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Round-Up In a statement, anti-fraud minister James Plaskitt said: "This positive and encouraging news from the pilots shows that this technology is helping to combat benefit fraud. A lie detector test that has slashed benefit fraud by more than £330,000 is...
[09 May 2008]
News In a statement, anti-fraud minister James Plaskitt said: "This positive and encouraging news from the pilots shows that this technology is helping to combat benefit fraud. A lie detector test that has slashed benefit fraud by more than £330,000 is...
[07 May 2008]
News Sandra Quinn, director of communications at Apacs, said in a statement: "Although online banking fraud losses fell last year the fraudsters clearly aren't giving up. Online banking fraud losses decreased a third from £33.5m in 2006 to £22.6m in...
[16 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Because viruses spread, hackers find it easier to compromise business computers, identity theft is better enabled and computer fraud is easier to perpetrate. Anti-virus technology fails to prevent computers from virus infections.
[11 Apr 2008]
whitepaper As a successful and lucrative form of financial fraud, phishing made its mark on the networked landscape in 2004. In January of 2004, there were 174 phishing Web sites identified by the cross-vendor Anti-Phishing Working Group.
[28 Feb 2008]
Comment Criminals are increasingly targeting individuals in cases of financial fraud rather than businesses. Over the past 12 months, leading UK banks such as Barclays have been successful in reducing online fraud.
[27 Feb 2008]
News The attacks could mark the emergence of a new threat from the Storm botnet, according to a report from security company RSA's Anti-Fraud Command Center (AFCC). Leading UK banks have been targeted by online criminals who used Storm botnets to...
[15 Feb 2008]
Comment Geolocation technology is coming into wider use, moving away from its origins as an anti-fraud measure. Although the internet was once considered borderless, businesses are recognising that understanding the location of their web visitors has an...
[09 Jan 2008]
News Lie detector beats benefit fraud Anti-plagiarism tech traps cheating students The year was dominated by stories about government-held personal data, whether that was ID information or what people choose to throw away.
[19 Dec 2007]
News The society now has assets worth £4.4bn and like all banks is a potential target for fraud and money laundering. Newcastle Building Society is about to implement an anti-money-laundering (AML) system to comply with FSA regulations and ensure...
[11 Dec 2007]
Comment It is unlikely SaaS delivery models will appeal to large global banks that can gain greater economies of scale by adopting a holistic approach to their programmes for fraud risk and compliance. But even in this case, vendors have recently completed...
[01 Nov 2007]
News Financial risk management specialist Experian has launched an account-checking service in an effort to cut direct debit and credit fraud. Brooker said since the banking community has concentrated on reducing credit card fraud, fraudsters have moved...
[03 Oct 2007]
News Instances of 'pump 'n' dump' financial fraud spam has plummeted from 50 per cent of all spam in February to just five per cent today. Bradley Antsis, director of product management at Marshal, said the joint efforts of financial regulators and anti...
[22 Jun 2007]
whitepaper These factors often lead to some confusion about what a particular anti-spam (or anti-fraud or anti-virus) solution may or may not do. This paper demystifies the anti-spam market and its various choices and buzzwords to help you cut through the...
[30 May 2007]
News Researchers from internet fraud prevention company MarkMonitor said the sharp increase was in part due to phishers putting large numbers of phishing site URLs on the same domain, a tactic first seen last autumn.
[25 May 2007]
whitepaper 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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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