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UK Banks Failing The Security Challenge
News That is the finding of a study published on Friday that tested 18 UK online banks and found that none were providing customers with supplementary authentication tools on top of usernames and passwords.
[April 15, 2005, 13:05]
UK Banks In Talks To Tighten Security
Talkback UK banks are useless, look how long they have taken to adopt chip & pin, something used abroad now for years. Yet my bank, Barclays is just like all the other UK banks and refuses to take such measures.
[March 10, 2005, 17:42]
UK Banks In Talks To Tighten Security
News UK high street banks may soon tighten their security in a bid to protect customers from identity theft. Security company RSA revealed on Thursday that it has been in discussions with all of the major UK banks about providing them with better...
[March 10, 2005, 13:50]
UK Banks Trailing Europe In Cyberspace
News UK banks have come under fire from e-business firm Netlife for failing to take advantage of online banking at the risk of losing out to foreign competitors. Foreign banks are capitalising on the UK banks' hesitation and moving in on the UK market...
[August 20, 1999, 11:40]
News Burst: Banks Holding Back UK E-commerce
News The e-commerce@its.best.uk report published Monday by government think-tank the Performance and Innovation Unit recommends an inquiry into the banks' role in online transactions. Full story to follow.
[September 15, 1999, 10:10]
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]
UK Banks Deny Planning Database Of Sacked Staff
News The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council recommended earlier this month that banks introduce multiple-factor authentication by the end of 2006, in an attempt to fight phishing. But speaking to ZDNet UK on Monday, the BBA insisted it...
[November 1, 2005, 15:45]
Phishing Attacks Unleashed On UK Banks
News Leading UK banks have been targeted by online criminals who used Storm botnets to unleash phishing attacks. UK financial institutions were the second most targeted in the world last month, accounting for 15 percent of global banking brands targeted...
[February 18, 2008, 7:34]
UK Banks Trial 'smart Chip' Credit Cards
News Major retailers, banks and consumers are today beginning a trial of credit and debit cards that will use secure chip technology to tackle the UK's annual £425m card fraud bill. We're learning valuable lessons in Northampton for the national rollout...
[May 20, 2003, 11:12]
UK Banks Failing The Security Challenge
Talkback Hsbc should have done a charge back and reversed any charges, that's how we do it. Ken you must have gone across to the wrong person or you may have argued and not explained, even then they should have guided.
[September 25, 2006, 12:23]
UK Banks Failing The Security Challenge
Talkback It's not the hackers that are causing all of the misery in the online consumer banking circle, it's the PIRATE banks themselves. My CAHOOT account accepted, 12 small online transactions, all on the same day (though they were made at different times).
[April 20, 2005, 0:08]
UK Banks Failing The Security Challenge
Talkback These tight arse banks are to blame, record profits into Billions this year and they still squabble trying to find cheaper alternatives to the enevitable, pathetic. As I posted before in the last link it's all about Biometrics, this...
[April 15, 2005, 19:20]
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]
Lords Probes Online Security Risks
News UK banks make every effort to combat data theft, but to a certain extent their hands are tied as it is the customer who is often targeted in data-theft attacks, APACS' spokeswoman Sandra Quinn, who also gave evidence at the investigation, told...
[December 14, 2006, 16:29]
'Archaic' IT Prevents Banks Selling To Females
News IT systems at UK banks are too "archaic" to target financial products to the lucrative female market, according to a recent study on banking from Accenture. Miller said UK banks could create sizeable sale opportunities with women if the...
[April 12, 2007, 15:45]
IT Jobs To Go At Barclays
Talkback When will UK Companies, Banks, Corporations learn? I'm sure most banks do not have enough cash to allow mass withdrawals as their have been feeding the Directors with millions of pounds for too many years.
[September 1, 2005, 21:32]
Online Banks Plan Face-recognition Trials
News Internet banks in the UK and Europe are set to trial facial recognition technology in the New Year that will authenticate customers from their home PC instead of passwords or PIN numbers. The trials are being run by facial biometric firm...
[December 12, 2003, 8:45]
Ballmer: Innovation Key To Microsoft Success
Talkback In the UK nearly all banks will load online statements into MS Money but only THREE will operate with Inuit's Quicken - which was far more popular here. Last year Intuit withdrew support for Quicken from the UK probably, one suspects, because of...
[May 9, 2006, 11:59]
Securicor To Offer Anonymous Shopping Online
News UK Net shoppers are to be offered a high-security anonymous shopping service courtesy of Securicor, a company better known for securing banks in the real world. Securicor delivers £1bn to banks each day, and says that its Internet venture will...
[November 28, 2000, 12:40]
Roundup: UK Online Banking Security Crisis
News In their eagerness to cash in on the UK's dot-com boom, banks have rushed to get Internet services up and running -- often at the expense of security. Online banks under legal scrutiny Fear and confusion handicaps UK e-commerce
[August 11, 2000, 17:00]
