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IBM and Pay by Touch Make Checking Out at Thriftway Supermarkets a Soft Touch

whitepaper Thriftway Supermarkets wanted to provide top level customer service, reduce fraud in electronic payments and save on transaction fees. In May 2004, Thriftway Supermarkets became the first grocery retailer in the United States to install a payment...

Tags: customer support services

[16 May 2008]

Encrypting Recordings Is Not Enough: Steps to Protect Your Most Sensitive Data

whitepaper As fraud and identity theft becomes more prevalent, businesses that record calls must adhere to the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards to prevent recorded transactions from becoming a target.

Tags: security standards

[13 May 2008]

Citrix Solutions for Complying With PCI-DSS: Ensuring Protection of Web Applications and Privacy of Cardholder Information

whitepaper The standard comprises a set of directives for entities that handle credit cards, with the goal of reducing fraud. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) is a global standard governed by the major credit card companies.

Tags: security standards

[13 May 2008]

PCI Compliance: The Importance of Securing Payment Information

whitepaper Fraud and identity theft are on the rise. The Federal Trade Commission received more than 685,000 complaints of fraud and identity theft in 2005, totaling more than $680 million in stolen assets. This effort resulted in the Payment Card Industry...

Tags: security standards

[13 May 2008]

Meeting and Exceeding PCI 1.1 Compliance Today

whitepaper The primary purpose of this standard is to protect credit card data by reducing fraud and theft. Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Diner's Club, Discover, and JCB collaborated to create a new set of standards based on CISP (Cardholder Information...

Tags: security standards

[13 May 2008]

PCI DSS Compliance: A Difficult But Necessary Journey

whitepaper This standard is a set of network security requirements agreed upon by five of the major credit card companies in an attempt to stem the growth of credit card fraud around the world and to give a common interpretation of what security is all about.

Tags: security standards

[06 May 2008]

National fraud reporting centre to arrive next year

News Recently the UK's payment association Apacs launched the Payment Industry and Police Fraud Intelligence Unit to collate reports of fraud. A national centre to co-ordinate strategy for combating fraud in England and Wales should be in place by next...

Tags: security, cyber crime, fraud

[28 Apr 2008]

Sepa fraud risk warning for businesses

News A significant majority (86 per cent) said they had yet to even assess the payment fraud risk of Sepa, while 15 per cent of the insurance companies questioned believed there was a negligible risk. Gartner research VP of banking and investment...

Tags: fraud, faster payments, sepa

[03 Apr 2008]

Increased Online Revenues With Secure and User-Friendly e-Commerce Shopping Site for the Largest Retail Network in the UK

whitepaper The application is intricately integrated with multiple payment gateways, fraud detection and prevention systems, and third party applications. MindTree Consulting built a robust online shopping basket and an integrated Travel Money Card product...

Tags: e-commerce security

[27 Mar 2008]

Police chief: Cyber crime is everywhere

News Her warning came as payment clearing industry body Apacs released figures showing that £532.2m was lost to card fraud in 2007 - a 25 per cent rise since 2006. Lemon warned that the internet was fuelling a rise in global credit card fraud and that...

Tags: soca, cyber crime, e-crime, campaign

[19 Mar 2008]

Police backs calls for e-crime unit

News We need a national online fraud reporting centre and we need it now. The campaign has received backing from the Metropolitan Police, the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), politicians, businesses, UK payment industry body Apacs and other...

Tags: cyber crime, nhtcu, e-crime, crime

[12 Mar 2008]

e-Crime Crackdown - silicon.com launches national campaign

News silicon.com is today launching its e-Crime Crackdown campaign for a properly funded and dedicated national UK police unit to combat the growing threat of high-tech fraud and cyber attacks. Our e-Crime Crackdown campaign is calling for a fully...

Tags: cyber crime, e-crime, nhtcu, threat

[12 Mar 2008]

Card fraud up by a quarter to £535m

News Card fraud rose by 25 per cent in 2007, according to the latest figures from payment clearing industry body Apacs. Apacs said £535.2m was lost to card fraud overall last year, due mainly to stolen UK card details used in countries yet to upgrade to...

Tags: chip and pin, fraud, apacs, card

[12 Mar 2008]

Tax payer still owed millions by EDS

News The PAC report says the tax credit system continues to suffer the "highest rate of error and fraud in central government", with about £1bn of tax credits still being lost to fraud and error each year.

Tags: eds, government, public accounts committee, tax credit

[05 Feb 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...

Tags: geolocation, sales, customer loyalty, online retail

[09 Jan 2008]

Locking down financial security

Comment While overall card fraud is falling, instances of online fraud are rocketing, according to UK payment association Apacs. In 2006, internet fraud reached £154.4m, accounting for 73 per cent of card-not-present fraud.

Tags: security, phishing, authentication, banking

[24 Dec 2007]

Top 10 financial services stories of the year

News Online banking fraud plummets London hottest for online card fraud Research found London was the hottest spot in the UK for distance purchase (or card-not-present) card fraud. The report sponsors, Early Warning predicted card-not-present fraud...

Tags: mifid, apacs, lloyds, gartner

[17 Dec 2007]

Christmas spend online to hit £5bn

News 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. Among the measures suggested by Apacs, are keeping antivirus software up...

Tags: uk, online, consumer, retail

[30 Nov 2007]

Solutions for Complying with PCI-DSS

whitepaper The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), produced and governed by the major credit card companies, comprises directives to reduce fraud.Citrix Application FirewallTM, along with other Citrix solutions, provide compliance...

Tags: security applications, card, citrix, dss

[08 Nov 2007]

Experian adds anti-fraud tool

News Financial risk management specialist Experian has launched an account-checking service in an effort to cut direct debit and credit fraud. Brooker said since the banking community has concentrated on reducing credit card fraud, fraudsters have moved...

Tags: bank, credit card, experian

[03 Oct 2007]

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