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- Identity theft down 12% in 2007
- Overall identity fraud is declining in the United States: down by an estimated 12% over 2006, which represents a total fraud reduction of $6 bln. Fraudsters are turning to lower-tech methods by utilizing telephone theft more than ever before, Javelin Research says. Access through mail and telephone transactions grew...
- Tags: Phone, Identity Fraud, Fraudster, Fraud, Identity Theft, Telecom & Utilities, Litigation, Security, Business Operations, AM
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Guilt by association: it's called reputation
- I've had domain specific languages on my mind recently, so when a Wired News article on Hancock, a DSL for data mining "communities of interest" crossed through my feedreader, I spent some time digging into it. The gist of the story is this: AT&T invented a language,...
- Tags: Guilt, Fraudster, AT&T Corp., Fraud, Litigation, Business Operations, Phil Windley
- Blog posts 2007-11-02
- Fighting the Enemy: Making Sense of the Growing Crimeware Threat
- The most popular method used to commit financial fraud in the online channel is by identity takeover. This occurs when a fraudster takes over an existing identity or account in order to steal funds from the account. Committing fraud through traditional identity theft tactics, such as creating a new identity...
- Tags: RSA Security Inc., Fraudster, Fraud, Identity, Identity Theft, Litigation, Security, Business Operations
- White papers 2007-06-01
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- Phishers introduce 'Chat-in-the-Middle' fraud tactic
- Phishers don't just want to "bank with you", they also want to talk you into revealing the answers to your 'secret' questions, next to more sensitive information that would help them gain access to your online bank account. A new 'Chat-in-the-Middle' fraud tactic was recently discovered by...
- Tags: Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-09-16
- Business Success in a Dark Market: An Inside Look at How the Fraud Underground Operates
- The business of online fraud has developed into a sophisticated underground criminal operation that continues to evolve everyday. Much like a real-world business, fraud "Entrepreneurs" offer products and services for a profit, they fight to gain competitive advantage and market share, are continually innovating to improve their offerings and meet...
- Tags: RSA Security Inc., Fraud, Litigation, Business Operations
- White papers 2009-09-01
- eBay CEO Whitman steps down; execs shuffled amid weak outlook
- eBay CEO Whitman steps down; execs shuffled amid weak outlookAmid weak outlook?We've been hearing for a year now how the "core auction business is slowing"..."weak outlook'...blah, blah, blah. And yet: "eBay's earnings were 45 cents a share, well ahead of Wall Street estimates calling for earnings of 41...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, eBay Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-01-23
- I've got two free 'ID Vaults' for the members of ZDNet's audience who....
- I've got two free 'ID Vaults' for the members of ZDNet's audience who....ID VAULT TESTERI DO MY BANKING AND 95% OF MY BUSINESS ONLINE. WHAT ELSE CAN I SAY??? I'D LOVE TO TEST IT !!!Changing my SSNI haven't been a victim of identity theft but of domestic violence and I...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Firewalls, Banking, ID Vault
- Discussion threads 2007-05-29
- Wikipedia: Why does Essjay need to "protect himself"?
- Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and Wikia, has issued a free pass to a Wikipedia editor who lied about his background. In an incredible contradiction, Wales said of Wikipedia editor and Wikia employee Ryan Jordan (nee "Essjay"): "“I accepted his apology, because he is now, and has always been, an...
- Tags: Business &, Technology
- Blog posts 2007-03-05
- PPC: IBM's ace is Games King
- PPC: IBM's ace is Games Kinghow low do people goAll game console manufacturers loose money on their consoles including Microsoft. The problem that Microsoft had with the previous console was not with the performance of the chip. Its because it could run all x86 software including applications. All that was...
- Tags: Games, Game players, PPC, game, Microsoft Corp., chip, Intel Corp., IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-09-13
- Internal fraud coupled with IT savvy is a killer combination
- As any auditor knows internal fraud is as old as business. The classic case involves the secretary who is responsible for accounts payable as well as procurement. He generates bogus invoices and pays them to bogus companies. I have a friend in Chicago whose business was ruined this way. ...
- Tags: fraud
- Blog posts 2006-06-14
- Fraudsters steal details on 2,000 credit cards
- Fraudsters steal details on 2,000 credit cardsWhere is the problem?Exactly what went wrong? Was the PCI standard ignored, was it inside people? My bet it was someone not doing their job."Fraud monitoring" misses the point"Together, we look for patterns of activity consistent with fraud."Hey, here's a novel idea:...
- Tags: E-mail, Sales channel, Litigation, Financial services, Scam Artist, fraudster, security, credit card
- Discussion threads 2006-04-26
- Identity theft: Attack the right issue
- Identity theft: Attack the right issueAMEN !!! NT.Identy theft: Attack the right issueExactly right!This is the same problem as with Spam. Spammers will always find a way around the obstacles we throw at them. So don't spend all your efforts into making the system foolproof....
- Tags: Spam, Sales channel, spammer, credit card, identity theft
- Discussion threads 2005-04-14
- eBay fraudster lands six-year prison term
- eBay fraudster lands six-year prison termNo return calls from eBay?Why am I not surprised? eBay operates a lot like Microsoft...hoping against hope that these sorts of bad press go quitely away. In the early days, eBay was seldom proactive--or even retroactive, for that matter--in pursuing these sorts of...
- Tags: Sales channel, Financial services, eBay Inc., PayPal
- Discussion threads 2005-04-06
- Microsoft teams with RSA on password protection
- Microsoft teams with RSA on password protectionStrong Security Indeed.....Quote ""Strong authentication is a fundamental security need,"I would think that good coding is a fundamental security need. Hey, here is an idea, lets take our most insecure product internet explorer and intergrate it into the core of the OS! Next let's...
- Tags: Operating systems, Digital security, password protection, team, RSA Security Inc., Microsoft Windows, password, security, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2004-02-23
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