Stories about: NAB

Australian banks are lukewarm about a domain name proposal which aims to cut down on data phishing.

Back in 2001 Peter Piper picked a pack of Privacy Principles, but thus far no one's found themselves in much of a pickle.

Regulatory requirements like Sarbanes-Oxley, BASEL II and HIPAA were designed to improve governance and security within the enterprise, but at some companies they appear to be doing just the opposite.

Australia's banking industry is under threat due to a heavy reliance on Single Socket Layer (SSL) encryption that hackers increasingly find their way around.

Australia's big four banks are a house divided over the introduction of biometrics identifiers to control fraud, with the National Australia Bank pouring cold water on the introduction of fingerprint identification for its customers.

Australia will not follow the lead of the US by introducing stiffer data protection laws to safeguard sensitive information held by companies despite compelling recent evidence of a thriving black market trade in the personal data of Australians.

Australian banks are struggling to contain the fallout of a serious credit card breach which exposed 40 million account holders last month.

The National Australia Bank is giving its online banking users access to two-factor ID in an effort to combat online fraud which the Australian Banking Association estimates costs the industry $25 million annually.

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission will next month implement a prototype resulting from a software research project that has improved detection of online investment scams nearly ten-fold.