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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...
...they might just be your increasingly rare fans. A few weeks back a new service started on twitter. @NeedADebitCard collated all the finest photos from the Internet taken by people keen to share th...
The Australian Payments Clearing Association (APCA) releases card fraud statistics every six months for the preceding 12m period. For the first time in many years, Australian card fraud has grown
Some say there will be a day when the wallet you carry in your pocket or purse will become obsolete. The plan is to eliminate all our credit cards, store cards, and IDs and use our mobile phones as ou...
As reported in March, the FBI has uncovered a network of rogue DNS servers and has taken steps to disable them. DNS (Domain Name System) is an Internet service that converts user-friendly domain name...
Wi-Fi is everywhere. Whether you travel for business or simply need Internet access while out and about, your options are plentiful. You can sign on at airports, hotels, coffee shops, fast food restau...
INTRODUCTION Your organization has decided that you must develop new processes, methodologies and technologies to increase the effectiveness and compliance of your sales force. Those you have, the one...
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...
Whether businesses like it or not cloud computing has crept into their infrastructures, in some cases under the radar of IT managers and is doing so via consumer technologies such as DropBox, SkyDrive...
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...
Two days ago Finextra reported on the 'hacktivist' Reckz0r. In a nutshell, the hacker claimed initially to have hacked into Visa and Mastercard, and went on to leak hundreds of account info. No worri...