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FATF Guidelines on Virtual Currencies The FATF has published a paper on Guidance for Virtual Currencies. http://www.fatf-gafi.org/media/fatf/documents/reports/Guidance-RBA-Virtual-Currencies.pdf [...]

Travel and Illness Last year I covered 174,500 miles and went around the globe not once but twice. I hate to say this but gut disruption will always be part of the game of travel. Different [...]

Big Data on Fraud Whether it be security fraud, insurance fraud, billing fraud, or even unemployment fraud, big data and our ability to crunch big data is an important tool. As so much is not [...]

Green Cars Are Not That Green I was asked by one of my daughters “How much better is an electric vehicle over a gas engine? Dad what is your favorite green car?” A good question for a young lady [...]

Effective Mobile Security in the Post-Snowden Era The revelation in October 2013 that the US National Security had monitored the mobile phone calls of Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel [...]

FinCEN wants Natural Persons The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), has proposing rules under the Bank Secrecy Act to clarify and strengthen customer due diligence requirements for: [...]

Wireless Security Systems Can Be Hacked There has been a recent flurry of articles on wireless computers and computer security but it has come to light, with very little surprise that wireless [...]

Uber The recent slap down of Uber in Germany was prompted by the taxi monopoly.  The monopoly granted to the taxi drivers by the regulators is threatened by this application of ride sharing.  The [...]

A Fiber Optic Cable Was Cut It was a short trip through Northern California. During the three days my cell phone did not work and twice in two different cities the restaurant took our credit card [...]

Cell Phone Vulnerabilities What Cell Phone OS is most vulnerable -­‐ From Phys.org (edited) Good news! Android OS has around 80% of the total market share. This is in part due to price and the [...]