Priceyourmeal.com – Ebay for Restaurant Meals

new eBay style website, www.priceyourmeal.com, has been launched in Edinburgh that allows diners to bid against each other for meals at top local restaurants.

Edinburgh’s Malmaison hotel, the Montpellier group which includes Tigerlilly, Opal Lounge and Rick’s and other independents such as First Coast, Vintners Rooms and the Mussel Inn have already signed up to the site. 

Founder Sukhvir Dhillon, 31, from Glasgow, said: “The Edinburgh restaurant scene has experienced a culinary renaissance recently with a variety of different eating styles on offer and priceyourmeal.com will help diners access different types of restaurants. Our website usually spurs people into being more adventurous by trying out places they wouldn’t necessarily go to.”

The Edinburgh launch follows the success of Glasgow-based priceyourmeal.com, where more than12,000 diners have already signed up. Dhillon also plans to expand priceyourmeal.com in London and other major UK cities. 

http://news.scotsman.com/edinburgh.cfm?id=124522007

Biggest Internet fraud case in history

Bank hit by ‘biggest Internet fraud case in history’

Swedish bank Nordea has been hit by what security company McAfee has called the biggest Internet fraud case in history.

Up to £600 000 has been stolen in the past three months from 250 customer accounts. E-mails were sent asking Nordea customers to download a piece of software which they were told was a piece of anti-spam software. In fact it was a piece of software which was activated when customers tried to log into Internet banking with Nordea. Out-Law.com reports that it recorded their login details and asked them to log in again because of a fictional error. It then recorded their second attempt to log in, which would give hackers enough information to access accounts. Security Park reports that police have established that login information was sent to servers in the US and then to Russia. Since then unknown criminals have logged in transferring large amounts from the bank. According to Boo Ehlin, Nordea’s Swedish spokesperson, most of the affected customers did not have antivirus software installed on their computer. Data Monitor reports that this is not the first time that Nordea has been affected by online fraud. The bank, which has 2m Internet banking customers in Sweden alone, was also hit in August 2005, when it was forced to temporarily cease the operations of its online unit after a phishing attack.
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