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.
View ArticleBBVA 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, making it one of the first banks in the U.S. to...
View ArticleBBVA 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. The first sentence of the second paragraph should read:
View ArticleAdyen 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 mobile phone, perhaps allowing them to do without...
View ArticleMicrowave 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 firms are increasingly looking to decades-old...
View ArticleNew 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 WikiLeaks and three other organizations.
View ArticleFinance, utilities legislation to drive IT hiring in 2013: Peoplebank
The IT job market in 2012 was reasonably subdued.
View ArticleStabuniq 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 various U.S. financial institutions.
View ArticleBotnets 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 campaign against U.S. financial institutions --...
View ArticleBanks 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 accounts, according to a survey released by the...
View ArticleDigital Realty 2012 leasing results up 35 per cent from 2011
Datacentre vendor, Digital Realty Trust, has announced its global leasing results for the fourth quarter and full year 2012.
View ArticleAdobe builds on enterprise push
Digital marketing and media solutions vendor, [[xref:http://www.arnnet.com.au/tag/adobe|Adobe|All on Adobe]], is pursuing greater penetration in the enterprise market with its Marketing Cloud solution...
View ArticleFujitsu 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 display at the Cebit trade show in Hanover, Germany,...
View ArticleWells 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.
View ArticleIDC cuts ICT spending forecasts in Australia
Although industry analyst, IDC, finitially forecast ICT market growth in Australia to 2016, it has had a rethink because it claims growth in the economy has been slower than expected and is impacting...
View ArticleHuawei Chairman calls for ‘ecosystem of investment’ to boost Australia-China...
Huawei Australia Chairman, John Lord, has called for the cultivation of a “local ecosystem of investment’ to further boost Australia-China ties.
View ArticleLiberty Reserve indicted for US$6 billion in money laundering
The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted online payment processor Liberty Reserve for laundering US$6 billion in a series of global transactions, which the agency charges may be the largest...
View ArticleBitcoin exchange Mt. Gox requires account verification after Liberty Reserve...
Mt. Gox is requiring all users to verify their accounts in order to make non-bitcoin currency deposits and withdrawals, less than a week after U.S. authorities said they shut down online payment...
View ArticleBYOD decision points: Who pays?
As enterprises implement BYOD initiatives, IT managers have some key decisions to make: who purchases the devices, who pays for data plans and carrier contracts, and how does the company manage a mix...
View ArticleMobile overtakes Web at ING Direct
Online bank, ING Direct, has launched a new mobile app designed to meet the demand of its growing mobile customer base.
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