Thanks to Vitalik Buterin, full time Bitcoin writer and developer, for his contributions to this post. The Canadian Bitcoin community has come far in the past six months. Earlier this year, all that
Over the last few weeks, criminals have been exploiting weak fraud detection systems used for debit cards with "flash" attacks, where hundreds of withdrawals are made over a very short period of time.Banking
Published on: October 28th, 2010 Jeremy Kirk @itbusinessca
I'm Joaquim Menezes, senior online editor at IT Business. Our guest today is Jas Anand, product and risk strategy manager at Actimize. We've had Jas on this program before. Today he's going to
Published on: September 3rd, 2009 Joaquim P. Menezes @itbusinessca
It wasn't long ago that bank customers judged the quality of their local financial institutions by the sturdiness of their columns and vault doors. That idea is a throwback to an era when
Published on: August 12th, 2009 Mike Elgan @itbusinessca
Diebold has released a security fix for its Opteva automated teller machines after cyber criminals apparently broke into the systems at one or more businesses in Russia and installed malicious software.Diebold learned of
Published on: March 19th, 2009 Robert McMillan @itbusinessca
When you think of technology security scams, you think of dangers to your PC more often than dangers to your pocketbook. In this story, we address tools such as the free Amazon PriceWatch
Published on: January 28th, 2009 Andrew Brandt @itbusinessca
It may seem bizarre now, but talking to a computer about your service questions will be par for the course in the near future, an expert says.And this ability will dramatically improve many
After all these years I am willing to admit that Microsoft has won the desktop and server wars. Thanks to VMWare Windows is spreading throughout the datacenter. And, of course, there is only
Published on: July 11th, 2008 Richard Stennon @itbusinessca
A Canadian firm says it can help the healthcare industry cut down prescription errors and improve patient-pharmacist contact by installing automated pill dispensing kiosks at doctors' offices, clinics, drugs stores and hospitals.PharmaTrust, a
Published on: May 7th, 2008 Nestor Arellano @itbusinessca
Merchants offering customers Interac Direct Payment (IDP) to facilitate sales can now get computer chip technology machines to help guard against fraud, but industry insiders say using common sense is still the best
