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News last week that Zeus, a virus that steals online banking details from infected computer users, is more powerful than ever should come as no surprise. The malware steals log-in information by recor...
Over the last year I have stumbled across a number of people that all prescribe transaction authentication as a trustworthy way to solve eBanking fraud. Both security researchers, security specialists...
Most of the Swedish Banks are in the move towards making their customers become electronic citizens, by equipping their customers with a banking card that also contains an electronic identity. This en...
It’s hard to ignore – card fraud in the UK is a significant burden, still running at over £440 million according to the latest figures from the UK Payments Association. Not surprisingly the nature of...
In February CPP looked in more detail at the issue of mobile phone insurance fraud and theft. The results were interesting and confirmed some long-held assumptions that there is a small minority who t...
Two weeks ago I was cycling in the gym, watching cable TV. Roger Federer was beating Andy Murray live from Melbourne; after losing a point he looked at his tennis racket in puzzlement, as if trying to...
Definitions Your Home Equity is the difference between the market value of your house and all the mortgages you have on it. In proper English it means: The more you reimburse the loan on your house, ...
This week CIFAS, the UK’s Fraud Prevention Service, published its 2009 annual fraud statistics, and in line with expectations, the number of people affected by fraud continues to increase. Since the r...
This is a video on how to hack a wireless network. As mentioned on Lifehacker where I found this video, this is a purely educational post. Be aware that wireless networks are not secure. Lifehacker ...
Do you know the Real Definition of Credit ? Credit is a reserve of money granted to you, usually by a bank, that you will have to repay over a predefined period of time, but that you can use immediat...
Is fraud in the UK getting better or worse? As we enter 2010, the picture of fraud across the UK is somewhat mixed. On one hand we have figures from The UK Cards Association showing card fraud decreas...
As a TODO in your 2010 new resolutions, you might want to take control over your internet public image. But the process of "unfriending" a lot of people and/or deleting accounts seems to be ...