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When hiring new employees the first concern is often “how good of an employee will they be” but in fact the first concern should be “are they actually who they say they are” because regardless of the ...
The 2012 Identity Fraud Report: Social Media and Mobile Forming the New Fraud Frontier report released by Javelin Strategy & Research Data Breaches increasing and more damaging – “One likely contr...
If you were hit by a bus, and passed on to whatever heaven might exist, would you care about your Facebook page? Probably not. But your loved ones more than likely would. Things like email, websites, ...
I’m really pleased that MasterCard has developed a fraud detection service for online merchants that could realise a potential for 15-30% fraud loss savings. Whilst it’s a step in the right direction...
Last week saw a number of reports released about the UK’s continued battle against cybercrime and fraud, with the financial services sector highlighted as taking the brunt of the problem. Pricewaterho...
Two interesting stats have caught my eye this week: Fraudsters are costing the UK an estimated £73billion a year (National Fraud Authority, NFA) Cybercrime has now become the second most commonly r...
NFC contactless payments, and P2P mobile payments are fast gaining momentum in the payments world. Banks, retailers, network operators, amongst others are all rushing for land grab, rolling out new NF...
Commander Edward John Smith had a reputation as a safe pair of hands. He had been a sailor for over 30 years and had been a captain for nearly a quarter of a century. He was decorated and saw service ...
It’s a new, exciting era for Trojan builders. The mobile space in 2012 is a virginal, unchartered territory that attracts the talent and creativity of black hatters and malware writers like moths to a...
You’ve seen barcodes all your life. So you know what they look like: rectangles “boxes” comprised of a series of vertical lines. When a cashier scans a barcode, you hear a familiar beep and you are ch...
The Federal Trade Commission in the US recently released their consumer complaints survey results and for the 12th year running, the number one consumer complaint was identity theft. Whilst this re
Suddenly there seems to be a lot more talk about SIM swaps. If you don’t know, this is when a fraudster, using social engineering techniques, dupes the victim’s mobile phone operator into porting the ...