director at McAfee
For as long as I have worked in financial services IT (and some time before), video has been trumpeted as the "next big thing" for retail financial services but has not taken off as predicted. Yet I wonder if this solution that Bank of Moscow has rolled out and the news week before of Bank of America is piloting video for wealth managem...
08 March 2011 /retail
Roy McPherson
I love the story in today’s Telegraph explaining that the people of Mugardos in North West Spain are encouraging people to find and spend the defunct peseta in local shops. More than 60 shops on the Galician coast have agreed to accept the currency alongside the euro in an effort to boost trade. The only way to change pesetas for euros in Spain is...
08 March 2011
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
What do you do when you are picked up in a cab and the driver suspects your home will be vacant while you are gone? The Manchester Evening News reports “A BUNGLING burglar went to the same ATM more than 50 times – to try and guess the PIN numbers of bank cards he had stolen. He thought he might strike it lucky if he kept on putting in random sets o...
08 March 2011 /security /regulation
Retired Member
Impossible to open a financial magazine or a blog without coming across an article related to “compliance”. It seems that the regulators have been particularly prolific these past few months. Up to a point that with Basel II for example, bank executives are responsible for the implementation of a secure BCP plan. However, can we explain this bunch...
07 March 2011 /regulation
With the dust settling on Reg. E, the regulation that requires U.S. banks and credit unions to get their customers to opt-in for overdraft protection, it looks like banks’ revenue will not fall all that much because a surprisingly high number of customers, particularly habitual offenders, said they needed the facility. Seems that everyone went awa...
07 March 2011 /regulation /sibos Innovation in Financial Services
In July of 2007 on a hot summer night a serial killer was arrested after he broke into a 15-year-old girl’s room in Chelmsford Massachusetts in the middle of the night and tried to rape her. The girl’s father heard her scream and held the masked and gloved Lane in a headlock until police arrived, authorities said. At the victims’ home, the killer...
07 March 2011 /security /regulation
Cloning occurs when hackers scan the airwaves to obtain SIM card information, electronic serial numbers and mobile identification numbers, and then using that data on other phones. Cloning can happen anywhere, anytime that you’re using your phone. The bad guy simply uses an interceptor, hardware, and software to make a phone exactly like yours. A f...
05 March 2011 /security /regulation
Did you know there is a setting on LinkedIn where they will email your entire contact list in your behalf to let everyone know about a new position you have taken with a company? I didnt. Until I got all kinds of “Congratulations” in my inbox. Apparently there is a new setting that by default is left “On” which in fact tells all your contacts that...
04 March 2011 /security /regulation
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