anti-fraud in comment and analysis
The Weekly Round-Up: 09.05.08
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]
Why no united front on cyber crime?
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]
Geography lessons for online retailers
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]
On-demand software can help banks avoid fines
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]
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]
Banks aiming to alleviate online banking fears
Comment Although other banks are already using similar anti-fraud techniques, the announcement shows how financial companies are now working hard to convince customers online banking is safe. This was the latest in a spate of moves from high street banks... [28 Mar 2006]
Leader: Don't be fooled by Blair's "cardboard" ID compromise
Leader The government is very much still planning to try and force through its original flawed and costly ID cards plans - as evidenced by the broad definition of ID fraud used by the Home Office last week to back up their claim that it costs the UK... [10 Feb 2006]
Leader: Keep ahead of the fraudsters
Leader Chip and PIN is a great leap forward in anti-fraud technology. Another danger is that fraudsters have been quick to change tactics and start committing card-not-present fraud. No one wants to cheer a crackdown on fraud in one area, only to see it... [07 Feb 2006]
Leader: Game over for insurance fraud?
Leader And if they can (and yes it's a big if) pass that back to the consumers, then anti-fraud technologies may benefit us all. If insurers can cut out fraud - which can be found in as many as one in five claims - they should be able to reduce their costs. [22 Nov 2005]
Leader: Chip and PIN won't solve the fraud problem
Leader It's great news that chip and PIN is stopping fraud on the high street, as shown by the latest figures. In the UK banks have started to dabble with more secure approaches, such as the trial of an anti-phishing hardware device kicked off by Lloyds... [08 Nov 2005]
Leader: Careful with that customer data
Leader Earlier this week the CEO of credit card giant Visa announced that his company is investing $200m into 'anti-fraud measures' in a bid to get tough on scammers and card thieves. Firstly, Visa and other financial services firms must be experiencing... [07 Oct 2005]
Leader: Why India scandal isn't a case of 'told you so'
Leader One anti-fraud expert within a UK bank unaffected by this scandal explained that his company makes all call centre staff go through a strict initiation - a particular feature of which is an exercise where they are confronted with graphic images of... [23 Jun 2005]
Leader: RFID - not if, but when
Leader As the EU working party admits there are myriad possibilities for abuse of RFID, from invasive marketing to outright fraud and human tracking. If you can convince the anti-RFID campaigners your rollout plan is sound and has all the right safeguards... [25 Feb 2005]
Opinion: A bad case of worms
Comment To illustrate this growing enthusiasm for online fraud, the Anti-Phishing Working Group reported there were 6,597 new, unique phishing email messages in October 2004, compared to 2,158 such messages in August. [21 Dec 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: Dangerous technology, Sun's one and search engine shenanigans
Comment In particular, there is no audit trail so you can't detect fraud and you can't comply with corporate governance requirements. A third dangerous thing is anti-spam software. The danger with anti-spam software is that you end up throwing out the baby... [16 Feb 2004]
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