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RSS anti-fraudAnti-Phishing: Best Practices for Institutions and Consumers
White Paper Phishing differs from traditional scams primarily in the scale of the fraud that can be committed. Con artists have been around for centuries, but e-mail and the World Wide Web provide them with the tools to reach thousands or millions of potential... [16 May 2007]
ID cards to cost more than £5.5bn
News The government estimates the use of false identity information currently costs the UK more than £1.7bn per year and the ID scheme will make it much more difficult for such fraud to occur. But Booth said the government's £1.7bn cost estimate for... [10 May 2007]
Barclays doles out 500,000 chip and PIN devices
News Barclays is the first organisation in the UK to roll out chip and PIN terminals to its customers and already offers an SMS text-alert payment confirmation system and anti-keystroke logging technology to combat potential fraud. [18 Apr 2007]
ID fraud reports rocket
News The internet is helping criminal gangs to coordinate their activities and steal personal details to perpetrate identity fraud. Financial information firm Experian was contacted by 2,124 new victims of ID fraud in the second half of 2006, a rise of... [12 Apr 2007]
The biggest VoIP security threats - and how to stop them
Comment But while a number of threats exist, three stand out as the most dangerous, particularly to smaller organisations: denial of service, spit and fraud. Though they are likely to be more of a menace to consumers than to businesses, fraud techniques... [22 Mar 2007]
Chip and PIN goes undercover
News Chip and PIN has been blamed for making ID theft easier, as checkout staff in shops are less vigilant about transactions because of the new anti-fraud technology, according to a leading criminologist. [29 Jan 2007]
ID theft targeted by web search service
News James Van Dyke, president of Javelin Strategy & Research, which studies fraud, said: "There is a significant amount of personal information traded in the dark corners of the online world, and companies such as TrustedID could allow the consumer to... [24 Jan 2007]
PayPal users to get pass-code device
News This by no means is a silver bullet that is going to stop fraud. eBay is getting ready to offer its PayPal users a password-generating key fob that promises to increase the security of the online payment service. [12 Jan 2007]
UK suffering fraud boom-time
News The number of phishing scams in the UK has escalated by 1,471 per cent in the last 12 months, the latest fraud figures from the UK payments association APACS revealed. And this had contributed to an overall hike of 55 per cent in all incidences of... [07 Nov 2006]
US court upholds anti-spam law
News Virginia state attorney general Bob McDonnell said in a statement: "Online fraud is a costly and serious crime. The Virginia Court of Appeals upheld a state anti-spam law on Tuesday by affirming the conviction of the first person in the US to face... [07 Sep 2006]
Banks fight e-fraudsters with two-factor authentication
News Barclays already offers an SMS text-alert payment confirmation system and anti-keytroke logging technology to combat potential fraud. We're confident that this will cut fraud. Apacs said online banking fraud is a growing problem. [05 Sep 2006]
Sainsbury's banks £3.5m on ATM security
News Sainsbury’s Bank head of channels Kevin Barrett said cash machine fraud is a "growing problem" that the bank is taking "very seriously". Research from banking industry body Apacs, found that cash machine fraud during the first three months of 2006... [30 Aug 2006]
Anti-fraud tech added to food safety docs
News The British Retail Consortium (BRC) is urging the organisations which carry out audits for its standards programme to start using digital signatures in a bid to protect the scheme against fraud. But as these can be vulnerable to fraud (by people... [15 Aug 2006]
Is chip and PIN really a success?
News They say while more than 150 chip and PIN transactions are processed every second counterfeit card fraud in 2005 was cut by nearly £60m - a drop of 24 per cent compared to 2004. Of course it hasn't eradicated fraud - it never could. [15 Aug 2006]
Google reveals click fraud data
News A report submitted in a court case last week concluded that Google's anti-click fraud efforts are "reasonable". Responding to concerns about click fraud in the online-ad industry, Google made changes to its AdWords system late on Tuesday to reveal... [26 Jul 2006]
