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Halifax in denial over Web account terminations
News Following a complaint from a ZDNet reader, online bank Halifax has denied it is trying to prevent customers cancelling their Internet trading accounts after a serious security violation was revealed Monday.
[December 2, 1999, 12:20]
Halifax Net share dealing system breached
News The Halifax admitted Monday that a flaw in its online security allowed a customer to gain unauthorised access to its Internet trading accounts on Friday morning. The spokeswoman confirmed the Halifax is doing its utmost to restore the confidence of...
[November 29, 1999, 16:30]
News Burst: Halifax to deliver online fraud reimbursement
News The Halifax bank will respond to growing customer concerns over Internet security by offering antifraud measures and antivirus services to its customers. The bank will offer guaranteed reimbursement against losses incurred through Internet fraud as...
[August 29, 2000, 10:33]
Halifax theft exposes customer mortgage data
News UK high street bank Halifax has admitted stolen documents from one of its employees contained data on 13,000 mortgage customers. According to a spokesman for Halifax: "It would be almost impossible for any fraud to be committed with the information...
[March 27, 2007, 14:52]
Halifax offers online fraud and hacking reassurance
News The Halifax bank has responded to growing concerns over online security Monday by offering antifraud measures and antivirus services to its customers. According to the Halifax, the antivirus software will help protect customers against Trojan horse...
[August 29, 2000, 14:49]
Halifax moves into Internet banking fray
News The Halifax is the latest bank to embrace the Internet with the launch of an online banking and sharedealing service Tuesday. The Halifax says it will invest more than £100m in the venture. The bank also plans an Internet banking service called...
[October 6, 1999, 14:15]
News Burst: Halifax admits online security breach
News The Halifax bank has admitted a flaw in its online security after a customer gained unauthorised access to Internet trading accounts Sunday. The bank immediately pulled the plug on its Internet share dealing system but the incident will provide the...
[November 29, 1999, 15:29]
Compaq secures £16.5m Halifax deal
News Compaq beat IBM and Olivetti to the contract and will supply the Halifax with 12,000 133MHz Pentium-based Deskpro 2000 PCs, and 220 166MHz Pentium-based ProLiant 4500 and 1500 servers. All machines will run under Windows NT, replacing the company...
[December 10, 1996, 9:57]
Halifax and BT announce WAP banking
News On Wednesday, Halifax announced a partnership with BT Cellnet to provide a full range of banking services over mobile phones by the summer. The first services will be via SMS and WAP, with GPRS services rolling out in autumn as Cellnet upgrades its...
[February 17, 2000, 9:21]
Six face sentencing for Internet fraud, ID theft
News According to the NHTCU, Lloyds TSB was hardest hit, losing £315,000 while the Halifax and the Co-operative Bank lost a combined total of £30,000 over a period of two years. In the second half of 2003, Internet banking customers of NatWest, Lloyds...
[November 21, 2003, 10:50]
Exclusive: Egg admits security breach
News Halifax was the victim of a similar security breach last week -- with a customer logging onto someone elses share details. A Halifax spokeswoman claimed its online share dealing system is now safe and is confident the incident has not dented...
[December 1, 1999, 13:26]
Mobile phones let Scottish drivers pay and display
News In other news, UK banking group Halifax Bank of Scotland has ordered 40 million smart cards for its UK customers over the next two years. According to the Halifax Bank of Scotland group, the UK will have an estimated 120 million smart cards in use...
[November 18, 2003, 11:40]
AppLabs Case Study: Intelligent Finance
White Papers Intelligent Finance was launched in 2001 as a division of Halifax plc (now HBOS). AppLabs was initially engaged prior to the launch by Vision Consulting, to provide Test Team Leaders to support the testing phases of this new direct bank...
[January 12, 2008, 0:01]
SAS Data Mining Skills Help Dalhousie University Graduates Succeed
White Papers Since it was founded in 1818, Dalhousie University in Halifax has grown to become one of Canada's leading universities with established, internationally renowned programs of graduate and professional studies.
[July 5, 2006, 0:00]
Weissmann City Profiles
Downloads Cities available: Acapulco Amsterdam Athens Atlanta Auckland Austin Baltimore Bangkok Beijing Beirut Berlin Boston Branson Brussels Budapest Buenos Aires Buffalo Cairo Calgary Cape Town Caracas Charleston, SC Chicago Cleveland Copenhagen Dallas...
[May 5, 2001, 8:00]
Guy Kewney's Diary
News Halifax, I said. It's not on the Gas Board computer, so the Halifax doesn't exist! Slow start. Trudge into office with a question about the PC Direct copy, needed today! Now! The office is empty. Where's all the Editorial staff?
[March 21, 1998, 6:00]
A Year Ago: Egg's online security cracks
News A day after the Halifax admitted to a flaw in its online security, the Internet bank, Egg has been compromised by a customer who gained complete access to another customer's Egg bank account. Egg recently confessed to mailing out credit card...
[November 28, 2000, 7:42]
Exclusive: Egg's online security cracks
News A day after the Halifax admitted to a flaw in its online security, the Internet bank, Egg has been compromised by a customer who gained complete access to another customer's Egg bank account. Egg recently confessed to mailing out credit card...
[November 30, 1999, 16:42]
Bank Enhances In-House Software Development With Technical Experts, Saving ?25,000
White Papers Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) is one of the largest banks in the United Kingdom. Employees at its in-house software development centre urgently wanted to improve the performance of an application used in the Human Resources (HR) department.
[October 11, 2008, 1:01]
Phishers harness Storm worm botnet
News Following a phishing run on Tuesday that attempted to dupe online users of the Halifax building society, F-Secure found that the IP address of the phishing sites was changing "every second or so", a characteristic of a botnet using fast-flux...
[January 10, 2008, 16:55]
