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Barclays Announces Video Banking
Barclays has announced that from 8th December, a select number of its customers will be able to talk directly to banking staff at any time of day. The service will allow customers to speak face-to-face with a Barclays staff member, possibly one they’ve spoken to before, about their account and…
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UK Banks Will Have Their Cyber Defenses Tested in Live Cyber War Games
Banks in the United Kingdom will have their network security tested over the next few months, as part of a live cyber war demonstration. This will present banks and the UK government with better analysis of where the financial industry currently stands, with the threat of a major data breach…
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Google is Forced to Censor Negative Information through ‘Right to be Forgotten’
The law given by the European Union, forcing Google to remove links to information people wish to no longer have available on the Internet, is apparently working like a charm. It is so perfect that even criminals, higher-ups and even ordinary people can remove negative information about them, having corrupt…
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Cash Machines Infected With Malicious Software Via USB Drive
A recent presentation at the hacker-themed Chaos Computing Congress in Hamburg, Germany has detailed how several cash machines were infected with software that allowed thieves to withdraw the cash multiple times before being discovered. The machines were vandalised to allow the insertion of a USB flash drive to the underlying…
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Bank Employees Falls Asleep On Keyboard, A Lot Of Money Gets Moved
Falling asleep on the job is hardly anything new but a story reported by the Inquisitr might make you think twice about falling asleep on or near your keyboard. A German banker fell asleep on his keyboard and accidentally turned a small money transfer into an huge money transfer. The…
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U.S. & China To Setup A Joint Cyber Security Team
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that the United States and China has agreed that both the countries need to work on Cyber Security. This would be an area where both the countries, especially China, will be able to earn each other’s trust and cooperation, as told by China’s…
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