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Anonymous and Team Poison Join Forces For OpRobinHood to Target Banks and...
Two hacking groups, Anonymous and Team Poison, have joined forces to take on the banks, steal money and donate it to charities and protests. Reclaiming the "99 per cent's money back".
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Barclays Launches Money-Texting App Pingit
Barclays has launched cross-platform smartphone app Barclays Pingit, which lets BlackBerry, iPhone and Android users transfer money to each other not by the modern NFC system, but by good,...
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Safe, Smart, and… Fun? The Surprising Science of ATMs
Using an automated teller machine is inherently risky. You stand there, your back turned, signaling to everyone around that you're about to have a wad of tens in your pocket. If you're lucky, there's a...
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These Are Objectively the Worst Cash Points in the World
These cash points would be perfect if the world was filled with giant oafs and little imps but uh, it’s not. That’s why they’re so completely horrible—normal people can’t reach one cash point because...
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Biometric ATM Reads Palms, Not Debit Cards
Want some cash in Gifu Prefecture, Japan? Come September, you’ll be able to just press some flesh with one of Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank’s biometric ATMs to access your accounts. These are expected to be the...
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Barclays Pingit Now Works With Your Cheltenham & Gloucester Savings Account Too
Pingit, the Barclays app that lets bankers and normal people send money to each other with their phones, has been opened up to support all the other kinds of bank. Anyone with a UK bank account and a...
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Failed Automated Software Caused RBS/Natwest Banking System Crash
The complete crash of RBS and Natwest’s payment system for four days last week was caused by a glitch in an automated batch processing tool, which is a rather mundane explanation for the banks’...
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Automated Bank Hack Software Made £50m Last Year Without Lifting a Finger
Fully automated software earned its underground creators around £50million over the last year, as updates to the Zeus and SpyEye malware managed to steal bank account details, login and transfer money...
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HSBC Declares All iPhones “Unsafe PCs”
What a brilliant app. Not. HSBC’s iPhone app for online banking declares that all iPhones are not phones at all. Rather, they are identified as unsafe and unprotected PCs that desperately need some...
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RBS and NatWest Launch NFC for iPhone 4S, But Only Via a Crappy Plastic Case
TouchPay is a new system of managing NFC payments, designed for iPhone 4 and 4S users who don’t mind the social stigma that comes from having a pretty shameful plastic case known as the iCarte covering...
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Genius Bank Robbers Dug a 100-Foot-Long Tunnel to Rob a Bank
This is so incredible that I think I’ve seen this in a movie before.* And if I didn’t, it should be put in a movie immediately. Genius bank robbers dug a 100 foot tunnel from a parking garage across...
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Someone Hacked America’s Bank, the Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve in the US said that one of its internal websites had been hacked today. It’s unclear who did the hacking but the Feds say that the hackers were not able to do any serious damage....
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30 Second Chit Chat Replaces PINs and Passwords at One Barclays Division
An introductory chat about the weather and last night’s TV may soon be enough to get you through your bank’s telephone security system, with Barclays successfully testing a voice recognition tool that...
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Are We All Going to Have to Start Paying For Our Bank Accounts?
The EU has tabled a few draft proposals designed to force banks to be clearer on their charges and make comparing fees easier, which could bring about the long-heralded end of mostly “free” banking in...
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Jane Austen Wins Battle to Represent Women on £10 Note
The growing public outrage over the lack of successful ladies from history on our bank notes is set to end, after the Bank of England announced plans to stick literary queen Jane Austen on the English...
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It’s Easy to Hack Britain and We’re Losing the E-War
A committee of MPs has taken a rather doom-laden stance on the UK’s security position, claiming we’re one of the world’s top target for e-crime and we need to spend much, much more money on reporting...
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New Local Banking Crisis Triggered by IT Man Forgetting to Renew Domain
It seems that good old human forgetfulness is just as likely to take out the UK’s banking infrastructure as today’s high-profile hacking attempts, thanks to Cydesdale and Yorkshire banks losing...
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Bank of England Boss Flashes Plastic Bank Note Plan
The new boss of the Bank of England is considering introducing plastic or polymer bank notes to the UK, with the new notes featuring the same designs as the current paper versions but reduced in size a...
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Cyber-Thieves Use a £10 Device to Almost Steal Millions From a Bank
Normally, when you think cyber-bank-robbery, you think slightly nerdy guys holed up in a basement somewhere, with random wires coming out of every orifice and some guy in the background twittering...
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Which Bank Should You Switch Allegiance To?
If ever there was a good time to start banking with somebody else, it’s now. New government-enforced rules mean that banks have to transfer your banking within seven days, including handling the...
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