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Article | 26/03/2013 Wells Fargo warns of ongoing DDOS attacks
Wells Fargo warned on Tuesday that its website is being targeted again by a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack.
Article | 4/03/2013 Fujitsu names UniCredit as first European customer for palm-scan authentication
Fujitsu Technology Solutions has named European bank UniCredit as the first major customer for its PalmSecure authentication system, which is on displ...
Article | 9/01/2013 Banks crack down on cyber-based account takeovers
U.S. banks and their customers are doing a better job of protecting themselves against cyberattacks that result in thieves taking over commercial acco...
Article | 9/01/2013 Botnets for hire likely used in attacks against US banks, security firm says
Evidence collected from a website that was recently used to flood U.S. banks with junk traffic suggests that the people behind the ongoing DDoS attack...
Article | 21/12/2012 Stabuniq malware found on servers at U.S. financial institutions
Security researchers from Symantec have identified an information-stealing Trojan program that was used to infect computer servers belonging to variou...
Article | 17/12/2012 New website aims to bypass block on payments to WikiLeaks
A new website, set up by Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and some other civil rights activists, aims to crowdsource donations for WikiLe...
Article | 10/12/2012 Microwave vies with fiber for fast finance transport
In the world of high-frequency trading, where being ahead of the competition by a few milliseconds can mean profits worth millions of dollars, finance...
Article | 3/12/2012 Adyen readies mobile payment service for big retail stores
Dutch payment services company Adyen has developed a service it hopes will allow sales staff at major European retailers to accept card payments via a...
Article | 28/11/2012 BBVA moves to real-time banking
The story "BBVA moves to real-time banking" incorrectly referred to the value of an Accenture contract rather than to the cost of the BBVA project. Th...
Article | 27/11/2012 BBVA moves to real-time banking
BBVA Compass, the U.S. subsidiary of the Madrid-based Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria banking group, is modernizing its core IT banking infrastructure...
Article | 27/11/2012 Credit card blockade of WikiLeaks donations likely to be legal, EU says
A blockade on WikiLeaks payments processor DataCell by Visa, MasterCard and American Express is unlikely to violate E.U. competition rules.
Article | 13/11/2012 Bloomberg opens platform for third-party apps
Bloomberg has launched an app portal that will allow subscribers of its financial information service to access additional third-party functionality, ...
Article | 9/11/2012 NYC corporate partnership seeks fresh financial tech
A partnership of New York City businesses has put out a call for innovative financial technologies.
Article | 9/11/2011 Tata's UK subsidiary gets $2.2 billion BPO order
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has bagged a £1.37 billion (US$2.2 billion) business process outsourcing order from Friends Life, a provider of pensi...
Article | 10/10/2011 Fire at NYSE data center causes temporary disruption
An electrical fire on Sunday at a data center of the New York Stock Exchange in Mahwah, New Jersey, affected communications connectivity to 58 trading...