This just landed in my inbox: more proof, if it were needed, that banks are dumber than a sack of nails when it comes to security. Or they just don’t care: The email comes ostensibly from HSBC’s Singapore office. But it’s actually mailed by 8rewardsroad.com, a Singapore-based marketing company with a somewhat dodgy website. (As… Read More »
I’m always amazed at how much money companies sink into sparkling advertising and PR, but so little into ensuring the emails their staff send and receive reflect the same sheen. Especially when they call themselves the “world’s local bank”. Take this recent email exchange with HSBC. I’m a customer, and sometimes use their Premier lounge… Read More »
(Update: corrected a few things. You can’t see the person’s bank account number. But you can see anyone’s phone bill, whether or not they’re a customer of that bank.) — Here’s a hole in Internet banking that allows anyone with an account at a bank to look up other customers’ people’s bills–tax, water bill, Internet… Read More »
This piece was written for a commentary on the BBC World Service Business Daily about Jerry Yang’s decision to resign as CEO. Back in the early days of the World Wide Web there was really only one name. Yahoo. You could tell it was big because it was what you’d type in your browser to… Read More »
Thought I’d offer a brief history of the financial crisis as seen through Google Insights, which measures the popularity of a search term over time. Interest in the word subprime spiked a couple of times in 2007 (above) before we figured out it was all about toxic debts (below): and credit crunches: Then we realised… Read More »