Robert McGarvey

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  Threat of the Week: DDoS Back at You

  By Robert McGarvey  |  May 20, 2013

  “We have no defenses against large-scale DDoS. None." The threats might not always be so idle.

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  5 Things You Don’t Know Because You Weren’t at Finovate

  By Robert McGarvey  |  May 17, 2013

  Google Wallet all but dead, picture pay shows promise and more emerge from Finovate's spring show in San Francisco.

• Onsite Coverage: Finovate Crowns the Winners

  By Robert McGarvey  |  May 16, 2013

  SAN FRANCISCO — Five take best of show, including one well-known credit union vendor, MoneyDesktop.

• Onsite Coverage: No Clear Winners at Finovate Day 2

  By Robert McGarvey  |  May 16, 2013

  SAN FRANCISCO — Winner or loser at financial technology show? Depends on who you ask.

• Onsite Coverage: New Security Tools Take Finovate Stage in Numbers

  By Robert McGarvey  |  May 15, 2013

  SAN FRANCISCO — Spring new technology show no longer dominated by rewards programs and mobile payment startups.

• Credit Union Branches to Go on the Endangered Species List?

  By Robert McGarvey  |  May 15, 2013

  The one clear fact in the raging debate about the role of branches for credit unions is that the voices are getting louder on both sides, with some insisting that clinging to branches is strangling the industry’s profitability while others say that the personalization is what makes credit unions different.

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  Print Preview: Will We Soon See the Last Branch Standing?

  By Robert McGarvey  |  May 9, 2013

  This preview from next week's print edition takes another look at the possible fate of bricks-and-mortar branching.

• Hackers Force California's Clearpath FCU Offline

  By Robert McGarvey  |  May 9, 2013

  Credit union's online banking host forced to shut site down when it was taken over and used for attacks on other sites.

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  Core War Battlefield So Far Produces No Clear Victor

  By Robert McGarvey  |  May 8, 2013

  Somebody is winning. Somebody is losing. Just don’t expect an easy to decipher who will win the battle in this update on the credit union core systems war.

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  Mobility Matters: Getting to Mobile Banking 2.0

  By Robert McGarvey  |  May 6, 2013

  Unified apps, locked-down security, and the scramble is on to get there.