fraud laws
RSS fraud lawsBusiness Success in a Dark Market: An Inside Look at How the Fraud Underground Operates
White Paper Much like a real-world business, fraud "Entrepreneurs" offer products and services for a profit, they fight to gain competitive advantage and market share, are continually innovating to improve their offerings and meet... [06 Oct 2009]
The Changing Face of Vulnerabilities
White Paper One can't expect cyber laws to thwart social engineering any time soon (except for filing charges for fraud), but increased education can definitely help minimize losses and the impact on unsuspecting... [30 Jun 2009]
Legal Eye: Ecommerce held back by outdated laws
Comment General anxiety about payment security and fraud relating to online purchases add to buyers' reluctance to trade across borders, a result of the increased difficulty of establishing the trustworthiness of a foreign seller. [15 Apr 2009]
Cotton Traders' site hacked: Thousands of details stolen
News Customers who have become a victim of fraud following the attack are being asked to contact their credit card provider. Security groups say the attack highlights the need for laws governing companies'... [11 Jun 2008]
PCI Data Security Standard
White Paper Despite the best efforts of organizations to protect customer data, consumer fraud and identity theft have hit new highs. In response to this increased threat, governments around the world have been considering an array... [31 May 2008]
PCI Data Security Standard: SSO - Strong Authentication - Physical/Logical Security Convergence
White Paper Despite the best efforts of organizations to protect customer data, consumer fraud and identity theft have hit new highs. In response to this increased threat, governments around the world have been considering an array... [13 May 2008]
Banks under attack: Phishing on the rise
News In these geographies, regulations or laws have mandated strong authentication at login for online banking services which makes simple fraud attacks like phishing, replaying credentials from stolen... [18 Mar 2008]
Tories: Time to wage war on cyber crime
News Describing the government policy towards e-crime as showing a "lack of clear leadership", shadow home secretary David Davis revealed Tory plans to create a police national cyber crime unit, a minister for e-crime, a... [06 Mar 2008]
Stories of the Month - September 2007
News According to those who created the legislation, the laws also mean consumers have better tools to protect themselves against fraud. News that a successful pilot of lie detector voice recognition... [28 Sep 2007]
UK data laws need 'Californication'
News The data breach legislation in The Golden State has since been followed by similar moves from other US states and has forced businesses to take data security seriously - and given consumers the tools to protect themselves against... [24 Sep 2007]
Data breach laws 'need to be fair'
News California's data breach law has also forced companies to take data security seriously - and has given consumers the tools to protect themselves against fraud. Dunkelberger said data breaches may still continue to happen... [19 Sep 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. Yet recent reports saw Home Secretary Jacqui Smith flouting Data Protection (1998)... [13 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]
Why UK must pass data leak law now
News It then warned: "The absence of a duty of disclosure reduces the likelihood that customers will identify, complain of and provide proof of fraud; it also, since such complaints are in turn the most likely means of... [10 Aug 2007]
Web security breach exposes 54,000 card details
News Newcastle City Council claims there is no indication of any fraud on the affected cards. Newcastle City Council CEO Ian Stratford added in a statement: "We very much regret that this situation has developed, although we... [27 Jul 2007]
