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The holiday season is a prime time for fraudsters to target consumers' credit cards and it's not surprising that Dexter has come to light a week before Christmas. Dexter is yet another malware variat...
On data breaches and forms of attack: resistance is futile In 2012, we have seen an increasing number of sophisticated attacks made on a range of organisations in an attempt to capture consumer inform...
Eurograbber, a Trojan that transfers itself from a user’s PC to their mobile phone has come to light, reportedly having so far defrauded banking customers out of over €36m. The simple reason for this ...
This week ACI Worldwide released their global survey which finds that a quarter of people across the 17 countries reviewed have been affected by card fraud during the past five years. In particular, ...
BT recently conducted a survey amongst 1000 of its staff in a bid to gauge their attitudes and approaches to online security. What caught my eye about this survey is the simple fact that going online...
Project Oscar, the mobile wallet grouping between Vodafone, O2 and Everything Everywhere, has had the go ahead from the European Commission to develop a single mobile wallet platform hosting cards, co...
The recent findings of the British Retail Consortium’s first e-crime study which estimates that UK retailers lost over £205 million in 2011-2012 due to e-crime caught my eye recently – particularly t...
Experian figures show just why we need EC3 and an industry strategy for countering Cyber Crime Following recent news from Experian that more than 12 million pieces of personal information have been i...
It was interesting to read in the FT's special on 'Cyberwarfare' recently which identifies that pin pad payment terminals pose a security risk for millions of consumers. According to MWR InfoSecurity...
This week two large-scale fraud scams caught my attention. The first scam sees fraudsters using new and improved Zeus and SpyEye malwares to infiltrate people’s computers, enabling them to steal their...
I was interested to hear this week that the US consumer watchdog, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has launched a public website that publishes consumer's complaints about credit cards. Intereste...
We now live in the age dominated by social media networking channels in which people feel compelled to tell the world intimate details of their daily lives. This inevitably leads to a tendency to over...