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Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Recession Turns IT Workers Into Hackers

What a nasty headline for an article. From ABCnews.com the journalist roasts IT professionals on a spit. And the comments were all inspiring. As the recession rears its ugly head, disgruntled ex employees are in the best position to drop a bomb in the companies network or suck all the data out with a few terabyte drives. A recent study by McAfee a

/security /regulation

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Restoration of Trust

For those of you who didn't sit in on Cohn & Wolfe's recent gathering to discuss the state of (dis)trust in financial institutions, I'll give you a quick rundown of their conclusions, which won't be any surprise to readers of my blogs. In a nutshell: Accept that trust has declined significantly and that consumers won't be pleased if you just go...

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Stimulus To The Heart - Boss writes to employees

This is good. It was sent to me by a close friend. It has been around a little but given the US employment figures is so true and such a WAKE UP call to Brown, Obama, Rudd and so many other world leaders it has to be read. A Boss Who Tells It like It Is Date: 4 February 2009 To All My Valued Employees, There have been some rumblings around the o...

Finance 2.0

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Barclays and Orange Team Up For Some Cheap Spin

Hardly mobile transactions. No different than sticking a chip to your shoe and waving your number 10's at the reader. While it is nice cheap spin it really isn't mobile, you need a reader plugged in somewhere for a start. I can understand Barclays wanting to leverage all that hardware and Chip and PIN infrastructure they shelled out for. I watch, w...

/payments Innovation in Financial Services

Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Neighbor Identity Thieves From Hell

I have neighbors from hell. They do everything possible to make my life miserable. And the more I talk about my awful neighbors, I find out that everyone has a neighbor they cant stand. Its everywhere. But some neighbors are much much worse. Here a local neighborhood was terrorized by a drug addicted mom and dad who had a penchant for technology

/security /regulation

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University with a difference

If you want to delve into the technology of the future, Singularity University may just be the place for you. Backed by Google and Nasa, the school is headed by Ray Kurzweil, an inventor / scientist / futuregazer, who believes that computers will become more intelligent than humans and who plans to live forever. The institution will offer cour

Women in Technology

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Where were the shareholders?

Who’s to blame for the destruction of bank shareholder equity? Those nasty bankers, with their eye-watering bonus plans? The regulators, who didn’t spot the bubble when it was blocking out the whole sky? Those self-serving politicians who oversee the regulators and maintain the health of the economic system that the bankers feed in? What about the ...

/regulation Finexpo

Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Standard feature in any e-bank..

By now it should be clear that any e-bank for consumers should receive e-invoices for one-click approval. Before that the service is just a typewriter - to fill in lots of details and lenghty reference numbers. Salary/pension/direct debit advices etc statements should also be just one click away from the credit transaction. Any SME-e-banking sho...

/payments Transaction Banking

Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Take the easy way - the only way

Take the easy way - the only way There is still some debate going on in relation to the implementation of easier VAT-rules for invoicing in EU. It is difficult to see any valid counter-arguments to equal-treatment implementation (no additional regulatory demands on e-invoices) especially as: 1. move from paper to e-invoices improves auditability d...

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Do Some Real Good With 75 Billion

If the Government is going to spray £75 billion quids' worth of petrol on the embers of the economy, they could at least do it in a way that stands the best chance of achieving something. Here's an idea. Offer people the chance to sell a stake of up to 50% or £75k, in their house, whichever is the smaller. This can only go towards reducing their ...

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