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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]
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. While overall card fraud is falling, instances of online fraud are rocketing, according to UK payment association Apacs. [24 Dec 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]
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]
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]
Brampton Factor: Data theft a warning
Comment Fraud has been endemic ever since exchange began. We should not be too surprised that fraud now seems endemic to the digital world. Talk of data theft has often focused on faceless criminals grabbing credit card details or emptying bank accounts. [22 Nov 2006]
Analysis: E-tailer credit card cover-up - California dreamin'?
Comment At that time, as we put in calls to find out what the exact problem was, we felt like it was the bad old days of secrecy about online fraud. The next day we revealed that UK holders of MasterCard cards from Morgan Stanley, and its Goldfish credit... [10 May 2006]
Leader: Should we now doubt chip and PIN?
Leader Never mind the fact that fraud has fallen since chip and PIN was introduced. But the stats suggest over-the-counter payments are more robustly protected by chip and PIN than by a signature, and typically present a more profitable target for... [09 May 2006]
Leader: Clock is ticking for e-banking security
Leader Barclays Bank has announced it's doing similar fraud checks for online transactions. By looking at the behaviour of customers who move money and buy things over the internet, the bank believes it can cut the level of fraud. [27 Mar 2006]
Opinion: What a year it's been for e-crime
Comment Among them was the tax credit fraud fiasco that resulted from the theft of the identities and personal details of almost 13,000 staff at the Department for Work and Pensions and Network Rail. Most recently we've seen large international banks and... [15 Mar 2006]
Leader: Shoppers ain't James Bond
Leader On the one side they want faster, more convenient ways for customers to pay - but on the other they need to tighten security and crack down on fraud. Banks and credit card companies are being pulled in two directions. [14 Mar 2006]
Leader: Government sums don't add up
Leader Then today silicon.com revealed serious inaccuracies in the Home Office's bold claims, which were plastered all over the national media, that ID fraud costs the UK economy a whopping £1.7bn a year. Scary stuff at first glance but there appears to... [02 Feb 2006]
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