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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. The Naked CIO: Identity crisis A bit of credit card statement checking later...
[13 Mar 2008]
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]
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]
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. If the government is as worried about identity fraud as it claims...
[06 Feb 2008]
Round-Up So nothing that could raise any risk of serious identity fraud. The wispy goatees of the National Union of Students (NUS) officers were quivering with rage as they described the revelation in the leaked National Identity Scheme Delivery Strategy...
[25 Jan 2008]
Comment In 2006, internet fraud reached £154.4m, accounting for 73 per cent of card-not-present fraud. But losses from online fraud continue to rise. However, the security needed to stop fraud outside the firewall may be a tougher challenge still.
[24 Dec 2007]
Comment The analyst firm warns web 2.0 applications could herald widespread identity theft and transaction fraud, give malware a new infection super highway, erode social networks and eventually create a total consumer loss of confidence in the web platform.
[26 Nov 2007]
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]
AS Profile With online crime and fraud on the rise, Microsoft's Vista incorporates a lot of the technology that Cameron has been overseeing and which is being promoted as a major advantage of the new operating system.
[12 Oct 2007]
Leader It's the same thing with identity fraud - although here for fuel you have sensitive personal data, for oxygen you have the easy access to that information, and for heat - bad guys. A big part of the identity fraud problem is down to a lack of...
[08 Oct 2007]
Comment And at a time of extreme data sensitivity, with identity theft and fraud rife, you'd think its importance would have sunk in. Paul Bentham explains how this is not just about malicious hacking and has more to do with systems design and process...
[13 Sep 2007]
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]
Comment This lack of accountability risks eroding customer trust in the use of online services such as e-tailing and internet banking in the UK, while the cost of identity fraud continues to rise. While the customers had to go through the trouble of...
[16 Jul 2007]
Round-Up Marks & Sparks duly responded by informing all staff and offering free credit checks for those employees worried about potential identity theft and fraud - though there is currently no reason to believe the laptop was stolen with this purpose in...
[11 May 2007]
Comment Their membership is geographically dispersed and multinational, and their main goal is the exploitation of the internet to steal personal data and identities to facilitate fraud. It's largely about protecting identity - the Achilles heel of the...
[07 Mar 2007]
Leader In it Blair argues ID cards will help secure the UK's borders and tackle fraud, crime and terrorism. He also let slip that the government will allow police to check every fingerprint held on the National Identity Register to try and solve crimes.
[20 Feb 2007]
Round-Up So far the Met has declined to state whether the data on the laptops was encrypted and as a precaution the force has consulted payment industry association Apacs - as well credit rating agencies and Cifas, the UK's fraud prevention service - just...
[24 Nov 2006]
Leader In this post-Enron era the prosecution and punishment of perpetrators of white collar crime and corporate fraud is something still high on the agenda for the US authorities. High-profile sentences include 25 years for former WorldCom boss Bernie...
[22 Nov 2006]
Round-Up The UK is suffering a fraud epidemic it would seem. You see there has been a 55 per cent increase in online fraud and a 37 per cent hike in card fraud, according to stats released this week by payment industry body Apacs.
[10 Nov 2006]
Comment Next year's e-Crime Congress in London will focus on identity theft and the BBC reported this week that phishing has caused a rise in the amount of money lost to online banking fraud in the first half of this year.
[08 Nov 2006]
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