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RSS card fraudPCI Data Security Standard: SSO - Strong Authentication - Physical/Logical Security Convergence
White Paper Despite the best efforts of organizations to protect customer data, consumer fraud and identity theft have hit new highs. During the last ten years there has been an explosion in the use of Internet-based commerce, as well as a drastic increase in... [13 May 2008]
PCI Compliance: The Importance of Securing Payment Information
White Paper Fraud and identity theft are on the rise. The Federal Trade Commission received more than 685,000 complaints of fraud and identity theft in 2005, totaling more than $680 million in stolen assets. This effort resulted in the Payment Card Industry... [13 May 2008]
PCI DSS Compliance: A Difficult But Necessary Journey
White Paper This standard is a set of network security requirements agreed upon by five of the major credit card companies in an attempt to stem the growth of credit card fraud around the world and to give a common interpretation of what security is all about. [16 Apr 2008]
UK businesses: No one cares about cyber attacks!
News Virus-related equipment failure or data loss affected 19 per cent of businesses surveyed, credit card fraud affected 11 per cent, theft of PC/laptop eight per cent, hacking seven per cent and four per cent or less were affected by unauthorised... [09 Apr 2008]
UK a hotbed for cyber crime
News The most commonly reported crime was auction fraud but they also included non-delivery of purchases, credit/debit card fraud, computer intrusions, spam or unsolicited email and child pornography.silicon.com has won widespread support for its e... [08 Apr 2008]
AMS Case Study: Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
White Paper Project results demonstrate that using Identicate - along with supporting outside data Sources - has helped PENNDOT improve its ability to accurately identify Pennsylvania license applicants and reduce fraud. [04 Apr 2008]
Increased Online Revenues With Secure and User-Friendly e-Commerce Shopping Site for the Largest Retail Network in the UK
White Paper The application is intricately integrated with multiple payment gateways, fraud detection and prevention systems, and third party applications. MindTree Consulting built a robust online shopping basket and an integrated Travel Money Card product... [27 Mar 2008]
Police chief: Cyber crime is everywhere
News Lemon warned that the internet was fuelling a rise in global credit card fraud and that the UK and the US were the targets. Her warning came as payment clearing industry body Apacs released figures showing that £532.2m was lost to card fraud in... [19 Mar 2008]
Editor's Blog: An everyday tale of e-crime
Comment Identity fraud and cybercrime are of course difficult to investigate and because of the way they regularly cross international boundaries it's hard to get a conviction. A bit of credit card statement checking later, it became clear that his... [13 Mar 2008]
Card fraud up by a quarter to £535m
News Card fraud rose by 25 per cent in 2007, according to the latest figures from payment clearing industry body Apacs. Apacs said £535.2m was lost to card fraud overall last year, due mainly to stolen UK card details used in countries yet to upgrade to... [12 Mar 2008]
Editor's Blog: Lords above!
Comment Their other suggestions included increasing resources for the police to deal with internet-based crime, and allowing victims of online card fraud to report to the police - rather than to the banks which seem reluctant to act in many cases. [27 Feb 2008]
PCI DSS Compliance: An Overview
White Paper Criminals have become more skillful having discovered that there is a significant amount of money to be acquired with very little risk and as such, credit card fraud and identity theft have become much more common place in recent years. [24 Feb 2008]
Lords take fresh look at data security
News Other recommendations ignored included increasing resources and skills for the police to deal with internet-based crime and the reversal of the requirement that victims of online card fraud report the crime to their banks rather than to the police. [22 Feb 2008]
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Internet Miscreants
White Paper This paper studies an active underground economy which specializes in the commoditization of activities such as credit card fraud, identity theft, spamming, phishing, online credential theft, and the sale of compromised hosts. [14 Feb 2008]
Editor's Blog: Another blow to identity fraudsters
Comment For years the government has been telling us that it is so worried about the menace of identity fraud that it wants to spend £5bn on identity cards that will apparently protect us. Yet strangely it has ignored calls to tighten up on data protection... [06 Feb 2008]
