Since the big headline fines of Standard Chartered and HSBC for money laundering last year, there have been a lot of things rumbling in the background. In particular, the backlash from such activity has been quite notable, with HSBC throwing money service providers off their payments network last November and Barclays doing the same more recently….
Another major focal point of the debate last week was around information security, something that I presented around in-depth. My tenet is that banks should place themselves firmly at the heart of information security and offer customers a secure data vault. The bankers' reaction to this is: doesn’t that make us a target for hackers,…
Just gave a presentation at the EFMA Conference this week on online insecurity, exacerbated by mobile hacktivists. I'm quite pleased with it, as it's newly refreshed material, so here it is. Efma, no one is safe, 290513 from Chris Skinner There is a sound file recording which gives you the presentation speech to go with the…
We were privileged to host Tony Sales last week. Tony is Britain’s Greatest Fraudster, according to the Sun … … stealing over £30 million in a lengthy criminal spree of robbing cards and retailers of goods and services. Easily done, as it turned out. And you can see why when you listen to this phone…
We were privileged to host Tony Sales last week. Tony is Britain’s Greatest Fraudster, according to the Sun … … stealing over £30 million in a lengthy criminal spree of robbing cards and retailers of goods and services. Easily done, as it turned out. And you can see why when you listen to this phone…
I was wondering what to blog about today, as it’s grey and cold and wet and miserable and … then I realised, I should blog about Russia. Here in London, we’ve gradually seen a takeover of some of our key financial and national assets by billionaires from the former Soviet Union states. Some of these…
I’ve blogged often about the issues of identity, passwords, lack of security and the whole gamut of how mobile internet combined with social media changes everything. Now it’s hit the mainstream media when British Airways magazine has its main front page talking about cybercrime. The first line gives away the rhythm of the article: “How…
