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Soca socking it to the cyber criminals
News Soca also tracked down the gang who tried to transfer the £229m from the Sumitomo Matsui Banking Corporation in London - the UK's largest attempted bank theft. The Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) has revealed some... [14 May 2009]
Financial Management Company Lowers Maintenance Costs Using .NET Technology
White Paper Sumitomo Trust and Banking (STB) is an asset management and information-processing financial institution with operations in Asia, Europe, and the United States. Lately, the company found that its COBOL-based pension... [01 Apr 2007]
Orange inks deal to overhaul investment bank's network
News Global investment bank Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Europe (SMBCE) has signed a deal to gain a secure LAN at its new London HQ. Sumitomo Mitsui hit the headlines last year, when it avoided what... [05 Dec 2006]
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Successfully Integrates Oracle Financial Services Applications Across Its Worldwide Operations to Identify Profit Opportunities and Improve Business Processes
White Paper Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), the world's second largest bank, completed the implementation of Oracle Financial Services Applications across its international operations. In an increasingly competitive... [06 Oct 2006]
Leader: What the security 'stitch-up' should teach us
Leader You only have to look at the near-miss at Sumitomo Mitsui Bank - where spyware almost enabled a £220m robbery - to realise how damaging this could potentially be. You may have seen the news today about the stunt which... [16 Feb 2006]
Proof: Employees don't care about security
News Just last year Japanese bank Sumitomo Mitsui in the City fell victim to a spyware infection which almost ended with the theft of £220m. An experiment carried out within London's square mile has revealed that employees in... [16 Feb 2006]
Oracle made a move on MySQL
News It announced on Monday it raised $18.5m in a third round of funding from Institutional Venture Partners, Intel Capital, Red Hat, SAP Ventures and Sumitomo's Presidio STX investment subsidiary. Though it is increasingly... [16 Feb 2006]
The mafia targets bank insiders
News The attempted theft of £220m from Sumitomo Mitsui Bank earlier this year sent a chilling message rattling through the financial industry - crime has moved on to a more sophisticated level. He told silicon.com: "The risks... [29 Nov 2005]
Businesses still failing on IT security
News Purdham said the rapid growth of spyware is another threat companies must wake up to, especially as it threatens to betray sensitive corporate data - as seen with the attempted robbery of the Sumitomo bank earlier this... [20 Jul 2005]
Beware of the cyber crime boom
News Back in March, it emerged that police had foiled an attempt to steal £220m from Sumitomo Mitsui Bank using keystroke loggers. Security firm Sophos has seen a dramatic rise in the number of viruses, worms and Trojan... [05 Jul 2005]
Ecommerce sites face security crackdown
News Mastercard, Visa and American Express are all involved in the scheme, which is intended to encourage more shoppers to spend online and counter some recent negative publicity relating to the security of data provided online - such as Bank... [20 Apr 2005]
DoCoMo to buy into credit card company?
News According to reports, DoCoMo is planning to buy up a 33.4 per cent stake in the credit card company Sumitomo Mitsui, with a view to bolstering the use of mobiles for making micro-payments. A statement from... [20 Apr 2005]
eBay cybercrime chief tells UK to wise-up
News In the light of the attempted online robbery of Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Bank, Schmidt said it was easier and less risky for criminals to steal small amounts of money from a variety of people than to take a large amount... [07 Apr 2005]
Banks told 'admit you have a fraud problem'
News Last week's foiled £220m Sumitomo heist shows banks are still in the firing line of fraudsters yet too many continue to deny they have a problem with fraud. UK banks are being urged to confront the problem of identity... [23 Mar 2005]
Opinion: Beware of company insiders
Comment When the news of last week's £220 million attempted robbery of Sumitomo Mitsui bank first broke, I was by coincidence on my way to the office of our National Hi-tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) at a secret address, behind a... [21 Mar 2005]
