1205 Results from 2008
Retired Member
I am the first to agree that ID is essential infrastructure for business, government and citizens. I do not agree that it should cost £87 billion to provide it. I did a few back of the envelope calculations assuming: The British Government can do back of the envelope addition, division, multiplication etc It would cost the rest of the EU and wo...
11 April 2008 /security Whatever...
Some interesting numbers The top botnets are capable between them of sending over 100 billion spams per day Less than a million hosts are responsible for the majority of spam Given anywhere from 10% to 60% of all Windows PCs are supposedly infected with some sort of malware (depending who you listen to) you might expect more machines to be spammi...
10 April 2008 /security
Ebay restrains Paypal competitors by banning other payments in it's march towards monopoly. Financial institutions should be concerned that Ebay/Paypal is entering the financial services sector without being required to adhere to the same laws as FIs. The playing field is no longer level when a major global payment player is able to ignore laws de...
10 April 2008 /payments /retail Whatever...
Interesting read by Larry Dignan on the view of a couple of Gartner analysts. Perhaps I should become an analyst - I could have said much of this - in fact I suspect anyone could have told you Windows needs to be more secure, less monolithic, easier to use and have a proper file system that doesn't need defragging. Still worth a read tho'.
10 April 2008
Alex Noble Account Director at McAfee
Not the best news from the Daily Telegraph and Finextra, but perhaps one of the first signs of the credit crunch hitting the call centres of UK financial services firms. I'd wondered in January this year if trends the call centre job market were a warning sign that things were getting much tougher ("Are Onshore call centre jobs always goo...
09 April 2008 /retail
Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia
This is one of the interesting topics that came up for debate at a risk event I attended yesterday organised by the CASS Business School in London and the Capco Institute. The recent sub-prime and liquidity crisis has prompted many commentators to look at the role of investment banking remuneration and management structures in building what Fortune...
09 April 2008 /wholesale Trends in Financial Services
Vizuo XL Sports Vision Enhancement is a dietary supplement that claims to improve the agility, coordination and reaction speed of athletes which is now being used by Wall Street traders to help execute trading decisions more quickly, according to the makers of the product, Natural Athletic Nutrition. In a company statement, Will Horan, president ...
09 April 2008 /wholesale
Sriram Natarajan Risk Dog at Credit Risk Fraud Cards Professional
Going by the events of the 10 days, it looks like Lady Subprime who has been grabbing all our attention has serious competition. The 'World Food Crisis' threatens to take us back to the basics and make us forget all about CDOs, Ninja loans, mortgage, etc. Many countries like India, China, Philippines, Thailand and most of Asia have taken extreme m...
09 April 2008 /regulation /retail
Microsoft and some of the other big internet players have realised that the internet will stall without identity and trust. Web 2.0 or whatever they call it this week, is just like the real world. Linden Labs 'get a life' stalled pretty quickly without it and they had to go to IBM to try and help them fix it. Linden's problem wasn't all ID, there ...
09 April 2008 /regulation Information Security
George Soros has 'come out of retirement' albeit to launch his new book Credit Crisis 2008 and what it means. I haven't had time to read it yet so I'll go by his spoken words. Recent statements by Mr Soros on market transparency and market dynamics give food for thought. Perhaps if he could have given a little earlier warning of what was to come ...
09 April 2008 /regulation /wholesale Whatever...
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