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Banks still top targets for phishing scams
News The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), a consortium of businesses and law enforcement officials, said on Thursday that 85 percent of all reported phishing attacks during the month of December directly focused on banks and similar companies.
[January 21, 2005, 8:30]
Banks use Facebook despite security concerns
Blog Comment Banks expect to be able to say that they've got the latest and greatest security, your money is safe with us (hah! And it's all the more damaging to the banks for that. @Jake I think this issue is at least as much about perception as reality.
[October 12, 2009, 10:58]
Banks use Facebook despite security concerns
Blog That this is increasingly recognised even in the most locked down workplaces is evidenced by the way that the banks are using such techniques. Talking to Palo Alto Networks' CTO and founder Nir Zuk recently, I was surprised to hear that many banks...
[October 7, 2009, 15:31]
Banks urged to wise up on spyware
Talkback If banks are so worried about spyware etc why do they not use the bootable CD with Linux OS to connect directly to their website. That way if a PC is infected with a virus of spyware it doesn't matter as all the programs run from the CD.
[July 26, 2005, 17:58]
Banks blamed for hobbling UK e-commerce growth
News Banks are holding back UK e-commerce, with many startups having problems getting online transactions processed, a government report has found. The e-commerce@its.best.uk report, published Monday by the government's Performance and Innovation Unit...
[September 16, 1999, 8:40]
Banks 'should give back to open source community'
Talkback Banks employ a lot of highly paid developers and programmers. If banks use more open-source infrastructure software and more applications are developed on it, then open-source will be take-off ! This is good for the open-source community as bank...
[April 26, 2006, 15:03]
Banks put online banking on hold
News Many UK banks are putting a "freeze on technology" through 1999 in order to concentrate on the problem of the millennium bug. This week has seen Virgin Direct and Guardian Direct announcing online financial services and most of the high street...
[February 19, 1999, 11:46]
A Year Ago: Banks' Net moves will hurt poorest, says analyst
News Banks' efforts to encourage use of the Internet instead of the high street to manage their accounts are likely to hurt poorer people, according to one financial analyst. Banks want people to do things as cheaply as possible.
[August 10, 2000, 7:03]
Banks dismissive of 'phishing' losses
News The debate over the threat posed by email online banking scams or "phishing attacks" is heating up, with security experts accusing banks of ignoring danger signs. According to the Anti-Phishing Working Group, the number of phishing attacks carried...
[March 11, 2004, 8:15]
Banks must move fast to embrace mBanking
News Research firm IDC believes that because of the complexity in setting up and running an mBanking system, banks must get up to speed now. There will be at least 270 million mobile phone users in Europe by 2003 -- potentially a massive market -- but...
[June 6, 2001, 8:20]
Banks invest millions in m-banking
News Forget what you might have heard about WAP being dead: banks in Western Europe still see mobile commerce and mobile banking as the future, and are investing millions to make sure they are on the cutting edge.
[October 25, 2000, 7:22]
Banks 'must try harder' on ID theft
News It led to a police investigation and left a series of banks - including Lloyds TSB, Barclays, Woolwich, and HSBC - with a PR nightmare on their hands. Close to 60 percent of US consumers sampled in January 2005 expressed that they were worried...
[July 5, 2005, 11:40]
Banks must pay up for security
Leader Thanks to home PCs, the Web and broadband, banks have been given the chance to revolutionise their business model. Rather than employ an army of well turned-out staff in branch offices across the land, banks now encourage their customers to visit...
[March 9, 2005, 14:00]
Banks and administrators fight over KPNQwest scraps
News The KPNQwest saga hit a new and farcical low on Friday, as the Dutch courts backed the refusal of the banks in the case to hand over cash collected by the administrators expressly to run the network till the end of June.
[June 24, 2002, 8:25]
Banks claim TJX breach twice as bad
Blog A group of banks have alleged that TJX may have lost 96 million credit card details, over twice the 46 million admitted by TJX. An article in the Boston Globe says the group of banks is sueing TJX over the alleged costs of the breach.
[October 25, 2007, 12:08]
Banks set to boost online-banking security
News High-street banks are preparing to increase password protection for their online banking services because of the high proportion of PCs in the UK now infected with malware. He predicted that, in future, banks would try to get around this by sending...
[October 30, 2008, 7:58]
Banks not cashing in on e-payments
News But trends show high street banks will miss out on the e-payment opportunity, as businesses go to specialist suppliers. If this trend continues the conventional banks will fail to cash in on this burgeoning trend.
[June 20, 2002, 14:31]
Banks seeking to gag crypto research
News At risk is the right of a Cambridge research student to include previously published cryptographic research in his PhD thesis, the extent to which banks and other big companies can use the law to keep vulnerabilities in their systems secret (even...
[February 21, 2003, 16:34]
Banks shun offshorers in favour of own operations
News Banks are turning away from outsourcing companies in favour of setting up their own offshore operations, according to two of Europe's biggest banks. Increased regulatory scrutiny, failure of offshorers to deliver and the recent revelations of a...
[March 11, 2009, 10:49]
Banks get relief with IBM WebSphere software
White Papers Retail banks are in a state of transformation all over the world. They must integrate new remote payment systems, digitize process integration and update credit management. Watch this Webcast to see how IBM WebSphere Portal is helping these...
[January 27, 2009, 7:58]
