Computer technology elevated finance and banking into powerful heights, but not without the shadow of cyber security vulnerabilities – here discussed in their fundamental depth: the issues of fraud, complexity, and identity management; the increased reliance on robust encryption, the need for online strangers to conduct a secure dialog, the risk of erosive cryptographic intractability, the weapon of equivocation – durable security, and the way the emerging form of money – being purely digital bits – exploits, and rides these parameters into a brave new world, serving our global village and interconnected humanity.