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RSS e-cardOnline banking fraud rockets as fraudsters get smarter
News Losses from online banking fraud hit £39m in the first half of the year, despite a decrease in the overall amount of credit card fraud in the UK. The online fraud statistics go against the overall trend, which has seen a... [07 Oct 2009]
Securing Personally Identifiable Information
White Paper Sensitive information - such as credit card numbers and social security numbers combined with a person's first and last name, (a.k.a. Personally Identifiable Information, or PII) - is everywhere. Employees have easy... [05 Oct 2009]
The Good, Bad and Necessary: The Complete Guide to PCI 6.6 Success
White Paper The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is no different. It seems that IT administrators and security professionals are always receiving notification of new rules, regulations and compliance codes that... [05 Oct 2009]
Actinic Selects GlobalSign for Extended Validation SSL Certificates
White Paper With the increase of e-commerce, organisations and customers alike are faced with ever increasing security threats, for example, phishing attacks, and credit card fraud and identity theft. Founded in... [01 Oct 2009]
HP MFP Smartcard Authenication Solution
White Paper The Common Access Card (CAC) is a United States Department of Defense (DoD) smartcard issued as standard identification for military personnel and contractor personnel. The CAC is used as a general identification... [30 Aug 2009]
All change please: Your train ticket will never be the same again
News The Oyster card is England's biggest smart ticketing system (Photo credit: LoopZilla via Flickr.com under the following Creative Commons licence) Smart ticketing, where a ticket is held on a chip rather than a piece of... [20 Aug 2009]
How Not to Look Like a Phish: Tips to Help Your Organization Minimize False Positives
White Paper Phishing is the criminal act of posing as a legitimate business via digital communications to extract information such as social security numbers, credit card numbers and banking account numbers. Businesses absorb more... [15 Aug 2009]
The Secure Access Using Smart Cards Planning Guide
White Paper Attackers can guess user names, or use such publicly available information as an e-mail address on a business card to identify a user name. Administrators are increasingly aware of the dangers that... [14 Aug 2009]
100 dodgy football ticket sellers shut down by cybercops
News It has also been involved in a major investigation to target a group of suspects using a computer virus to steal money from customers' bank accounts and also made a number of arrests in a card fraud operation that... [10 Aug 2009]
CIOs: How to innovate during a recession
Comment These are the core systems: electronic point-of-sale, warehousing, credit card authorisation etc. Here's a plan for nurturing new ideas in any economic climate. Innovation may not be the obvious top priority in a downturn. [04 Aug 2009]
Soca's cybercrime cops score 21 convictions
News As well as fighting homegrown criminals, Soca also focuses on tackling cybercrime internationally in alliance with overseas law enforcement and recently worked with the FBI in a card fraud sting that saw more than 60... [15 Jul 2009]
The Impact of Wireless LAN Technology on Compliance to the PCI Data Security Standard
White Paper The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard was created in 2004 to help consumers maintain confidence in the privacy of their personal data and transactions when using credit cards. Compliance is mandatory for... [12 Jul 2009]
How Virtualization Affects PCI DSS Part 1: Mapping PCI Requirements and Virtualization
White Paper Theft of credit/debit card information - also referred to as Cardholder Data (CHD) - is increasing with the steady rise in Internet shopping and e-commerce as well as the use of potentially risky... [12 Jul 2009]
Demystifying PCI Compliance
White Paper The daunting fact is that every organization handling credit card transactions must comply with this strict industry requirement. Merchants and service providers have found difficulty in unraveling the PCI standard's... [04 Jul 2009]
ATM hack talk pulled from security conference
News The description of the talk, which was posted on the Defcon website but appears to have been removed, said: "The most prevalent attacks on Automated Teller Machines typically involve the use of card skimmers, or the... [02 Jul 2009]
