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Criminals hack chip and PIN terminals
News The discovery was made by specialist card fraud police unit, the Dedicated Cheque and Plastic Crime Unit (DCPU), when it raided a sophisticated counterfeit card factory in Birmingham.... [14 Aug 2008]
Photos: Sniffing out fraud with digital forensics
Photo The digital forensics unit (DFU) of the Serious Fraud Office sniffs out incriminating evidence from crime scenes. The DFU uses about 60 per cent of its 300TB storage, which is spread over two floors of the Serious... [13 Aug 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.01.08
Round-Up So nothing that could raise any risk of serious identity fraud. According to the leaked information, teenagers may need an ID card to open a bank account or take out a student loan from 2010 - making... [25 Jan 2008]
Top 10 government IT stories of the year
News Lie detector beats benefit fraud In August, the Identity and Passport Service's (IPS) Framework Procurement was published in the Official Journal of the European Union, inviting potential suppliers to pitch for the... [19 Dec 2007]
Missing: 25 million child benefit records
News Darling said no individual will suffer any financial loss if they are innocent victims of fraud as a result of this security breach. He also called on the government to abandon its ID card plans because... [20 Nov 2007]
Web security breach exposes 54,000 card details
News Newcastle City Council claims there is no indication of any fraud on the affected cards. Newcastle City Council CEO Ian Stratford added in a statement: "We very much regret that this situation has developed, although we... [27 Jul 2007]
Snatched laptop puts 40,000 at risk of ID fraud
News Such complaints, which include credit card fraud, bank fraud, as well as phone and utilities fraud, accounted for 36 per cent of the total 674,354 complaints submitted... [10 Apr 2007]
Chip and PIN hack attack demoed
News He claimed the fraud would be difficult for police to trace, as the victim might only notice once they received a bank statement. They would need to remember where they were when the fraud occurred, as... [06 Feb 2007]
Re:Viewing 2006: The year in security
News And bearing in mind the 'insider job' is still the commonest form of corporate fraud there is room for improvement there. With increasing amounts of information available and easily searchable online, attacks are... [14 Dec 2006]
ID theft 'threatens almost all UK homes'
News More than 21 million UK households are in the firing line of identity fraud as Britons continue to throw away documents that could be useful to rubbish-rummaging fraudsters. These findings coincide with the launch of the... [16 Oct 2006]
Veterans get free ID monitoring in wake of breach
News Mike Cook, a vice president at ID Analytics, said: "You can't detect fraud by looking at one person. This is a gigantic database that contains information from participating credit card companies,... [11 Aug 2006]
Data thief gets eight years in the clink
News According to the US government, however, there is no evidence Levine used the data for identity fraud. Acxiom says it operates the world's largest repository of consumer data, and counts major banks, credit... [23 Feb 2006]
MasterCard scandal: Worst data theft ever?
News The security breach at the company was discovered using tools that monitor for credit card fraud, MasterCard said. This information could be used for credit card fraud... [20 Jun 2005]
Opinion: Like it or not, here come ID cards
Comment Despite all this, government appears determined to bulldoze its identity card bill through a parliament that does not fully share the Prime Minister's conviction that such cards will achieve a dramatic impact on... [31 May 2005]
ID card and biometric passport roadmap updated
News Cutting fraud by creating an electronic link to birth, marriage and death records to eliminate reliance on paper documentation The UK Passport Service (UKPS) has updated its roadmap for introducing passports... [29 Mar 2005]
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