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Beyond the vault: Who's responsible for what banking sites share?

Banks spend heavily to convince customers they are the most careful custodians of personal and financial data.

Our review of 14 financial-services websites across Europe and the US found otherwise: tracking and personalization scripts embedded in account-opening, mortgage, and loan-application flows sent contact details, financial intent, and device fingerprints to third parties, with 9 of the 14 sites doing so without a valid consent choice in place.

Head of Security Research at Jscrambler.

The failures fall into three patterns, and the distinction between them matters legally.

First, tags fired before the cookie banner had been answered at all, on wealth-management, investment-banking, and payment-provider sites; under the EU's ePrivacy Directive, that behavior never had a lawful basis, since consent is required before anything is stored on or read from a device.

Second, tracking continued after a user actively rejected cookies: at one site, GoogleAds and DoubleClick still received the...

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The Hidden Risks Behind High Staking and DeFi Yields

I used to treat staking and DeFi dashboards like a bank rate board. A card said 8% or 40%, I compared the numbers, and I moved on. That habit broke the first time a high APY farm paid mostly in a thin reward token while the fee line under it

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The Hidden Costs of Apache Spark: Why Architecture Matters More Than Compute

Why adding executors rarely fixes the most expensive Spark problems A slow Spark job is often treated as a sizing problem: add executors, increase memory, raise shuffle partitions, and try again. That can hide the real issue. The expensive failures I see in Spark architectures usually come from unnecessary shuffles,

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How Tokenized Stocks Could Reshape Wall Street's Global Power

For decades, Wall Street operated on a simple premise: the U.S. financial system not only produced the world’s most sought-after public companies, but also controlled the infrastructure through which investors around the globe gained access to them. A company would list on Nasdaq or the NYSE, work with

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Changing Your IPAM Should Not Rewrite Every Deployment

Suppose a network team moves authoritative IPAM data from NetBox to Nautobot. The deployment still needs the same thing it needed yesterday: trusted prefix and inventory data before it creates infrastructure. Yet operation definitions across the environment now need editing because they all say requires_authority: netbox. That migration should

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The Hidden Risks Behind High Staking and DeFi Yields

The Hidden Costs of Apache Spark: Why Architecture Matters More Than Compute

How Tokenized Stocks Could Reshape Wall Street's Global Power

Changing Your IPAM Should Not Rewrite Every Deployment