card fraud in comment and analysis
Dear silicon.com: Games skills gap, student outsourcing, ID card fears
Comment Fraud is costing billions now and so waiting for an unreliable ID card system for years is not a good option. These cards will not deter fraud crimes such as identity fraud. I reckon that by the time there are 10 million prints on the database... [27 Jun 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]
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]
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]
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 them among the first people to have the... [25 Jan 2008]
Geography lessons for online retailers
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]
Locking down financial security
Comment In 2006, internet fraud reached £154.4m, accounting for 73 per cent of card-not-present fraud. Overall card-not-present fraud is expected to rise again in 2007. While overall card fraud is falling, instances of online fraud are rocketing, according... [24 Dec 2007]
Can biometrics secure the public's data?
Comment Despite tough criticism, the government argues the scheme will make identity fraud much harder. Ministers claim it could help to kerb illegal immigration, stop large-scale financial fraud - anyone trying to make a big financial transaction would... [23 Nov 2007]
Escape the data management minefield
Comment And at a time of extreme data sensitivity, with identity theft and fraud rife, you'd think its importance would have sunk in. In a recent case Newcastle City Council's computer systems allowed the download of 54,000 customer credit card records. [13 Sep 2007]
Dear silicon.com... DNA database, lie detector tech, sat-nav blunders...
Comment Lie detector beats benefit fraud The same amount of benefit fraud would probably have been picked up by investigating claims at random --- and could have saved more because they wouldn't have parted with a substantial payment for unproven technology. [07 Sep 2007]
Steve Ranger's Notebook: Don't let sleeping data dogs lie
Comment Until, that is, you discover someone has used your details in an identity fraud. What if your credit card details, address, date of birth, bank account data - everything about you that an identity thief could possibly want - were stolen by hackers... [04 Sep 2007]
Data breach laws 'make companies serious about security'
Comment California's data breach law has forced organisations to take data security seriously - and has given consumers the tools to protect themselves against fraud, according to one of the architects of the legislation. [03 Sep 2007]
Leader: Is it safer to hide cash under your mattress?
Leader Under our noses, banks have now taken on the responsibility for card fraud reporting - arguably like giving an alcoholic the keys to the liquor cabinet and telling him to look after the whiskey. High street banks are having a bit of a tough time of... [21 Jun 2007]
Go real-time with your data
Comment Financial organisations dependent on time-sensitive applications - such as credit card fraud detection - are demanding and willing to pay for very low latency access. Virgin Megastore, for example, has implemented a loss prevention solution from... [15 Mar 2007]
VoIP threats to watch out for
Comment Just as in the email world, tipping dodgy stock and flogging Viagra is only part of spit, it can also be used to commit serious fraud. A US fraud case in 2006 heard how hackers broke into VoIP service providers' systems using the common 'brute... [09 Mar 2007]
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