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BBC News - NatWest online services hit by cyber attack - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...business-25262790

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shared by anonymous on 07 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • ails safe On Friday, a number of customers reported problems getting on to the bank's website, from which they normally access their accounts online. The RBS Group - which includes RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank - said that NatWest was worst affected by the "deliberate" disruption. "Due to a surge in internet traffic deliberately directed at the NatWest website, customers experienced difficulties accessing some of our customer websites today," a spokeswoman for RBS said. "This deliberate surge of traffic is commonly known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. We have taken the appropriate action to restore the affected websites. At no time was there any risk to customers. We apologise for the inconvenience caused." She stressed that the latest incident was not connected to Monday's IT failure and no customer information was compromised at any time. The incident on Monday also affected cash machines and card payments and prompted an apology from the boss of the RBS group, Ross McEwan. More on This Story Big Banking Latest news EU fines banks over rate-rigging We've kept businesses alive - RBS Cable hands RBS file to watchdog Parties row over Co-op 'smears' JP Morgan in record $13bn settlement Police search home of Paul Flowers Barclays plans to cut 1,700 jobs $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-1"); Basics Funding for Lending: How does it work? Q&A: Standard Chartered allegations HSBC report: Key findings Q&A: Basel rules on bank capital $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-2"); Guides and analysis Shock: A banker can live on £1m salary RBS's new boss, Ross McEwan, will not receive any bonus for his first 15 months in the job, and won't pocket any bonus payments till at least 2017. When will banking ever change? Q&A: Banker bonus cap plan What has changed since the crisis? Explaining the Libor scandal Timeline: Libor-fixing scandal $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-6");
  • Details safe On Friday, a number of customers reported problems getting on to the bank's website, from which they normally access their accounts online. The RBS Group - which includes RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank - said that NatWest was worst affected by the "deliberate" disruption. "Due to a surge in internet traffic deliberately directed at the NatWest website, customers experienced difficulties accessing some of our customer websites today," a spokeswoman for RBS said. "This deliberate surge of traffic is commonly known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. We have taken the appropriate action to restore the affected websites. At no time was there any risk to customers. We apologise for the inconvenience caused." She stressed that the latest incident was not connected to Monday's IT failure and no customer information was compromised at any time. The incident on Monday also affected cash machines and card payments and prompted an apology from the boss of the RBS group, Ross McEwan. More on This Story Big Banking Latest news EU fines banks over rate-rigging We've kept businesses alive - RBS Cable hands RBS file to watchdog Parties row over Co-op 'smears' JP Morgan in record $13bn settlement Police search home of Paul Flowers Barclays plans to cut 1,700 jobs $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-1"); Basics Funding for Lending: How does it work? Q&A: Standard Chartered allegations HSBC report: Key findings Q&A: Basel rules on bank capital $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-2"); Guides and analysis Shock: A banker can live on £1m salary RBS's new boss, Ross McEwan, will not receive any bonus for his first 15 months in the job, and won't pocket any bonus payments till at least 2017. When will banking ever change? Q&A: Banker bonus cap plan What has changed since the crisis? Explaining the Libor scandal Timeline: Libor-fixing scandal $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-6"); hyper-depth-st
  • 's website, from which they normally access their accounts online. The RBS Group - which includes RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank - said that NatWest was worst affected by the "deliberate" disruption. "Due to a surge in internet traffic deliberately directed at the NatWest website, customers experienced difficulties accessing some of our customer websites today," a spokeswoman for RBS said. "This deliberate surge of traffic is commonly known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. We have taken the appropriate action to restore the affected websites. At no time was there any risk to customers. We apologise for the inconvenience caused." She stressed that the latest incident was not connected to Monday's IT failure and no customer information was compromised at any time. The incident on Monday also affected cash machines and card payments and prompted an apology from the boss of the RBS group, Ross McEwan. More on This Story Big Banking Latest news EU fines banks over rate-rigging We've kept businesses alive - RBS Cable hands RBS file to watchdog Parties row over Co-op 'smears' JP Morgan in record $13bn settlement Police search home of Paul Flowers Barclays plans to cut 1,700 jobs $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-1"); Basics Funding for Lending: How does it work? Q&A: Standard Chartered allegations HSBC report: Key findings Q&A: Basel rules on bank capital $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-2"); Guides and analysis Shock: A banker can live on £1m salary RBS's new boss, Ross McEwan, will not receive any bonus for his first 15 months in the job, and won't pocket any bonus payments till at least 2017. When will banking ever change? Q&A: Banker bonus cap plan What has changed since the crisis? Explaining the Libor scandal Timeline: Libor-fixing scandal $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-6"); Your Savings
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  • and cash machines. Details safe On Friday, a number of customers reported problems getting on to the bank's website, from which they normally access their accounts online. The RBS Group - which includes RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank - said that NatWest was worst affected by the "deliberate" disruption. "Due to a surge in internet traffic deliberately directed at the NatWest website, customers experienced difficulties accessing some of our customer websites today," a spokeswoman for RBS said. "This deliberate surge of traffic is commonly known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. We have taken the appropriate action to restore the affected websites. At no time was there any risk to customers. We apologise for the inconvenience caused." She stressed that the latest incident was not connected to Monday's IT failure and no customer information was compromised at any time. The incident on Monday also affected cash machines and card payments and prompted an apology from the boss of the RBS group, Ross McEwan. More on This Story Big Banking Latest news EU fines banks over rate-rigging We've kept businesses alive - RBS Cable hands RBS file to watchdog Parties row over Co-op 'smears' JP Morgan in record $13bn settlement Police search home of Paul Flowers Barclays plans to cut 1,700 jobs $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-1"); Basics Funding for Lending: How does it work? Q&amp;A: Standard Chartered allegations HSBC report: Key findings Q&amp;A: Basel rules on bank capital $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-2"); Guides and analysis Shock: A banker can live on £1m salary RBS's new boss, Ross McEwan, will not receive any bonus for his first 15 months in the job, and won't pocket any bonus payments till at least 2017. When will banking ever change? Q&amp;A: Banker bonus cap plan What has changed since the crisis? Explaining the Libor scandal Timeline: Libor-fixing scandal $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-6"); <h4 cla
  • It came less than a week after a major computer failure left some customers unable to use cards and cash machines.
  • On Friday, a number of customers reported problems getting on to the bank's website
  • Due to a surge in internet traffic deliberately directed at the NatWest website, customers experienced difficulties accessing some of our customer websites today,
dr tech

Facial-Recognition App Can Help Identify Missing Children - 0 views

mashable.com/...chinese-missing-kids-app

ITGS app children facial ai CCTV

shared by dr tech on 01 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 01 Jun 13
     
    "Advertising agency JWT China and missing children site Baby Back Home have jointly developed an app in China that utilizes facial-recognition technology to help identify missing or kidnapped kids, Creativity Online reported. The organizations say that, with a population reaching approximately 1.4 billion, everyone can be a search volunteer."
dr tech

Complex Algorithm Auto-Writes Books, Could Transform Science - 0 views

mashable.com/...l-algorithms-transform-science

complex algorithm ITGS peopleandmachines

shared by dr tech on 01 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 01 Jun 13
     
    "computer programs can accelerate discovery in the sciences faster than scientists can, if the computer is trained to behave like one"
dr tech

'Boundless Informant' Is a Secret NSA Tool to Data-Mine the World - 0 views

mashable.com/...boundless-informant-nsa

PRISM ITGS anonymity security governmentandpolitics nsa tool data mining

shared by dr tech on 09 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 09 Jun 13
     
    "The NSA has a tool that records and analyzes all the flow of data that the spy agency collects around the world. Think of it as a global data-mining software that details exactly how much intelligence, and of what type, has been collected from every country in the world. It's aptly called "Boundless Informant." "
dr tech

Starbucks: We Stored Your Passwords in Plaintext - 0 views

mashable.com/...cks-mobile-passwords-plaintext

starbucks stored passwords ITGS security password unencrypted

shared by dr tech on 17 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 17 Jan 14
     
    "User information, including passwords, email addresses, usernames and geolocation data, was unencrypted - making it readily accessible to anyone who plugs the handset into a PC, according to a report detailing the vulnerability."
dr tech

Can Machines Keep You Safer at Airports Than Humans? - 0 views

mashable.com/...machine-airport-security

machines airports humans ITGS peopleandmachines security authenticity

shared by dr tech on 14 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 14 Jan 14
     
    "An automated process is better-suited for a variety of other machine-readable forms of identification, said Vahid Motevalli, a professor at Tennessee Tech University and a flight security expert. For example, a person can't read bar codes, but even if they could, they wouldn't be as efficient as an automated process. A machine can almost always check in more people per hour than a security official, meaning security lines would move much faster."
dr tech

Snowden Docs: British Spies Used DDoS Attacks Against Anonymous - 0 views

mashable.com/...owden-docs-gchq-anonymous-ddos

ITGS ddos security policiesandstandards politics and government

shared by dr tech on 06 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 06 Feb 14
     
    "The new documents reveal that a GCHQ unit dubbed the Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group, or JTRIG, launched an operation called Rolling Thunder against the hacker collective in 2011. That operation included using DDoS attacks as well as malware to slow down the hackers and later identify them, as first reported by as reported by NBC News on Wednesday."
dr tech

Your Body Odor Could Be Your New ID Card - 0 views

mashable.com/...body-odor-id

body odor ITGS biometrics security

shared by dr tech on 10 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 10 Feb 14
     
    "Facial recognition, fingerprints and iris scans could soon take a back seat to the newest biometric identification method on the block: body odor. Researchers at Spain's Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, in collaboration with tech firm IIia Sistemas SL, are developing a system that can verify people by their scent signatures."
dr tech

Mt. Gox Implodes, Putting Bitcoin's Future in Jeopardy - 0 views

mashable.com/...bitcoin-mt-gox-down

ITGS bitcoin security policiesandstandards peopleandmachines

shared by dr tech on 25 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 25 Feb 14
     
    "That Crisis Strategy Draft included the line: "At the risk of appearing hyperbolic, this could be the end of Bitcoin, at least for most of the public.""
dr tech

How Cloud Technology Could Have Tracked the Malaysia Airlines Plane - 0 views

mashable.com/...nology-malaysia-airlines-mh370

cloud technology airlines ITGS

shared by dr tech on 18 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 18 Mar 14
     
    "But if MH370 had been fitted with technology that made use of the cloud it may never have been lost in the first place. Instead of relying on the combination of GPS, primary and secondary radar, and aircraft communications addressing and reporting systems (ACARS) to keep track of planes, we should be making sure they send regular flight information to the data centers in the cloud."
dr tech

Google's 'Pay Per Gaze' and the Future of Connected Advertising - 0 views

mashable.com/...oogle-pay-per-gaze-advertising

google pay advertising ITGS privacy businessandemployment

shared by dr tech on 25 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 25 Aug 13
     
    "While Google has played down the notion of rolling out anything soon (it will take years until Glass builds up enough users to make it worthwhile), marketers can't stop buzzing about the possibility of paying for ads in the physical world based on user engagement and reactions. The patent even details how a device like Google Glass could infer a user's emotional response to an ad - whether they were happy, sad or indifferent - and adjust pricing accordingly."
dr tech

Tech Terms Censored Online in China - 0 views

mashable.com/...tech-terms-censored-china

ITGS control peopleandmachines policiesandstandards authenticity china censorship

shared by dr tech on 30 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 30 Jul 13
     
    "A new study released this month in First Monday uncovers more than 4,000 unique keywords censored over the last year and a half on Chinese instant messaging platforms. Focusing on Skype and the microblogging service Sina Weibo, the researchers cultivated their keyword list using reverse-engineering techniques such as packet sniffing, which captures and analyzes packets of data as they pass through a network."
dr tech

You Should Be Afraid of Artificial Intelligence - 0 views

mashable.com/...artificial-intelligence-fear

ITGS control peopleandmachines ai

shared by dr tech on 04 Aug 13 - Cached
  • dr tech on 04 Aug 13
     
    "Writing about Artificial Intelligence is a challenge. By and large, there are two directions to take when discussing the subject: focus on the truly remarkable achievements of the technology or dwell on the dangers of what could happen if machines reach a level of Sentient AI, in which self-aware machines reach human level intelligence). "
dr tech

$10 Cellphones Bring Health Care to Developing World - 0 views

mashable.com/...medic-mobile-video

cellphones health health care ITGS equalityofaccess

shared by dr tech on 12 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 12 Nov 13
     
    "Each of these community health workers typically works with 100 families, and they used to hand-deliver patient updates to doctors by foot. But by equipping these individuals with $10 cellphones, Medic Mobile helped to create a hub-and-spoke model of health care that's revolutionized the way millions of people get well."
dr tech

India Will Ask the U.S. Government for Help Spying on Its Citizens - 0 views

mashable.com/...india-us-spying

ITGS india u s government spying surveillance

shared by dr tech on 05 Dec 13 - Cached
  • While governments in many countries, including India, have reacted with anger to this year’s revelations from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden that the United States spied on foreign officials, several have also been increasing Internet surveillance at home
    • dr tech
      dr tech on 05 Dec 13
       
      S+E Issue is Surveliiance - related to Gloablisation
  • dr tech on 05 Dec 13
     
    "India has started using a system that allows security agencies and income tax officials to directly intercept phone calls and emails without any court or legislative oversight, Reuters reported this summer."
dr tech

What 50 Years of Hurricane Data Still Hasn't Told Us - 0 views

mashable.com/...hurricane-patterns-history

hurricane data model simulations

shared by dr tech on 13 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 13 Oct 13
     
    "Because trends in data only become discernible with time, Masters believes it will be five or 10 years before we have a firm handle on what's going on."
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Top 10 Countries With the Most Digital Natives - 0 views

mashable.com/...chart-digital-natives

countries digital natives ITGS peopleandmachines equalityofaccess

shared by dr tech on 20 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 20 Oct 13
     
    "China is home to the world's largest population of digital natives, totaling more than 75 million people - that's almost twice as many as the U.S., which has more than 41 million."
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