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FSA warns banks: Shape up on security
News Speaking at the FSA annual conference on financial crime, FSA director, financial crime and intelligence division Philip Robinson said: "It is worrying that despite increased public awareness of the impact that identity theft can have on customers...
[April 28, 2008, 8:56]
Warning issued over fake FBI emails
News The issue has gained renewed attention as the number of spoofing campaigns linked to identity theft scams -- also known as phishing attacks -- has increased significantly in recent years. The FBI is warning the public about malicious emails...
[February 24, 2005, 11:30]
HMRC loses thousands of pensioners' details
News Compromised personal details have in the past been sold to fraudsters for the purposes of identity theft and other criminal activities. Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs has admitted losing the personal details of over 6,500 people claiming pensions.
[December 18, 2007, 17:02]
Caught in the GoDaddy red tape
Blog While not exactly being identity theft, this is definitely somebody using my name, with my slightly altered work details, to register a dodgy site. This is one of those situations that would be funny if I wasn't the one caught up in it.
[June 26, 2008, 19:35]
UK police launch hacker crackdown
News Meanwhile, on the other side of the continent police in Estonia arrested a 24-year-old man suspected of creating and distributing a Trojan which enabled him to steal data and commit identity theft against the owners of compromised machines.
[April 11, 2005, 11:05]
Phishers hooking victims with stolen data
News Typically using large-volume email campaigns, phishers try to trick people into sharing personal information that the thieves then sell or use to commit identity theft. Security researchers are reporting a new brand of phishing attack that attempts...
[May 16, 2005, 9:45]
Billion dollar bank fraud foiled by UK crime fighters
News Merrett also said that this case highlights the danger of identity theft on the Internet and threatened to dent confidence in online banking technology. The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) today revealed details of an investigation into an...
[April 11, 2001, 15:35]
E-commerce: the best is yet to come
News The panellists were enthusiastic on Friday about the prospects of increasing that amount closer to a double-digit figure, despite growing fears over identity theft, fraud, privacy invasion and online nuisances such as viruses, worms and spam that...
[October 18, 2004, 9:30]
HP's Hurd recalls few details under questioning
News Patricia Dunn, HP's former chairman, and four others who took part in the company's probe were charged last month in California with four felonies, including identity theft and conspiracy. When asked by Congress to supply more information about HP...
[November 2, 2006, 9:18]
The new era of mobile banking.
Blog Comment The bottom line is that where money is migrating into mobile the fraud, hacking, and mobile identity theft is migrating too. David, You raise a good point “Wouldn't fraud become an even bigger problem if all banks were using the same service?
[November 1, 2007, 18:22]
Anti-cybercrime centre opens for research
News These processors can be installed at the heart of computer and telecommunications networks, and are designed, using behavioural rules, to avert online crime such as identity theft and child grooming, the centre said in a statement.
[September 24, 2009, 9:58]
Should companies care about privacy breaches?
News It can often lead to identity theft. Large companies do not have an economic incentive to prevent privacy breaches occurring, according to researchers from Harvard and Carnegie Mellon Universities this week.
[June 30, 2006, 16:45]
Court dismisses charges against HP's Dunn
News Originally, California charged five people with four felonies, including conspiracy and identity theft. A California judge on Wednesday dismissed the charges against former HP chairman Patricia Dunn in the HP spying scandal.
[March 15, 2007, 10:34]
Another Day, Another Data Loss
Blog Whether data was lost by the Government or a contractor, without implementing the necessary security procedures to protect data in transit, data leakage will continue, exposing thousands of innocent people to identity theft.
[October 13, 2008, 8:56]
Companies urged to move beyond passwords
News Security guru Bruce Schneier summed up many of the arguments against two factor authentication in an interview earlier this year, saying: "People are selling two-factor authentication as the solution to our current identity-theft problems, but it...
[September 14, 2005, 16:40]
Microsoft will fight phishing before IE7 launch
News As we block spam reaching the user's mailbox, it becomes one less way of launching a phishing attack, which can also lead to identity theft. Microsoft will not wait for the launch of Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) before bringing out a phishing filter...
[August 25, 2005, 17:55]
Adobe and IBM join to boost PDF security
News Companies really do understand there's money to be made using electronic business techniques.but they're afraid of digital identity theft and the fraud that that can make possible," Cannady said. IBM is expected to announce a partnership with...
[July 10, 2003, 15:28]
US arrests 130 people for online fraud
News Internet auctioneers have been the target of numerous fraud schemes, ranging from shill bidding, in which sellers bid on their own auctions to artificially jack up the price, to identity-theft schemes.
[May 19, 2003, 9:57]
Barclays claims card-reader has eliminated fraud
News These chip and PIN devices do not prevent all identity theft — hackers can still steal screenshots of what you are doing on your PC, and find out information about you and your account which could potentially be used for fraudulent purposes," he...
[July 18, 2008, 17:04]
HP's Hurd quizzed over stock sale
News Five people involved in HP's leak hunt have been charged with four felonies, including identity theft and conspiracy. Two members of Congress want HP chief executive Mark Hurd to explain why he sold HP stock just prior to the company's...
[December 15, 2006, 7:43]
