identity fraud
RSS identity fraudIdentity Fraud: Prevalence and Links to Alien Illegal Activities
White Paper This report discusses the significance of "identity fraud" - a term that encompasses a broad range of illegal activities based on fraudulent use of identifying information of a real person or of a fictitious person. [21 Dec 2004]
Identity Fraud: Providing a Solution
White Paper Recognizing that the science of human identification provides three basic means of identification; namely, knowledge-based, biometrics and tokens, the white paper acknowledges that an identity fraud solution, depending on the environment in which... [01 Sep 2005]
Brits living in fear of identity fraud
News Identity fraud, and information theft from mobile phones top the list of security concerns in the UK. It comes on the back of a similar survey of 4,500 adults in the UK by telecoms regulator Ofcom, which revealed approximately half the respondents... [20 May 2008]
ID cards 'could make identity fraud worse'
News The government's ID cards project will not combat ID fraud but could instead make the problem worse, according to the Conservatives who have seized upon the controversy surrounding the scheme to score some easy points. [03 Feb 2006]
Phishing, phaxing, vishing and other identity threats: The evolution of online fraud
White Paper This paper describes the online fraud of phishing, looks at other methods it has spawned, and gives advice on how organizations can prevent the theft of their identity. Fraudsters and scammers are finding increasingly devious ways of stealing... [30 Jun 2008]
Opinion: Online security school now in session
Comment The UK government is set to launch a programme to teach consumers and small businesses how to avoid online fraud and identity theft. It's one of the most serious cases seen to date of identity fraud, a crime that the Home Office estimates accounts... [24 Oct 2005]
ID fraud: Who's most at risk?
News National identity fraud protection week has kicked off with a warning that 79 per cent of Brits are still being careless when it comes to safeguarding their personal data. Three-quarters of UK adults have either been affected by identity fraud or... [09 Oct 2007]
Government ID fraud claims - are they all they seem?
News Government claims that identity fraud in the UK costs £1.7bn a year have been exposed as inaccurate, with the real figure less than a third of that total, a silicon.com investigation has found. Today's figures include a total of £395m for "money... [02 Feb 2006]
UK's "FBI" takes on cyber-criminals
News Drug trafficking, organised immigration crime, money laundering and identity fraud will be the main targets of the new Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), dubbed the UK's FBI. According to SOCA'a annual plan, around 40 per cent of its efforts... [03 Apr 2006]
ID theft 'threatens almost all UK homes'
News More than 21 million UK households are in the firing line of identity fraud as Britons continue to throw away documents that could be useful to rubbish-rummaging fraudsters. These findings coincide with the launch of the National Identity Fraud... [16 Oct 2006]
Identicate: Real-Time Identity Authentication
White Paper With Identicate, the CGI-AMS real-time identity fraud and authentication solution, you know in just seconds exactly who your customers are. Blending seamlessly into your existing business processes, Identicate helps protect your organization... [30 Aug 2005]
"Two-factor authentication won't stop ID theft"
News Plans to bolster online security with code-generating gadgets, fingerprint readers or smart cards are not likely to solve the identity fraud problems currently plaguing database companies and online stores, a security expert has warned. [16 Mar 2005]
PCI Compliance: The Importance of Securing Payment Information
White Paper 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. The vast majority of these cases stemmed from data... [13 May 2008]
Snatched laptop puts 40,000 at risk of ID fraud
News About 40,000 US Chicago Public Schools (CPS) employees are at risk of identity fraud after two laptops containing their personal information were stolen late last week. The University of California at San Francisco recently said a possible computer... [10 Apr 2007]
ID theft: The real danger is offline
News Though identity theft using the internet seems to get all the attention, most of the financial loss linked to fraud is still from offline crime, a new study shows. Losses related to an average case of internet-initiated fraud were $551, compared to... [27 Jan 2005]
