SWIFT — The Not So Secure Financial Network

Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
6 min readAug 30, 2018

Where there’s money, you will find criminals, and the SWIFT network is often a target for those who want to get rich quick. There are thus few crimes that have such a high financial reward, and for such little chance of being caught. While SWIFT has provided a way for us to integrate our banking infrastructure over the world, it has been an increasing targeted hacks, and a recent one on 13 August 2018 focused on…

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE

Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. Based in Edinburgh. Old World Breaker. New World Creator. Building trust.