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Article | 22/03/2011 Man who stole Goldman Sachs code gets 8-year sentence
A former Goldman Sachs computer programmer has received a stiff prison sentence for stealing source code used in the company's high-frequency trading ...
Article | 18/03/2011 Japan's Mizuho Bank struggles with system failure
Computer system problems at one of Japan's biggest banks continued on Friday, with Mizuho Bank unable to process salary payments for more than half a ...
Article | 10/03/2011 European lawmakers still worried about banking data security
Europe's police force, Europol, has approved requests to send private citizens' banking data to the U.S. Department of Treasury without sufficient con...
Article | 9/03/2011 UK banks report lower online banking and card payment losses
U.K. banks reported sharply lower levels of online banking fraud and counterfeit cards in 2010, a sign the industry may be getting better at deflectin...
Article | 5/03/2011 London Stock Exchange: What really went wrong
The London Stock Exchange has made a U-turn on the system requirements placed on data vendors such as Thomson Reuters, Interactive Data and Bloomberg,...
Article | 1/03/2011 Cross-ocean clouds gain despite millisecond delays
Just over a year ago, Tohru Futami, CIO and managing director at AIG Edison Life Insurance Co. in Japan, knew that his company needed to upgrade its c...
Article | 1/03/2011 Malware ads hit London Stock Exchange Web site
Visitors to the London Stock Exchange's Web site were hit with malicious ads over the weekend, designed to pop up fake security messages on their comp...
Article | 23/02/2011 New bank Trojan employs fresh tricks to steal account data
Cybercriminals in Eastern Europe have begun using a dangerous new malware program to steal from online bank accounts in the U.S.
Article | 5/02/2011 Report: Nasdaq systems were hacked
Federal authorities are investigating a computer intrusion at the company that runs the Nasdaq stock exchange, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday...
Article | 28/01/2011 Some say NFC mobile payments will catch on slow, even with Apple involved
Reports that the next iPhone and iPad could include Near Field Communication (NFC) technology have raised the prospect that many more consumers in the...
Article | 28/01/2011 Apple could disrupt mobile payment industry, analysts say
Apple could cause some serious disruption in the mobile payments space if it enters the field as reported, say analysts.
Article | 28/01/2011 Oracle to release finance data warehouse
Oracle is offering a data warehouse tailored for the needs of the financial services industry, the company announced Thursday.
Article | 13/01/2011 Hacked laptops lead banks to warn of data breaches
Recent data breaches at two banks underscore what's becoming a gnarly problem for companies that handle sensitive information: When does a hacked PC b...
Article | 8/01/2011 Facebook's leaked financials show possible $1B profit in '11
Facebook reportedly generated $1.2 billion in revenue in the first nine months of 2010, according to a document being distributed by Goldman Sachs.
Article | 21/12/2010 Cisco eschews cloud services - for now
Cisco's cloud strategy encompasses pretty much everything under the sun save one - actual cloud services.