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Has Barclays stamped out fraud with PINsentry?
News B is for Botnets The UK's third-largest bank said this week that it has distributed the card reader, made by Amsterdam-based Gemalto, to more than one million customers, and that none have been hit by fraud. [18 Jul 2008]
PC security warning for banking online
News B is for Botnets The online banking section of the latest Banking Code from the British Bankers Association suggests banks may not always be liable when online banking fraud takes place. Victims of online banking fraud who repeatedly fail to take... [16 Jun 2008]
Botnets: The New Threat Landscape
White Paper The rise of consumer broadband has greatly increased the power of botnets to launch crippling Denial of Service (DoS) attacks on servers, infect millions of computers with spyware and other malicious code, steal identity data, send out vast... [13 Jun 2008]
Cotton Traders' site hacked: Thousands of details stolen
News B is for Botnets Customers who have become a victim of fraud following the attack are being asked to contact their credit card provider. F is for Federated identity Hackers breached the company website in January and stole encrypted customer details. [11 Jun 2008]
Beware the insider security threat
News B is for Botnets Security experts at the RSA security conference in San Francisco last week warned of all manner of threats ranging from botnets to metasploit attacks. Graham Yellowley, director of technology services at investment bank Mitsubishi... [17 Apr 2008]
Phishers attack social networking generation
News B is for Botnets Social-networking websites are fast becoming a key target for online fraud, according to Symantec's latest Internet Security Threat Report. F is for Federated identity The report reveals that, for the second half of 2007, there... [09 Apr 2008]
Banks under attack: Phishing on the rise
News B is for Botnets Phishing attacks on banking organisations and their customers across the globe has increased steadily over the last six months, according to the latest fraud report from security software specialist RSA. [18 Mar 2008]
eBay warns of Romanian phishing threat
News B is for Botnets Last June eBay revealed details of a three-year long campaign to curb online fraud by criminals in Romania - leading to several hundred arrests. Most of Romania's law enforcement efforts are concentrated on its capital, Bucharest... [10 Mar 2008]
Tories: Time to wage war on cyber crime
News B is for Botnets 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 fraud and cyber... [06 Mar 2008]
Why no united front on cyber crime?
Comment Companies have been developing their security counter-measures to deal with the more common, asymmetric mass attacks launched through spam, phishing, botnets, denial of service and all manner of other exploits. [27 Feb 2008]
UK fraud hits 12-year high as methods go high-tech
News B is for Botnets Fraud in the UK hit a 12-year high last year as criminals increasingly turned to technology. The UK suffered more than £1bn of fraud in 2007, 90 per cent of which was perpetrated by organised gangs carrying out ID theft and VAT... [04 Feb 2008]
Stolen M&S laptop contains 26,000 pension details
News B is for Botnets A spokesman for the ICO said: "There is no evidence that any employees suffered ID fraud but there is always that risk with this type of information. F is for Federated identity Security from A to Z [25 Jan 2008]
Building society installs anti-money laundering tech
News B is for Botnets The society now has assets worth £4.4bn and like all banks is a potential target for fraud and money laundering. F is for Federated identity The building society currently carries out transaction monitoring and exception reporting... [11 Dec 2007]
Bot attacks target those looking for romance
News B is for Botnets PC Tools senior malware analyst, Sergei Shevchenko, said in a statement: "As a tool that can be used by hackers to conduct identity fraud, CyberLover demonstrates an unprecedented level of social engineering. [10 Dec 2007]
Christmas spend online to hit £5bn
News B is for Botnets The number of adults shopping online has more than doubled in the last five years to around 30 million, meaning more people are potential victims of fraud, according to Apacs. F is for Federated identity [30 Nov 2007]
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