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.
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Cisco eschews cloud services - for now
Cisco's cloud strategy encompasses pretty much everything under the sun save one - actual cloud services.
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Bank of America cuts services for WikiLeaks
Bank of America has joined the growing list of financial and technology companies that have cut off services to WikiLeaks, a move that comes amid speculation that the whistleblower site is preparing to release information about the bank.
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Despite recession, finance job competition stays strong
Finding qualified candidates for financial services and accounting positions should prove easy with the U.S. unemployment rate near 10 per cent. However, firms have encountered a competitive marketplace as they search for the right employee, according to a new survey.
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MasterCard SecureCode service impacted in attacks over WikiLeaks
The attacks against MasterCard by WikiLeaks supporters that knocked the credit card company's Web site offline today may have caused more problems than previously thought.
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ZeuS-style banking Trojans seen as greatest threat to online banking: Survey
A survey of financial services professionals at 70 banks found more than half considered real-time man-in-the-middle attacks from banking Trojans such as ZeuS and Clampi on compromised customer computers to be the greatest threat to online banking today.
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Anonymous takes down Visa.com in WikiLeaks protest
A loosely organized group of Internet hacktivists took down Visa's website Wednesday, after organizing a similar attack on MasterCard.
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Big telcos aim to replace credit cards with smartphones
Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile have joined forces to build a mobile commercial payment network that will let customers use smartphones as credit cards.
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Gemalto launches credit card with built-in password generator
Smart card vendor Gemalto introduced a new credit card Wednesday that's capable of generating one-time-passwords (OTP) for electronic banking and payment transactions.
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Man pleads guilty to $4.8 million ATM fraud
The general manager of a business partner of Connecticut's Domestic Bank has pleaded guilty to his role in a scheme that siphoned millions from automated teller machines.
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Man pleads guilty to using hack, pump-and-dump botnet
A Chandler, Arizona, man has pleaded guilty to charges related to his role in a pump-and-dump scam that inflated penny stock prices via spam and hacked computers.
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Microsoft's anti-Zeus tool cleans quarter-million PCs
Microsoft said its free malware cleaning tool had scrubbed the money-stealing Zeus bot from nearly 275,000 Windows computers in under a week.
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Zeus botnet gang targets Charles Schwab accounts
Criminals are using a Zeus botnet to pillage Charles Schwab investment accounts, a security researcher said Friday.
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Moneytech finds opportunities in tight banks and credit-hungry SMBs
Despite reports that demand for credit is low amongst SMBs, tight post-GFC banks has lead to a substantial increase in demand for alternative financing options.
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Simms inks IronKey distribution deal
Hardware distributor, Simms International, has signed an agreement with security vendor, IronKey.
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