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Blacklist of 'risky' bank staff to counter insider fraud
News The new database, announced on Wednesday, will list information on employees at financial institutions who were fired because they compromised customer data or knowingly caused financial losses, the group said. [27 Oct 2005]
Identity theft ring affects at least 50 banks
For almost every bank that is listed [in the file], it's possible to get into the person's account," Sites said. As well as passwords for online banking sites, information on credit cards has also been gathered. [08 Aug 2005]
Gartner: $2.75bn lost to card fraud
News He added that "perhaps as many as half" of financial institutions in the US are not protecting customers by checking for this additional data during ATM and debit transactions. Avivah Litan, vice president and research director at Gartner, said in... [03 Aug 2005]
More MEPs demand transparency after patent debacle
Siim Kallas, the vice-president for Administrative Affairs, Audit and Anti-Fraud at the European Commission, recently launched the European Transparency Initiative to increase openness around EU institutions. [19 Jul 2005]
Check21 White Paper
White Paper Through "The Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act", better known as Check 21, the Federal Reserve and financial institutions are modernizing the U.S.payments system - changing the way the checks are processed. [10 Jun 2005]
'Anti-phishing' verbal signatures get thumbs up
News The institutions involved have included banks such as Egg and LloydsTSB. Similarly, cold calls are made to customers where they are again asked to prove they are the name customer on the account - with no similar level of authentication coming the... [12 Jan 2005]
Leader: We have passwords, so why don't banks?
Leader Banks used to be unchallenged and upheld as institutions of authority. We hand over account numbers, passwords, postcode, mother's maiden name and any number of other identifiers to prove who we are. Upon calling customers will be asked for some... [11 Jan 2005]
Benefits of Encryption on the Mainframe
White Paper Financial institutions, healthcare providers and insurance companies store and process large amounts of customer account and patient data. Business runs on the highly sensitive information stored and processed on IBM mainframes. [24 Dec 2004]
Phishing netting more surfers
News The APWG found that the most common fraud-based sites seen during July were fake loan scams, mortgage frauds, online pharmacy frauds, and fake online banking institutions. It was a fraudulent site, but well-meaning people dumped money directly into... [12 Oct 2004]
Phishing - can software stop it?
News Scott Olson, WholeSecurity's senior vice president of marketing, said banks and other financial institutions are one of WholeSecurity's target markets for the product. Phishing starts with a forged email apparently from a legitimate company, such... [17 Aug 2004]
Microsoft hooks up with anti-phishers
News The practice involves sending phony emails to customers of banks and other institutions, asking them to update their personal security information. Phishing has become a significant problem for financial institutions. [22 Jul 2004]
Turkey cracks down on tax dodgers with new e-gov system
News As part of VEDOP-2, Siemens will set up a backup and disaster recovery system; implement the technology for a call centre that tax payers can call for information; integrate all tax offices with the Turkish communications network, GELNET; build an... [05 Jul 2004]
Renegade program stealing passwords at banking sites
News Working through the weekend, the security experts reverse-engineered the program and discovered that it targeted a long list of banks and attempted to steal the account information of those institutions' customers. [30 Jun 2004]
Cheat Sheet: Sarbanes-Oxley
Cheat Sheet Kailash Ambwani, CEO of secure IM provider FaceTime, believes IM is "mission critical" to most major financial institutions but he said: "These guys don't have in place the necessary security, accountability, logging or archiving to make those IM... [10 Jun 2004]
Alarming rise in phishing attacks
News Kay said that he expects the volume of phishing attacks to continue growing and that the focus of phishing attacks has shifted from targeting customer accounts at ecommerce sites to financial institutions. [26 May 2004]
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