by Schehrezade Davidson | Jan 1, 2010 | Banking, Retail, Trends
The FBI is advising small businesses – the same ones often operating on a shoestring – to use a dedicated PC for their online banking. It would seem that hackers are targeting small businesses, universities, and local businesses with keylogging malware...
by Schehrezade Davidson | Dec 30, 2009 | Usability
We all think we’re pretty observant people. We notice things that are important to us – a friend’s new shoes, the boss’ new briefcase. If we sit down with one of those “Spot the difference” puzzles we can find 5 things. In our own...
by Schehrezade Davidson | Dec 23, 2009 | Retail
We’re thinking Blippy may be just a proverbial blip on the radar. The passive social networking site (meaning, it updates your status for you) tells your friends how much you’re spending, and where. It updates a twitter-like status about your credit card...
by Schehrezade Davidson | Dec 18, 2009 | Usability
Don’t you know that December is a great time to blog? There are end of year reviews, predictions for the next year, holiday hubub – this stuff nearly writes itself. Speaking of which, Earl Perkins at Gartner put up an interesting question the other week...
by Schehrezade Davidson | Dec 18, 2009 | Banking
CA, Inc. issued a report last week detailing the top security threats of 2009, as well as predictions for 2010. What’s surprising? Fake or rogue security software was the most prevalent threat of 2008. It seems criminals know that we as a population have a...