Archive for the ‘CU Technology’ Category
Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
Today was the first long day at BarCampBankSeattle and it was pretty amazing. We've got people from all over the blogosphere here sharing and learning. Jesse Robbins, all the Trabian guys, Brad and Mark from the Garland Group, Tim from Currency Marketing, and Jason from Wesabe just to name a ...
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Monday, May 28th, 2007
In my previous post, I commented on the proposed ".Bank" TLD. Since then, F-Secure has defended their proposal in their blog, addressing many of the key issues I commented about.
Here is what they had to say about users still being fooled the new addresses:
The main point of such a new ...
Posted in CU Technology, Online Banking, Online Security | 2 Comments »
Sunday, May 20th, 2007
Here is the situation: F-Secure's Mikko Hypponen has proposed that we fight phishing by creating a new Top Level Domain (TLD), called .Bank. One would have to prove that they are a legitimate financial institution to get one. Additionally, the domains would cost a substantial amount, such as $50,000, to prevent all ...
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
Phishing sucks. There's very little we can do to prevent it and once it happens it can take days before the situation can be resolved.
Everyone's heard the phrase, "the best defense is a good offense". So could we go on the offensive against phishers? And ...
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Monday, April 16th, 2007
Congrats to Lambeth Savings and CU (in the UK) for being the first credit union to use Google Groups as an outlet for speaking with members. View their Google Groups page here.
As I've posted about previously, I believe that CU's have an opportunity to use Google Groups not only ...
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Tuesday, May 30th, 2006
I've heard some whispers that the credit union industry might be uniquely positioned to provide WiFi service to areas surrounding their branches. While this proposition could pose security risks, additional cost during a margin-shrinking period, and operational problems (think about people hanging out in the lobby all the time), it ...
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