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- Mitigating Man-in-the-Middle and Trojan Attacks: Best Practices for Combating Emerging Threats With Layered Security
- As financial institutions across the globe continue to deploy strong, multi-factor authentication, fraudsters are simultaneously developing more sophisticated ways to launch attacks and to circumvent established security measures such as One-Time Password OTP authentication. Man-in-the-middle, Trojans and other malicious software ("Malware") attacks are the emerging means that fraudsters are using...
- White papers 2008-07-01
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- White papers 2007-06-01
- 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:...
- Discussion threads 2006-04-26
- Images: Going phishing for the holidays
- Fraudsters are using the holidays as a hook for phishing attacks.
- Image galleries 2005-12-21
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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...
- 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...
- White papers 2009-09-01
- Phishers apply quality assurance, start validating credit card numbers
- With the exact number of end users interacting with phishing emails by submitting bogus data still unknown, phishers are on the other hand continuing to apply basic quality assurance processes ensuring that they will be collecting only validated credit card details, and limiting the opportunity for researchers and end users...
- Blog posts 2008-10-30
- The Fraudster Economy Model: The Dynamics of Operating a Business in the Underground
- Phishing first gained traction in 1996 with hackers trying to steal America Online passwords from unsuspecting users. Today, it has evolved into a far more menacing criminal enterprise, with bands of fraudsters working together to create schemes that dupe unsuspecting online users into divulging personal details - most often, their...
- White papers 2008-05-01
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-23
- Highly Successful Online Financial Solutions Company Sees Huge Boost in Customer Trust After Deploying VeriSign Extended Validation SSL Certificates
- A leader in offering online debt management solutions, DebtHelp.com wanted to assure its Web site visitors that the information they entered into forms was genuinely transmitting to the authentic DebtHelp.com site and not a fraudster. The company deployed VeriSign Secure Site Pro with EV SSL Certificates. In so doing, DebtHelp.com...
- Case studies 2007-07-29
- 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...
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-03-05
- The ePassport cloning myth never dies
- The ePassport cloning myth never diesMyths are often based on factAll the arguments are correct HOWEVER ...The problem is less with the technology as with the people involved. Convince people that the technology is safe and they will not properly examine the passport or whatever.The benefit of using multiple...
- Discussion threads 2006-12-19
- 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...
- 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. ...
- Blog posts 2006-06-14
- ID theft fears overblown, study says
- ID theft fears overblown, study saysBS studySomebody wants us to believe that getting our private date exposed being by mistake or by theft is not a sure way of getting our identity stolen??What a bunch of BS. Private personal information is exactly what is needed to take over the identity...
- Discussion threads 2005-12-07
- 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....
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2005-04-06
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