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News Details of how the Commission will tackle the massive increase in credit card fraud in the EU were released yesterday. The Commission hopes to use the plan to tackle... [20 Feb 2001]
Credit card hacker pleads guilty to fraud worth millions
News Albert Gonzalez, a former federal government informant and the alleged ringleader of one of the largest known identity theft cases in US history, pleaded guilty in Boston to 19 counts of conspiracy, computer fraud, wire... [14 Sep 2009]
Credit card fraud 'ten times more likely online'
News Online retailers are ten times more likely to be victims of a credit card fraud than their bricks and mortar counterparts. The villains are mainly fraudulent card users... [17 Jul 2000]
Bank Employs SMS Messaging System to Protect Customers From Credit-Card Fraud
White Paper Its reputation depends on its ability to protect clients from fraud - particularly credit-card fraud. Raiffeisenbank needed a solution that would reduce the cost of... [19 Dec 2007]
£2m credit card fraud masterminded by IT worker
News The UK's largest ever credit card fraud was masterminded by an IT expert who downloaded details of cards used by passengers to purchase tickets for London's Heathrow Express rail link.... [08 Sep 2003]
Zotob author linked to credit card fraud ring
News Turkish authorities have linked one of the suspects in the Zotob worm case to individuals thought to be part of a credit card fraud ring, according to the FBI. Atilla Ekici, a... [31 Aug 2005]
The Bloor Perspective: Credit card fraud, Big player results, and SANs
Comment The solution has to be to improve the fraud detection capabilities of the card authorisation process. This makes fraud a great deal easier, predictions of a fourfold growth in... [29 Oct 2001]
Handheld credit card readers to cut fraud
News A new payments system aimed at reducing 'card not present' fraud is to be trialled by UK payments association Apacs. It is designed for online and telephone transactions which are potentially vulnerable... [15 Feb 2007]
"How would you like to pay - credit card or fingerprint?"
News The fingerprint payment system was initially scheduled for a 60-day trial but "people were quick to warm up to it.after 60 days, we made it part of our payment package," he told the Retail Fraud Conference in London today. [01 Feb 2005]
Confessions of a credit card fraudster
News Speaking at this week's Retail Business Show, a man who committed 'card not present' fraud said this type of criminal behaviour is "the easiest thing ever". Fraudsters turn to credit... [01 Feb 2007]
Hacker publishes credit card numbers on the Web
News In what could be the largest recorded credit card fraud on the Internet, the hacker, simply known as 'Maxus', obtained entry to the US company's 300,000 strong sales database and... [10 Jan 2000]
Fraudsters steal 2,000 credit card details
News A statement issued by MasterCard said: "In order to protect cardholders, MasterCard and its card-issuing banks operate state-of-the-art, multi-level fraud monitoring systems. Together, we look for... [26 Apr 2006]
Analysis: E-tailer credit card cover-up - California dreamin'?
Comment At that time, as we put in calls to find out what the exact problem was, we felt like it was the bad old days of secrecy about online fraud. The next day we revealed that UK holders of MasterCard cards from Morgan... [10 May 2006]
Which? exposes credit card numbers online
News NET users 'wide open' to fraud http://www.silicon.com/a44829 Credit card numbers and other personal details were left accessible on the site. has issued a warning to thousands of its... [22 Jun 2001]
Credit card giants plan online liability overhaul
News EMV chip cards are single function cards, which counter fraud, using cryptograms. The move means that in "cardholder present" sales, Visa and MasterCard are liable to pay compensation to the consumer in the instance of... [23 Jun 1999]
