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Banks, named new main target for financial crackers, ponder radical tactics for defense

Posted January 10, 2012 - 6:09 pm

The Wall Street Journal reports at least two efforts underway among major banks to share data on developing security threats, prompted by Zeus and other bank-targeting malware. Some banks promise to come to meetings, but still don't want to talk when they get there.
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Too many people hate Bank of America to point at a suspect who may have hacked it

Posted October 3, 2011 - 2:08 pm

Bank of America is having uptime problems. Customers couldn't log in over the weekend and the home page was out today. Bank spokespeople wouldn't name the problem, but insist it wasn't external. BofA web technolgy is good enough to kill itself with no help from outside.
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$500K Citigroup fine is for poor security on obsolete crime: insider theft of cash, not data

Posted August 12, 2011 - 1:16 pm

Citigroup has been hacked twice in recent weeks. One was an old-fashioned assault; the other was the hot new threat: an insider who walked out the door with data hackers could never get themselves. Oh, and it also lost $20M to embezzlers, one who went undetected for 8 years.
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Anonymous releases WikiLeaks secrets on Bank of America

Posted March 14, 2011 - 2:30 pm

Anonymous may be taking over as the attack dog in WikiLeaks' constant battle against suppression, or may just be less patient than Julian Assange.
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Anonymous releases Bank of America related documents

Posted March 14, 2011 - 12:10 pm

The group of online activists known as "Anonymous" has released a batch of e-mail concerning Bank of America that was given to the group by a whistleblower who worked for a related mortgage and vehicle loan insurer.
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Bank of America braces itself for fallout from WikiLeaks disclosures, report says

Posted January 4, 2011 - 7:22 pm

The Bank of America has created a team of internal and external experts to create a damage control plan to be put into place if WikiLeaks releases insider documents it's said to hold.
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3 tech giants make list of 'most hated' companies

Posted January 4, 2011 - 12:12 pm

The folks at 24/7 Wall St. decided to ring in the New Year by getting their hate on.
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Satire: Secret Bank of America memo details WikiLeaks counter-strategy

Posted January 3, 2011 - 3:54 pm

A lengthy article in Monday's New York Times details the defensive tactics being deployed by Bank of America as it awaits the anticipated releases of thousands of internal bank documents by the whistle-blowing organization WikiLeaks.
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As it awaits WikiLeaks bomb, Bank of America buys up offensive domain names (and does a sloppy job of it)

Posted December 23, 2010 - 2:17 pm

No matter what happens when WikiLeaks releases an expected flood of internal documents from Bank of America, there's one thing you can count on: All will be quiet over at BrianMoynihanBlows.com.
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Bank of America claims ex-employees stole databases

Posted December 15, 2010 - 3:27 pm

Bank of America has claimed in a lawsuit that four ex-employees copied confidential databases of its trade secrets, and executed a “co-ordinated” attack on its wealth management unit using the data.
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Big-bank iPhone tests could mark start of Blackberry's role as legacy system

Posted November 5, 2010 - 12:51 pm

When status-conscious industries change to a new thing, it may not mark the end of the old thing. When hidebound, conservative banks make such a change, the switch has been thrown.
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BofA call center worker pleads guilty to data theft

Posted June 8, 2010 - 12:30 pm

A Bank of America call center employee has pleaded guilty to charges that he stole sensitive client information and then tried to sell it for cash.
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Bank of America touts mainframe work as a safe career

Posted September 18, 2009 - 8:39 pm

Large financial services companies like Bank of America are scouring colleges and universities in search of skills needed to run the mainframe systems that are still widely used at their firms.
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Merill Lynch to cut thousands of IT jobs

Posted October 20, 2008 - 11:33 am

Bank of America's takeover of Merrill Lynch will result in thousands of job losses, Merrill Lynch chief executive John Thain has said. Most of the job cuts will come from IT as well as operations and finance across both banks.
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How will the financial meltdown affect IT?

Posted September 16, 2008 - 11:08 am

Until now, the IT industry, analysts, observers, and myself have said that the near-recession in which we currently find ourselves won't have a dramatic impact on the IT business and the channel.
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