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First party fraud continues to be a challenge facing institutions and is, arguably, a necessary evil of doing business for institutions today. However, this also can prove problematic when also trying...
The trouble with social media revolves around identity theft, brand hijacking and privacy issues. The opportunity social media creates for criminals is to “friend” their potential victims in order t...
Despite what silly James Bond-esque credit card commercials may imply, credit card companies don’t really protect you to the degree you expect. If a credit card company detects irregular spending on y...
Social engineering is a fancier, more technical form of lying. An alternative to traditional hacking, it is the act of manipulating others into performing certain actions or divulging confidential inf...
I went to my favourite fraud underground forum, bought my favourite Trojan kit (I like Zeus), and then I looked through the Build-a-Trojan checkbox list to see what the next step is. Find hosting. Hos...
Personally, I don’t particularly enjoy staying in hotels. Sure, after a long day of travel, the hotel is a relief, but in most cases, I’d much rather sleep in my own bed. Criminal hackers, on the othe...
I want to ask something to my bank - about some transaction on my credit card account. So I call in to the call center. After the usual niceties exchange, the Support Guy on the phone asks me: SG
It’s hard to believe just how revolutionary the mobile phone was when it first entered the market in 1973. Back then, the mobile phone resembled a house phone; it was heavy, bulky, not particularly er...
The major problem that consumers face today is a fundamental lack of understanding of what identity theft actually is. Most people think of identity theft as when someone uses your credit card without...
All across the country one by one school, administrators are slowly beginning to recognize the need to perform background checks on volunteers. In Albany County WY, “under the tentative policy, all vo...
Microsoft’s fake bank scam is representative of a growing industry issue: identity fraud is on the increase and there is currently no linked up thinking or process in place to deal with it. This exa...
It is no surprise that cybercriminals are taking advantage of the Internet and the people who use it. The Internet is like a bad neighborhood with bad guys around every corner. Any parent with an ounc...