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whitepaper 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]
whitepaper The standard comprises a set of directives for entities that handle credit cards, with the goal of reducing fraud. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) is a global standard governed by the major credit card companies.
[10 May 2008]
whitepaper As fraud and identity theft becomes more prevalent, businesses that record calls must adhere to the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards to prevent recorded transactions from becoming a target.
[09 May 2008]
whitepaper 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...
[09 May 2008]
whitepaper The primary purpose of this standard is to protect credit card data by reducing fraud and theft. Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Diner's Club, Discover, and JCB collaborated to create a new set of standards based on CISP (Cardholder Information...
[07 May 2008]
whitepaper 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.
[06 May 2008]
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]
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]
whitepaper 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]
whitepaper 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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
whitepaper 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]
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]
whitepaper 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]
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]
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 them among the first people to have the...
[25 Jan 2008]
Comment For instance, online retailers and payment processors use geolocation to detect possible credit card fraud by comparing the user's location with the billing address on the account or the shipping address provided, or identifying known IP addresses...
[09 Jan 2008]
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