Targeted advertising is everywhere on the web, your browsing habits help ad engines decide what content you are most likely to click on. This alone bothers some people, but how would you feel if advertisers... More...

A computer hard disc containing one million sets of bank details was bought on eBay for just £35. The secondhand PC contained details of customers from American Express, NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland. The... More...

Security breaches that are allowing the financial details of tens of thousands of Britons to be sold on the internet are to be investigated by the country's information watchdog. Without paying a single penny, The... More...

A man robbing a bank demanded the money by writing a note on one of his own checks, authorities say. Not surprisingly, he was caught soon afterward. Forest Kelly Bissonnette, 27, apparently tried to cover... More...

Bank of Scotland (HBOS) is telling 62,000 customers they could be at risk of identity theft after it stuck an unencrypted disc in the ordinary post, which was subsequently lost. The disc, containing information on... More...

A leading provider of digital-security services wants to make disposable passwords easier for consumers to accept by squeezing the technology into the corner of a regular credit or ATM card. Fran Rosch, vice president for... More...

IBM has won a five-year deal, which it claims is worth $460 million, to provide Switzerland's Banque Cantonale Vaudoise with a broad range of tech services while assuming management control of the bank's internal IT... More...

Spotted at The Register: Not really news but it's refreshing to see the honest approach from a bank on loan's News source: El Reg... More...

According to Henry Gonzalez, senior security researcher for Websense, an attack that targeted online customers of at least 50 financial institutions in the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific was shut down this week. The pharming attack... More...

Maxime Seguineau helped found enterprise messaging firm Antepo in February 2000, just as reality was puncturing the hype-filled bubble of the dot-com craze. Back then, IM was mostly for teens and college students, who used... More...

Swedish bank Nordea, the target of one of the largest online heists, has lost between 7 to 8 million Swedish kronor (a little over $1.1 million USD) over the course of 15 months. Security officials... More...

Customers of the Fifth Third Bank in America were the most at risk from phishing attacks in August, according to figures from antivirus firm McAfee. The top two institutions targeted in August accounted for a... More...

As on Slashdot: An anonymous reader writes with today's announcement that "the Austrian project for Quantum Cryptography made the world's first Bank Transfer via Quantum Cryptography Based on Entangled Photons; see also Einstein-Podolski-Rosen Paradoxon." ... More...

Investigators are trying to find the source of a phony site, purportedly from the FDIC, that tries to trick recipients into giving up personal financial data. Federal investigators are seeking the source of... More...

Yup, it's another scam email sent in a spoofy manner by a load of merchant bankers... The Bank of England says it has intercepted over 100,000 fraudulent e-mails masquerading as computer... More...

EBay Inc., its PayPal money transfer service, and Bank One Corp. agreed to settle two patent infringement lawsuits, eBay and PayPal said Monday. Terms of the agreement were confidential, the companies said. ... More...

Thanks to nathanintu for his post in BPN POLICE are investigating two fraudulent spam attacks in the same day, as both the country's largest bank and domain name registrar were targeted by... More...

Bank It is a simple yet fun and addictive freeware game. It is based on a very simple concept of banking accumulated points after guessing if the next number will be higher or lower than... More...

A Sydney software developer has paired up with Indian outsourcer Tata Consultancy Services in a $US100 million ($181 million) deal to supply technology to the State Bank of India. The world's third-largest bank... More...

Just seen this over at Activewin. A new Gartner study comes to the not-so-staggering conclusion that Mr. and Mrs. America don't like online authentication services such as Microsoft's Passport and AOL's Screen Name service. The... More...

U.S. software giant Microsoft drummed up publicity for Windows XP, its most ambitious operating system ever, by signing up high-profile corporate users in Singapore ahead of its launch later in New York on Thursday. ... More...