Tripoint acquires Melbourne-based Platinum Insight
System integrator, Tripoint, has bought Melbourne-based business consultancy outfit, Platinum Insight, for an undisclosed sum.
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Man charged with hiring pump-and-dump spam botnet
A Texas man was charged Monday by the U.S. Department of Justice with helping to inflate the prices of penny stock companies by promoting them with a spam-spewing botnet of hacked computers.
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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 system.
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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 million people. The bank also said its Internet banking service and ATMs would be offline over Japan's upcoming three-day weekend.
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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 consideration for data protection laws, according to an internal report.
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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 deflecting attacks from cybercriminals.
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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, after three weeks of problems since the launch of its new trading platform.
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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 core applications -- the systems were seven years old and often didn't let the back office and the sales staff share information in a timely manner. Furthermore, some of the company's processes were still paper-based.
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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 computers.
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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.
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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.
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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 U.S. will soon be able to use their devices to pay for almost anything -- a candy bar, a subway ride, a parking space, or a bag of groceries.
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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.
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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.
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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 become a data breach?
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