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  • Microsoft reshuffles financial services execs

    Microsoft has reshuffled executives in its US financial services group to improve its responsiveness to customers' needs in the banking, capital markets and insurance industries.

  • RSA acquires authentication company

    Identity and access management firm RSA Security has snapped up authentication services provider Cyota in a US$145 million deal.

  • Banks inch towards voice authentication

    Banks are slowly moving towards deploying voice-authentication technologies in order to add an extra layer of security for their online and telephone banking customers.

  • Australian banks targeted for security attacks

    Australia and New Zealand’s banking and finance sector may have been the worst hit by security attacks so far this year, but it’s the most security conscious segment of the market, according to Computer Associates’ June quaterly trends research.

  • Online banks: Prime targets for attacks

    Instead of a note and a gun, high-tech bank robbers use a program and an e-mail. Security firms are working overtime to ward off the mounting number of hack attacks.

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  • Banks inch towards voice authentication

    Banks are slowly moving towards deploying voice-authentication technologies in order to add an extra layer of security for their online and telephone banking customers.

  • The money network: Migrating to SWIFT

    When your money moves, it almost certainly travels using SWIFTNet, a network for financial institutions. We chart the ups and downs of a few Australian companies which are upgrading to the network.

  • Protecting our borders: IT stands guard

    Can a national ID card protect Australians against terrorist attacks? And can citizens' details be protected by Public Key Infrastructure? We look at the types of hardware and software employed to combat terrorism, and how ports and other critical infrastructure are protected.

  • Technology and the 9/11 Commission

    The former United States undersecretary of state for security says that identity authentication is crucial to stopping terrorists.

  • Caught in a phishing trap?

    The rise in online identity fraud has companies on the hook: Either educate customers or lose them.

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