1205 Results from 2008
Uri Rivner CEO and Co-Founder at Refine Intelligence
I’ve recently spotted two articles that share a single theme: they basically announce the online fraud fighting world’s equivalent to “A cure to common cold is found!”. The first article is about a certain web payment organisation that will tackle phishers by blocking old browser versions, making sure users will access their accounts via more adva...
24 April 2008 /security Online Banking
Retired Member
The Register is reporting that determined hackers have injected malicious code into pages on supposedly reputable web sites. The compromised pages were attacked via SQL injection - this is typically where content posted from forms or via querystrings in URLs isn't properly checked before it gets near a database with hilarious consequences. It's b...
24 April 2008 /security
Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research
We are already a third of the way through the SEPA year and its time to review where the industry is with this project? The feedback I have had from a number of corporates across the EU is that SEPA has still to make any significant impact on them. Many banks also appear reluctant to give SEPA the major thumbs up so far. So what's going wrong? It ...
24 April 2008 /payments /retail SEPA and European Payments
I wish I'd known it was walk to work day - I would've done just that today, even tho' it would've been a bit of a hike from North Greenwich. Mind you it may have been quicker than the Jublilee line was today. As the web site helpfully mentions - walking is free, a great way to stay healthy and it makes you feel good too. And in the case of London...
24 April 2008 Going green
Retailers can have a Mobile Phone as an Optical Reader capable of reading paper codes/coupons and reading Mobile barcodes - the cost of such a unit can be less than Euros 150. With the right program and application behind the reader it can do a whole lot more than simply reading money off coupons (mobile or paper and paper is going to remain promi...
24 April 2008 /payments /retail
Yeah Uh like the padlock thing? Secure? Way to go. I suppose we'll be safe now. Security is going green. What do I have to learn? Whats new? Oh that's right, it's all secure again now. DOH! So NO PADLOCK? or green padlock? Uh what was that again? Words fail me.
23 April 2008
Sriram Natarajan Risk Dog at Credit Risk Fraud Cards Professional
For all of us who have been tom tomming electronic money, digital payments and mobile payments, this report by the British Retail Consortium is a bucket of cold water splashed on our face! See http://www.brc.org.uk/details04.asp?id=1360 This report actually says that cash usage in UK has gone up and going strong! Reticent consumers; burnt by credit...
23 April 2008 /payments /retail
SWIFT has grown from a simple bank to bank closed payments network into a massively influential organisation covering most financial services and many different financial services providers. This has not been a visionary creation but one that has evolved and adapted to new technological innovations and the expansive plans of its major banking user...
23 April 2008 /payments
Recent research from the ‘Working Smarter, Not Harder’ networking event held by womenintechnology.co.uk and Microsoft highlighted some key problems for women working in IT surrounding work / life balance and flexible working. Although over half (55%) of women that attended felt that they did have a work / life balance, almost all added an “althoug...
23 April 2008 Women in Technology
While I commend Secure Identity Systems on their efforts and encourage ID protection programs, I fail to see much use for a system which merely shouts from the gate saying 'Your identity is gone!' Not even shutting the gate, just telling you too late after the horse has bolted. It may give you the opportunity to minimise the damage, although I'm ...
23 April 2008 /security /retail Whatever...
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