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- Fraud in the U.S. Payments Industry: Fraud Mitigation and Prevention Measures in Use and Chip Card Technology Impact on Fraud
- The white paper provides an overview of current fraud levels in the U.S. and of projected trends based on anticipated changes to the payments infrastructure. It focuses on credit and debit card fraud, which accounts for the vast majority of payment fraud in the U.S. Based on a cross-section of...
- Tags: Payment, Industry, Fraud, Chip, Smart Card Alliance, Litigation, Operational Accounting, Business Operations, Finance
- White papers 2009-10-01
- Microsoft to detail planned changes in its fiscal reporting structure
- won't save themNo matter how much monkey boy tries to obfuscate this criminal enterprise, it will still go down in flames.Microsoft Cooks Bookshttp://www.aaxnet.com/news/M990112.htmlMicrosoft fills the "cookie jar" in good times and dips into it in bad to create an appearance of steady growth. FTC does not approve of this accounting...
- Tags: Litigation, Vertical industries, Operational accounting, Financial accounting, Financial services, government, fraud, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-15
- iPhone's anti-phishing protection offers inconsistent results
- Apple's iPhone OS 3.1 update includes a new fraud warning feature which is at least theoretically, supposed to warn users when visiting fraudulent websites in Safari Mobile. However, due to a flawed implementation in the update mechanism, the feature -- enabled by default -- is offering inconsistent...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Safari, Mobile, Fraud, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Litigation, Smart Phones, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Business Operations, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- 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
- Bust in Heartland credit card hack
- Huge antihacking indictments today. A federal grand jury indicted three people for the massive theft of some 130 million credit card numbers from card processor Heartland Payment Systems, The Post reports. The same people - including Albert Gonzales, 28, are believed by the feds to have been involved in hacks...
- Tags: Credit Card, Fraud, Computer, Gonzales, Sales Channel, Productivity, Litigation, Financial Services, Sales, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-17
- Use H-1B or L-1 workers? Prepare for a Federal audit!
- Audits for firms sponsoring L-1 and H-1B Visa Well, looks like the Feds are going to get around to auditing the firms that use L-1 and H-1B visas. Specifically, they’ll be verifying that the people who applied for these permits are who they purport themselves to...
- Tags: L-1, Audit, Worker, Fraud, H-1B, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Finance, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- Scalpels against five levels of medical greed
- Health care workers are bankers, and need to be treated as such. That means they must prove their honesty, know their frauds will be uncovered and that there's no re-entry for those who commit fraud. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Health Care, Fraud, Health Care Worker, Litigation, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Business Operations, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- Online Fraud Plummets as European Banking Group Partners With RSA
- As one of the leading retail banks in Europe, with a number of market leading positions, this banking organisation serves over 30 million people. The challenge was to european banking group that was faced with mounting fraud costs following the introduction of an e-commerce scheme, 3D Secure, which shifted liability...
- Tags: Bank, RSA Security Inc., Monitoring, Fraud, E-business, Web Technology, Litigation, E-business/E-Commerce, Banking, Financial Services, Business Operations, Internet, Finance
- Case studies 2009-08-01
- 419 scammers using Dilbert.com
- Scammers too, know Dilbert. On their way to search for clean IPs through which to send out yet another scam email, 419 con-artists Mrs Sharon Goetz Massey have recently started using Dilbert.com's recommendation feature in an attempt to bypass anti-spam filters -- and it works. The use...
- Tags: Fraud, Scammer, Litigation, E-mail, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Business Operations, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- Biofuel fraud exposes some big names
- A court has awarded over $10-million in damages for fraud perpetrated by Cello, a biofuel company. If you've read Anthony Trollope's THE WAY WE LIVE NOW you could have predicted something like this. Scams are as old as the stock market. If you follow any current headlines you...
- Tags: Biofuel, Fraud, Biofuel Fraud, Scams, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-07-04
- An Efficient Distance Bounding RFID Authentication Protocol: Balancing False-Acceptance Rate and Memory Requirement
- The Mafia fraud consists in an adversary transparently relaying the physical layer signal during an authentication process between a verifier and a remote legitimate prover. This attack is a major concern for certain RFID systems, especially for payment related applications. Previously proposed protocols that thwart the Mafia fraud treat relaying...
- Tags: Probability, Fraud, Attack, Mafia Fraud, Litigation, RFID, Security, Business Operations, Wireless And Mobility, Biometrics
- White papers 2009-07-04
- Enterprisewide Fraud Management: Analytically Powered Best Practices for Detecting, Preventing and Investigating Fraud in Financial Institutions
- Few banks have strong, enterprisewide fraud management programs that can correlate a customer's behavior across all contact channels and products to identify "Bust-out" scenarios, social networks and cross-channel fraud. The fraud management process itself is often fragmented. Fraud detection, alert and case management practices are still too often viewed as...
- Tags: Financial, SAS Institute, Best Practice, Fraud, Fraud Management, Corporate Law, Litigation, Business Operations
- White papers 2009-07-01
- Improve Compliance Across SAP and Non-SAP Systems
- In an announcement reported around the world, bank officials revealed that, over the course of several years, a rogue trader executed fraudulent transactions that cost the bank billions of dollars. According to company executives, it was the trader's knowledge of internal policies and process controls that had allowed him to...
- Tags: Bank, Trader, Compliance, SAP AG, Fraud, Financial Services, Litigation, Business Operations
- White papers 2009-06-01
- Bad time to be accused of H-1B visa fraud
- Would your firm want this kind of publicity? Be sure and check out the piece in ComputerWorld (May 27, 2009) re: H-1B fraud prosecution. The article by Patrick Thibodeau describes how the U.S. Federal Government is connecting the alleged abuse of the H-1B...
- Tags: Job, H-1B Visa, Juror, Worker, Fraud, H-1B, Government, Vertical Industries, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-05-28
- Managing Fraud Risk in a Time of Economic Crisis
- As often happens in times of economic distress, the risk of fraud - both internal and external is greater than it has been in a number of years. Many insurers already have controls and systems in place to identify, monitor, and manage fraud risk, and to protect themselves, their policyholders,...
- Tags: Economic Crisis, Fraud, Litigation, Business Operations
- White papers 2009-05-22
- Fraud in a Downturn: A Review of How Fraud and Other Integrity Risks Will Affect Business in 2009
- The impact of the credit crunch and the global economic slowdown is challenging even most robust institutions. Those charged with the governance of some of largest private sector companies have had to focus on short term measures to address the risk of corporate failure. Leaders of public sector institutions must...
- Tags: Public Sector, Risk, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Fraud, Litigation, Business Operations
- White papers 2009-05-12
- Stop Application Fraud at the Source With Device Reputation
- Device fingerprinting coupled with the device's reputation helps identify the bad guys in the acquisition channel, so one don't have to rely on other fraud detection tools that drive up the cost to decision an application. Working in conjunction with existing fraud detection techniques, a device fingerprinting solution gives one...
- Tags: Fraud, IOVATION, Litigation, Productivity, Mergers & Acquisitions, Identity Theft, Corporate Law, Business Operations, Investment, Finance, Security
- White papers 2009-05-07
- Report: Fraud and deception at Satyam was deep
- The fraud and deception at Satyam Computer Services in India was so in-depth that it included dual accounting books, thousands of forged invoices, thousands of unnecessary employees and dozens of fake bank statements, according to court records analyzed by the New York Times. ...
- Tags: Satyam, Deception, Fraud, Outsourcing, Financial Services, Litigation, Balance Sheets, Financial Accounting, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Financial Statements, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- Special RSA Online Fraud Report: What to Expect in 2009 and Beyond
- Online fraud is a non-stop threat to organizations around the globe, and cyber-criminals have no intention of slowing down the pace. In fact, they continue to improve their technology, launch increasingly sophisticated attacks, and use advanced social engineering techniques to dupe online users into falling for scams. Also, global conditions,...
- Tags: RSA Security Inc., Fraud, Litigation, Business Operations
- White papers 2009-04-01
- Fraud Alert: Phishing - The Latest Tactics and Potential Business Impact
- Phishing will continue to evolve into new forms, while attempting to take advantage of human behaviors such as compassion, trust, or curiosity. Protecting the brand and the business from phishing requires constant diligence, but pays rewards beyond reduced fraud losses. By educating and protecting the customers with the highest levels...
- Tags: VeriSign Inc., Fraud, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing
- White papers 2009-04-01
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