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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Blind security

Comment Don't these people ever use an ATM? Recently I've been flying in and out of the UK on a variety of international carriers including some of the so-called low-cost airlines. Airport procedures have been more or less the same - except at London...

Tags: security, risk, airport, cochrane

[12 Nov 2007]

Leader: Ringing up a profit with mobile phone banking

Leader Other than carting your own ATM around on a forklift, it's pretty hard to get real mobile access to your money at the moment. Some are trying to replicate the ubiquity of the ATM network by letting consumers use one application to access all their...

Tags: mobile

[13 Dec 2005]

Leader: Today's big deals

Leader: Today's big deals

Leader Details of just how she disclosed the number remain sketchy, though clearly we can surmise the wrong-doer in this case didn't just guess the four-digit code or keep hold of the card and then put it in an ATM accidentally.

[18 Apr 2005]

Online security - we must remain vigilant

Online security - we must remain vigilant

Comment Ng Kok Meng used a skimming device, which captures data from a customer's ATM card, to gain illegal access into the account. A recent online theft case highlights the risks of internet banking - and reminds us that security means never letting down...

Tags: bank of america, internet banking, security, online banking

[25 Feb 2005]

BT's new trick: 21CN

Comment The Multi Service Access Network (MSAN) will be able to bring voice, IP, Ethernet, ATM, SDH, ISDN and just about any other fixed telecom technology into the same bit stream. Embracing change, welcoming competition - that can't be BT can it?

Tags: 21cn, voip, bt

[07 Feb 2005]

Devil's Advocate: Can we trust banks?

Devil's Advocate: Can we trust banks?

Comment Maybe large organisations have always been economical with the truth in the way the banks were over ATM cards and 'phantom withdrawals'. Mechanised decision-making, whether through computers or call-centre scripts, is good for many things - but not...

Tags: banks, call centre, chip-and-pin

[03 Aug 2004]

The Bloor Perspective: Easy mobile minutes, corporate compliance and Google's IPO

The Bloor Perspective: Easy mobile minutes, corporate compliance and Google's IPO

Comment LINK Interchange manages the LINK ATM network in the UK. The process is simple - just put your card in an ATM machine and top up appears as an on-screen menu option. This is the world's busiest ATM network, with 40,000 cash machines and over 86...

[10 May 2004]

Devil’s Advocate: You're never alone with a portal

Devil’s Advocate: You're never alone with a portal

Comment In fact, it was to drive dedicated devices like the ATM that microprocessors were developed. Later, the ATM transformed itself into a disguised personal computer. Portal technology married to self service for staff and customers is a great step...

Tags: portal, devil's advocate

[20 Apr 2004]

Leader: Who do you think you are?

Leader: Who do you think you are?

Leader So it was that by the autumn one of the biggest stories, even in mainstream press, became 'phishing' - typically involving badly crafted spam emails from criminals impersonating well-known banks, sent with the intent of harvesting personal details...

[04 Dec 2003]

Biometrics still not ready for business

Comment The Nationwide trialled an iris-scanning cash machine at its Swindon headquarters instead of using bank cards to withdraw money, but the cost was an additional 25 per cent on a normal ATM. The future according to Hollywood would have us believe...

[23 Sep 2003]

Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: 24 hours in 2020

Comment Not to the bank but to the ATM at the supermarket. Specialisation, disintermediation, 24x7 - there's nothing new in these phrases, Peter Cochrane points out. So will 2020 just be like today, only more so?

Tags: 24-hour, peter cochrane's uncommon sense, 2020, disintermediation

[11 Sep 2003]

Why is IP flavour of the month?

Comment They will recognise phrases such as ATM, Frame Relay, quite possibly Ethernet and maybe SNA. Over the years business people have heard about various technologies that they've been told will revolutionise the way their companies communicate.

Tags: vint cerf, cerf, frame, sna

[19 Aug 2003]

IP over everything?

Comment In practice, the former involves finding a method of utilising traditional SDH infrastructure to transport IP using time-honoured protocols such as ATM and Frame Relay. Service providers have a range of technological options but which, with their...

Tags: at&t, atm, equant, ip

[19 Aug 2003]

The silicon.com Weekly Round-Up

Comment Could it be that someone has managed to break the security of the bank's ATM system? Is it possible to fight crime without infringing on the right to free speech? It's a fine line sometimes, but the US authorities seem to have bowled a very big 'no...

Tags: round-up, weekly

[28 Feb 2003]

Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Insecure thinking

Comment One drive had been recovered from an ATM with one year's worth of financial transactions recorded. Every recorded instance of card crime involves the intervention of a human being at the beginning or end of the process - looking over a shoulder at...

[12 Feb 2003]

Start-up of the month: Aleri - from classical music to banking analytics

Comment Aleri's packaged Software Engine absorbs transactional data from a phone call, an ATM transaction or even trading data from a major bank. When someone says they're going to turn a whole sector on its head, greatly improving its efficiency, you...

[25 Jun 2002]

World of sport - and commercial opportunities for vendors

Comment We've also spoken to Avaya, the company charged with networking 20 stadia across Japan and South Korea, using voice over IP and ATM technologies for 15,000 journalists, broadcasters and security staff.

[18 Mar 2002]

IP VPNs - networking for an interconnected world?

Comment But IP VPNs have to provide something more than VPNs based on Frame Relay or ATM. But what do they offer above and beyond infrastructure relying on our old friends Frame Relay and ATM? In other scenarios, Frame and ATM can be equally as useful, yet...

[11 Dec 2001]

MPLS: The icing on the networking cake?

Comment Are we on the verge of a step-change in the quality of networking, a change that will put what we've come to expect from the likes of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), Frame Relay and all-IP to shame?

[28 Nov 2001]

Has Gigabit Ethernet come of age?

Comment Everything is moving towards Ethernet, even ATM," he said. Rufner said although ATM is moving towards new carrier requirements, Ethernet "is starting to make inroads in the MAN as a cost-effective switching layer because of multi protocol label...

[30 Oct 2001]

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