The take-up of mobile technology will have a dramatic affect on back-office IT systems, with hidden costs and disruptions possible for companies that do not redesign systems and processes, according to Forrester Research. Businesses are ...
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Casino UK is changing its direction with a new welcome offer.Players will now get more than they bargained for with a new 3-tier Match Bonus offer.This will hopefully kick-start their journey down a route towards higher rewards.Casino UK is ...
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Name:Scott Morrison Age:48 Time with company:10 years;Morrison was the first employee hired Education:Honors degree from Simon Fraser University in Computer Science,with a minor in English literature and a concentration in mathematics ...
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Cybercriminals have found a way to circumvent the multifactor authentication systems used to protect business VPNs,according to security firm Trusteer,which has reported a recent targeted attack on an airport network using this method. ...
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Manganese Bronze, the maker of the iconic black London taxi cab, has reported a £3.9m hole in its accounts caused, it says, by a software fault in its accounting systems. As a result, it has put back the release of its unaudited ...
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The global financial services sector still faces upheaval, five years after the credit crunch decimated its ranks. But how have IT strategies changed in the years since the UK government was forced to nationalise Northern Rock? Five years ...
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A new virus potentially from the same group that developed Stuxnet, Duqu and Flame has been uncovered by anti-virus software vendor Kaspersky Labs. Called 'Gauss', the malware 'spies' on financial transactions, according to the company, ...
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The Federal Reserve Board (FRB) in the US has imposed a monetary penalty of $3.2m against MetLife, claiming that the US underwriter failed to manage its subsidiary bank's mortgage loan servicing and foreclosure processing operations. The ...
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Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) will soon dominate the lighting market. Few (if any) market watchers would disagree with that statement. In fact, analysts at A.T. Kearney predict that LEDs could capture as much as 90% of the lighting market by ...
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Businesses have a unique opportunity steal a march on competitors by introducing genuinely innovative mobile phone applications, analyst group Gartner claimed today. But if they are to succeed in exploiting the next generation of mobile ...
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Swiss banking group UBS has rolled out Oracle's Fusion human resources (HR) application to 65,000 staff in 50 countries across the world. The bank has implemented Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management (HCM) in its software-as-a-service ...
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Huddle co-founder and CEO Alastair Mitchell talks about the simplicity of cloud-based collaboration, the technology that came before, and resurrecting dead content. The application service provider (ASP) model was a buzz in the dot com ...
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Nearly a quarter of the world's banks were hit by security breaches in the past year, a study shows. Top threats include vulnerabilities in mobile technologies and social media, financial fraud and "hacktivist" groups, according to the ...
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NatWest has admitted the outage it suffered on Thursday 26 July was down caused by a hardware failure in one of its datacentres. The error hit customers around 3pm, leaving them with no access to online banking and unable to use debit ...
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Retail chip and PIN devices can be attacked easily,exposing banks,retailers and customers to fraud. Researchers from Basingstoke-based MWR InfoSecurity demonstrated at the 2012 Black Hat conference in Las Vegas that it is possible to ...
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