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Sonic The Hedgehog Wanted for Attempted Bank Robbery!
With Sega recently announcing that they were withdrawing from the world of arcade gaming, it did seem that the house of Sonic the Hedgehog had possibly fallen on some hard times. Just how bad are things at Sega though? Well, following a report via Kotaku, their mascot was recently spotted…
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JP Morgan Creates First Bank Backed Cryptocurrency
JP Morgan Create Cryptocurrency After the boom of Bitcoin in 2017 and the collapse in 2018, you would have thought that as far as cryptocurrencies go, the ‘professional finance’ jury was still out on whether they would represent a viable form of money in the 21st century. It seems, however,…
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UK Banks Told To Reveal Meltdown Plans
UK Banks Are Told To Reveal Their Meltdown Contingency Plans With cybersecurity becoming a greater necessity as we further devote our society online, one of the highest priorities and likely targets will be banks. With many banks now allowing for online access to accounts, there is always the risk of attack.…
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London Council Asked For Customer Bank Details By Email
London Council Sent Emails Demanding Customers Bank Details By Return I’d like to think that these days most people are pretty savvy that if you receive an e-mail asking you for your bank details its usually a scam. There are, after all, a lot of people out there who would…
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TSB Online Banking Is Back but Not For Everyone Yet
TSB Online Banking is back, but not for everyone Earlier this week while my wife attempted to do her online banking she told me how she wasn’t able to access her account. At the time I thought it was unusual, but thought that their servers might have just been temporarily…
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Lloyds Bank Scam Texts Are On The Increase
Scam text messages claiming to be from Lloyds Bank are on the rise I daresay that anyone reading this has likely received some form of scam communication. I would think anyone with a free e-mail address almost certainly has. Like the Nigerian Prince scandals which hit hard in the 90’s,…
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TSB Customers Reporting Online Problems
TSB online banking is off-line due to errors These days many of us choose to do our banking online. That is in no small part due to the fact that most branches these days don’t even bother having people behind a desk anymore. Instead, you’re greeted with a row of ‘personal…
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Amazon Reportedly Investigating Starting A Banking Business
Amazon Looking Into Bank When it comes to online retailers, I think it’s pretty safe to say that Amazon is the biggest by a country mile. Over recent years though the company has been keen to diversify its brand, as all good businesses should. As such it has opened a…
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New Digital Cards To Help Banks Combat Online Fraud
Banks in the UK could soon be rolling out a new type of card, which would majorly reduce cases of online fraud. This new type of card would see the 3 digit security number on the reverse of the card replaced by a randomly generated number which changes every 20…
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ATMs Go Contactless and Cardless
Technology evolves, it changes over time to make things easier for its users and quicker for their owners to adapt. Recently people have changed how they access their money, from the paper notes of cash to the plastic chip and pin systems that every country seems to crave now. The…
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Wearable Technology Could Be Revealing Your PIN to Everyone!
When it comes to technology, wearable technology is the next big thing, offerings users the ability to enjoy their phones without them ever leaving their pockets. If a generic wearable isn’t enough for you, sport based wearables often let you measure everything from heart rate to the distance your morning jog…
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Third Hack Linked To SWIFT Network Costs $10 Million
In this day and age, people like to know that their bank is keeping their money safe. Sadly in this day and age where everything is connected that is harder to do than most would imagine and it would now seem that a third bank has linked a theft to…
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Acer Exposes Bank Details During Breach
It is never nice when you find out something that affects you second hand, but that’s just what has happened for thousands of Acer buyers when the company revealed that they had been hacked in a recent revelation to California’s Attorney General that it had been subject to an in-depth security breach.…
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Visa’s Payment Ring Will Debut at the Rio Olympics
How we pay for things changes almost as quickly as the technology it uses, with us doing away with metal coins and paper notes for plastic notes and cards. These days you don’t even need to use your card directly, instead being able to tap your card against the payment…
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1.2 Million Reasons Why Chip And Pin Security Matters
When it comes to banks, they’ve not had the best of luck. Gone are the days where a bank heist involved someone walking in with a balaclava and a big brown bag ready to stuff their pockets with notes. These days you lose your money to someone sitting behind a…
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