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Big Banks are Top Targets for Identity Theft

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2008-02-28 16:46:12 by Valentino in Spyware Techie
...banks such as HSBC, Washing Mutual and Bank of America suffer the highest rates of identity theft in the banking industry. Thousands of customers have reported identity theft from the previously mentioned banks. With an alarming rate of growth of phishing sites identity theft has run ramped among the larger banks Why are bigger banks the...
 
Tags: identity theft, identity theft tip, identity, identity theft due, sites identity theft, banks, sites, larger banks serve, larger banks
 
 
 
 
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MoneyAisle: Live Auctions Where Banks Compete for You

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2008-06-09 11:05:04 by Kristen Nicole in Mashable!
...banks bid for customers. Its almost the reverse of an auction site like eBay. Banks using MoneyAisle can bid against each other in live auctions, starting with certificates of deposit (CDs), and high-yield savings accounts. These are the first two product offerings from MoneyAisle, and the company expects to expand beyond these two for more...
 
Tags: moneyaisle, banks, moneyaisle emerge, bid, banks bid, live auctions, high-yield savings accounts, online auction marketplace, customers
 
 
 
 
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MoneyAisle.com - Banks Bid For You

2008-06-09 12:02:00 by HASH0x8c46938 in KillerStartups.com - all
 
...banks bid on having you as their next customer. After a couple of minutes MoneyAisle check for the best bid and then contacts all of the other bidding banks to see if theyd like to improve their initial bid. Finally, after just a couple of minutes you receive the best bid and can choose whether to accept it or not In their own words Banks...
 
Tags: bid, banks bid, banks, moneyaisle, initial bid, minutes moneyaisle check, minutes, live auction begins, auction
 
 
 
 
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Banks banned in 'Second Life'

2008-01-08 23:09:00 by Daniel Terdiman in Webware.com
 
...banks As of January 22, 2008, it will be prohibited to offer interest of any direct return on an investment (whether in Linden dollars or other currency) from any object, such as an ATM, located in Second Life , without proof of an applicable government registration statement or financial institution charter," Linden Lab wrote on its blog...
 
Tags: life residents, residents, life, lab blog post, blog, banks, residents lost money, economy remains, economy
 
 
 
 
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Peter Thiel: Banks Failed Because Run By Uncool Republicans

2008-11-10 20:39:00 by Henry Blodget in Silicon Alley Insider
 
...banks suffer mortal wounds while the least Republican survived? "I have three explanations," Peter told me. "I'm not sure which one is right, but I am sure at least one of them is 1. A hostile federal bureaucracy. Despite a Republican in the White House, the bureaucrats who staffed the regulatory agencies, the Treasury and the Fed remain...
 
Tags: republican, republican firms, republican profile, republican institutions, republican investment banks, peter thiel, peter, investment banks, markets
 
 
 
 
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Attacking Banks - Encrypted Strings and Local Content Injection

2008-05-20 01:29:07 by manunkind in PC Sympathy
 
...banks. While most tend to have the same behavior, we found a particular piece that actually encrypted most of its strings to slow down analysis. In this blog we analyze the decryption routine and write a decryption algorithm, as well as note some other general ways to automate dumping of encrypted strings and their associated plaintext. In...
 
Tags: malware, malware filters bad, strings, brazilian banks, target brazilian banks, content injection, caixa economica federal, malware author, g-buster browser defense
 
 
 
 
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Stock Futures Up on Massive Central Bank Injection

2008-09-18 06:02:00 by Henry Blodget in Silicon Alley Insider
 
...banks fled to the safety of a limited supply of T-bills or curled up in the fetal position. The Fed, ECB, Bank of Japan, and other central banks responded overnight with a coordinated injection of $180 billion into the global financial system Bloomberg: The Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan united with their...
 
Tags: bank, banks, banks fled, individual central banks, swiss national bank, central banks, european central bank, swiss central bank, federal reserve actions
 
 
 
 
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Analyzing The Bailout: What's In It, Anyway?

2008-09-29 07:04:00 by Henry Blodget in Silicon Alley Insider
 
...banks bought them for (a horrifying possibility, given that most of the securities have already been written way down). This provision, however, doesn't apply to banks who acquired the assets via mergers or to banks in bankruptcy or conservatorship. It also means that the Treasury can and will pay far more than market value for this garbage...
 
Tags: bailout, massive bailout congress, market, suspend mark-to-market, congress, companies, democrat shell companies, market prices, president
 
 
 
 
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Kash N Carry Goes To Congress

2008-11-14 13:54:00 by John Carney in Silicon Alley Insider
 
...banks. In early October, after consulting closely with Chairman Bernanke, Secretary Paulson explained that Treasury would use the financial rescue package granted by Congress to purchase equity directly from financial institutions - the fastest and most productive way to use our new authorities to help stabilize our financial system. Working...
 
Tags: financial, global financial system, financial rescue package, financial system, critical, critical priorities, financial markets, stronger capital base, capital