Archive for September, 2020
With National Cyber Security Month upon us in three days, now seems like a good time to revisit the topic of cyber fraud. But rather than focus on the technically proficient cyber-criminal, today I shall focus on people who unwittingly obtain undeserved credits and refunds, aka friendly fraud. Friendly fraud Memory, or, rather, the lack […]
It has become something of a journalistic fad for reporters to invite hackers to, well, hack them. Without exception, they emerge shaken by two observations: Just how vulnerable they are; and just how much sensitive data they’d forgotten about that awaited discovery. TIME reporter Joel Stein is one of the latest to give it a […]
Like the rest of the world, I’m delighted with Citi’s announcing Jane Fraser as its next CEO. Still, as is often the case with great news, irony underlies the announcement. We are, after all, commemorating the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment. One would have hoped that by now “major bank names female CEO” would be […]
I am the first to admit that when it comes names of commemorative months, National Cyber Security Awareness Month isn’t the sexiest. Reducing it to the initialism NCSAM makes it easier to write, but not easier to pronounce—En-see-sam? Nik-sam? Ink-sam?—and it it doesn’t help in the sexiness department, either. Perhaps that’s why, even though NCSAM has been […]
Here’s how PYMNTS.com describes Walmart Plus*, Walmart’s new delivery program, set to debut tomorrow: For $98 annually or $12.95 a month, members will receive unlimited, same-day free delivery, Scan & Go on the Walmart app that allows customers to scan their items as they shop and pay with Walmart Pay for quick and touch-free payments […]