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UK Watchdog to Require Banks to Publish Data on Service – 28 July 2017
The Financial Conduct Authority has proposed that banks in Britain will now have to publish data quarterly from next year onwards. The move seeks to show the quality of service and boost competition between Banks, and is based on measuring performance based on set criteria.
https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2017/07/25/business/25reuters-britain-banks-regulator.html
$5 million in bogus invoices: ICAC finds former Botany Bay CFO, 11 others, acted corruptly – 28 July 2017
Gary Goodman, former CFO of Botany Bay council and a host of other council members have been found to have acted corruptly by the ICAC, after a public inquiry last year.
The CFO raised over $5 million in fake invoices, and the state watchdog found this corruption extended almost two decades, concluding when Goodman was fired in 2015 following the ICAC investigation.
96,000 Bitcoins stolen from users of shady online bazaar, sheep marketplace – 25 July 2017
The equivalent of sixty-million pounds has been drained from the black-market trading place accounts in the last week, after hackers drained accounts whilst making them appear untouched.
Alastair MacGibbon to talk at AIPI National Conference – 22 July 2017
Alastair MacGibbon, recently appointed head of the Australian Cyber Security Centre, will be the Key Note Speaker for the AIPI National conference to be held at University of Melbourne Law School on 7 September 2017.
The conference will feature presentations from leading practitioners from the Telstra, Australian Federal Police, Australian Taxation Office, Victoria Police, National Australia Bank, McGrathNicol, Equifax, ACORN, QLD police and more.
Topics covered will include bitcoin/cryptocurrency, ransomware, man-in-the-middle scams, identity fraud, advances in forensic IT, data analytics etc and their impact on the prevention, detection, investigation, prosecution and reparation from “Technology Enable Financial Crime”.
https://www.aipi.asn.au/2017/04/18/annual-national-meeting-2017/
