Archive for Security

  • Banks accept Dubai assassins' stolen IDs Banks accept Dubai assassins’ stolen IDs

    Special report: Passport credentials still valid for identity fraud BY CHARIS PALMER The stolen identities allegedly used in the assassination of Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh are still valid documents for the purposes of conducting business online in Australia, an iTnews special investig...

  • The social barometer of our times

    Reviewing the conversation on Twitter from Monday night’s 4Corners program reveals two distinct camps of viewers. Widely viewed and widely tweeted, the program tweet stream has achieved great reach into the online world. Interest in the program was so intense that the follow-on forum conversation ...

  • Will security fears kill off CBA’s online banking ambitions?

    The bankers running Australia’s most actively used online banking service believe their latest upgrade puts them “years ahead” of the competition.With the Commonwealth Bank already well down the path towards deploying its new core banking platform, Drew Unsworth, head of online banking & s...