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  How to protect online transactions

  The trusty telephone is emerging as one of the key elements in new multifactor authentication schemes designed to protect online banking and other web-based financial transactions from rapidly evolving security threats.

  By Julie Sartain | 07 February, 2012 00:26

  Tags: wireless, two-factor authentication, smartphones, security, networking, industry verticals, finance, consumer electronics, ca, banks

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  Hungarian hacker gets 30 months for extortion plot on Marriott

  A Hungarian hacker who attempted to extort money from Marriott International Inc. by stealing confidential data from its computers and threatening to expose it was sentenced to 30 months in prison.

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 04 February, 2012 08:27

  Tags: security, Marriott International, industry verticals, financial services, finance, Cybercrime and Hacking

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  Researcher traces 'Gameover' malware to maker of Zeus

  The "Gameover" malware that the FBI warned users about earlier this month is a preview of the next version of the even-more-notorious Zeus money-stealing Trojan, a security researcher said today.

  By Gregg Keizer | 24 January, 2012 07:30

  Tags: Malware and Vulnerabilities, industry verticals, financial services, finance, fbi, dell, Cybercrime and Hacking

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  IBM announces tech deals with five African banks

  IBM Wednesday announced the signing of five strategic agreements in the Kenyan financial services sector, which it said are another example of the growing wave of innovation in African banking.

  By Lucas Mearian | 22 December, 2011 02:31

  Tags: servers, Safaricom, industry verticals, IBM, hardware systems, hardware, financial services, finance

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  Court dismisses most breach claims against Heartland by banks

  A U.S. district court in Texas has dismissed all but one of the claims brought by several banks against Heartland Payment Systems over the massive data breach the payment processor disclosed in January 2009 .

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 10 December, 2011 04:40

  Tags: security, privacy, industry verticals, financial services, finance, DRM and Legal Issues

• Banking services aim to help Gen Y manage money

  PNC Financial Services is targeting 18- to 24-year-olds with its Virtual Wallet, a mobile and online banking service that is designed for people who are setting up their first bank accounts. Since the service launched in August 2008, PNC is averaging 200 new accounts per day, says Michael Ley, vice president at PNC.

  By Nancy Gohring | 28 August, 2009 01:35

  Tags: innovation, gen-y, finance

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  How IT could have prevented the financial meltdown

  In the coming weeks the feds and the surviving financial services institutions will have the daunting task of unraveling all the securitized loans and other instruments that are hiding the toxic investments. But does the technology exist to do that? And if so, could it have been used to prevent the bad debt from hitting the fan in the first place?

  By Ephraim Schwartz | 25 September, 2008 09:05

  Tags: business intelligence, finance, industry verticals

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