News tagged with banking system
House OKs cybersecurity bill despite veto threat
The House ignored Obama administration objections Thursday and approved legislation aimed at helping stop electronic attacks on critical U.S. infrastructure and private companies.
Apr 27, 2012 |
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Social responsibility of businesses questioned
When the Icelandic banking system was privatised in 2003, it inaugurated a period of furious expansion of both loans and risky investments. The bubble burst in 2008. At that time, the nominal assets of the three largest banks ...
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Feb 28, 2012 |
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'Hackers take down' Palestinian servers
Hackers from around the world have attacked Palestinian servers, cutting Internet service across the West Bank and Gaza, the Palestinian communications minister said on Tuesday.
Nov 01, 2011 |
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Feds: Full Tilt Poker site was Ponzi scheme
(AP) -- An Internet poker company that was blocked from operating in the U.S. in the spring as part of an online gambling crackdown was "not a legitimate poker company, but a global Ponzi scheme," federal prosecutors said ...
Sep 20, 2011 |
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A plan for better banking: Researchers propose model of systemwide diversification
As much of the developed world continues to dig out from the impact of the 2008 financial crisis, a team of researchers at Harvard and in London has created a model of bank failure aimed at helping economies ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Jul 25, 2011 |
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Banks team up for online payment system
Online and mobile customers of three major banks will be able to instantly zap funds from their accounts to other depositors at the banks under a program to be rolled out across the country over the coming year.
May 27, 2011 |
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Computer meltdown leaves millions of Aussies without cash
A freak computer glitch at Australia's biggest bank froze cash machines and left millions of people struggling to access their money on Saturday.
Nov 27, 2010 |
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Cybercrime is world's most dangerous criminal threat
A crime epidemic is silently sweeping the globe as criminals turn our ever-increasing dependence on computers against us, and even the head of Interpol is not immune.
Sep 17, 2010 |
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Battling Botnets With An Awesome OS
(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite security software, patches and updates, your computer remains threatened by attack and takeover from hackers and cyber-criminals who will turn your PC into their networked robot -- or "bot" -- creating ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 09, 2010 |
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The safe way to use one Internet password
(PhysOrg.com) -- A little-used Internet authentication system from the 1980s could provide the answer for enabling web users to securely log in only once per Internet session, a Queensland University of Technology researcher ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 25, 2010 |
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Can we future-proof against another financial crisis?
(PhysOrg.com) -- On the day that the UK emerges from the recession, an Oxford University study warns that by continuing to test and future-proof individual banks without considering the resilience of the financial ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Jan 26, 2010 |
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Financial Crisis Reduces Economic Freedom in China and the West
(PhysOrg.com) -- The current financial crisis may reduce economic freedom as governments are likely increase intervention in a bid to protect their own economies - according to a study in Pacific Focus published by Wiley- ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Jul 31, 2009 |
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Obama's regulatory plan doesn't go far enough, says UCSC economist
Tempting as it is to demonize greedy Wall Street bankers for the nation's economic ills, the real cause is far more insidious than a handful of selfish individuals--and may prove resistant to the Obama administration's ...
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Mar 26, 2009 |
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