US-based health service and insurance provider Cigna has finalized the acquisition of 51% stake in Finans Emeklilik, Finansbank's insurance subsidiary in Turkey, following a regulatory approval from the Treasury of Turkey in early November. ...
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Cybercriminals are using a new PDF exploit that bypasses the sandbox security features in Adobe Reader X and XI, in order to install banking malware on computers, according to researchers from Russian security firm Group-IB. The zero-day ...
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The government has published its Digital Strategy document this morning,promising to improve online experiences for service users,and move rapidly towards"digital by default"access channels to replace telephone and in-person transactions. ...
The UK government's Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) Energy Efficiency Scheme does not help datacentres become more efficient, according to Adriaan Oosthoek (pictured), vice-president of not-for-profit industry association Data Centre ...
IDG News Service-Security researcher Zoltan Balazs has developed a remote-controlled piece of malware that functions as a browser extension and is capable of modifying Web pages,downloading and executing files,hijacking accounts,bypassing ...
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Anonymous,the loosely affiliated hacker group,has claimed responsibility for a distributed-denial-of-service attack against banking giant HSBC. The attack was launched last night at about 10pm,and took down a number of customer-facing ...
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Anonymous,the loosely affiliated hacker group,has claimed responsibility for a distributed-denial-of-service attack against banking giant HSBC. The attack was launched last night at about 10pm,and took down a number of customer-facing ...
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HSBC has restored its online banking services after a distributed denial of service(DDoS)attack. HSBC said servers had come under a DDoS attack which affected HSBC websites around the world. The DDoS attack on HSBC did not affect any ...
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Bank of Scotland, part of the Lloyds Banking Group, has been fined £4.2m by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for failing to keep accurate records of the mortgage payments of 250,000 Halifax customers. The blunder, which ...
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Bank of Scotland,part of the Lloyds Banking Group,has been finedGBP4.2m by the Financial Services Authority(FSA)for failing to keep accurate records of the mortgage payments of 250,000 Halifax customers. The blunder,which persisted from ...
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IDG News Service - Almost half of IT managers in a survey last month said that they plan to standardize their company's mobile platform on devices running Microsoft operating systems, including smartphone OSes Windows Phone 7.5 and Windows ...
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Taipei, Oct. 15, 2012 )--Premier Sean Chen preliminarily approved yesterday (Oct. 14) the program for Taiwanese businesses returning Taiwan for investments, which calls for the provision of several major incentives for the returning ...
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Taipei,Oct.12,2012--Premier Sean Chen expressed yesterday(Oct.11)that the government will greatly lift the restrictions on foreign investments in Taiwanese industries not only in the manufacturing sector but also in the financial-service ...
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Hong Kong-based Li&Fung Limited,the multinational consumer goods sourcing,distribution,and logistics group,announced it has appointed Ed Lam,MBA,CPA,as Chief Financial Officer in line with expansion of the senior management team to ...
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The number of customers making payments with their mobile phones is estimated to grow to 17 billion transactions in 2013. This compares with 141 million in 2011, according to research from Capgemini, RBS and retail association Efma. ...
Tags: Computer Products, Electronics, Transactions