Banks, Phishing And A Dereliction Of Responsibility
Online commerce suffers from one major flaw: It’s online. That means we need to use computers (or computer-like devices, such as cellphones). It means we need to use the Internet. Together this is a...
View ArticleThe New Investors For Del.icio.us
Joshua Schachter, the guy behind the excellent del.icio.us social bookmarking service, has provided some details of the investors behind his decision to work del.icio.us full-time: As you may know, I...
View ArticlePhishy Behaviour Down Under
I don’t really need to introduce this piece from Sam Varghese of the Sydney Morning Herald. It touches on a theme I’ve harped on before: How banks still don’t understand phishing and how it has changed...
View ArticlePhishers Force UK Banks To Delay Transfers
Another sign that phishing is taking its toll on the quality of service banks can offer online customers: The Times reports that UK banks are introducing delays in intra-bank payments to try to combat...
View ArticleForward Looking or Tired and Reactionary? Welcome to the Faux Community Site
You’re familiar with the faux blog — a blog launched by a marketing company to look like a grassroots blog to promote a product, but actually maintained by PR drones. Naff is probably the word that...
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Poffertjes and Power
Continuing my search for a place to plug in and work at airports, I was pleasantly surprised to find that HSBC has laid out the red carpet for its Premier account holders, at least at Jakarta’s...
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Another Online Banking Hole
(Update: corrected a few things. You can’t see the person’s bank account number. But you can see anyone’s phone bill, whether or not they’re a customer of that bank.) — Here’s a hole in Internet...
View ArticleHSBC “Rgerts to Onform”
I’m always amazed at how much money companies sink into sparkling advertising and PR, but so little into ensuring the emails their staff send and receive reflect the same sheen. Especially when they...
View ArticleVideo: Curated Media
Me talking (briefly) about the idea of Curated Media at the Media Development Loan Fund shindig
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Why Banks Make It Harder To Play Safe
This just landed in my inbox: more proof, if it were needed, that banks are dumber than a sack of nails when it comes to security. Or they just don’t care: The email comes ostensibly from HSBC’s...
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