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Electoral Commission hopes for email voting next year
News The security of the system is crucial according to the Commission, in order to ensure that it creates no opportunities for electoral fraud. Despite the controversy surrounding online voting, Younger believes the Internet could encourage younger...
[April 30, 2001, 15:41]
Harsh sentences loom for spammers
News The commission retained in the final substantive draft a controversial proposal to compare spam offences to theft, fraud and property destruction for the purposes of sentencing. Critics of the sentencing commission's fraud analogy argue that not...
[April 15, 2004, 10:50]
Netcraft plug-in aims to thwart phishers
News Netcraft has released an Internet Explorer plug-in that could help people avoid becoming victims of online fraud. The Internet security company heralded the plug-in toolbar, which displays information about the Web sites a surfer is visiting, as a...
[December 31, 2004, 9:40]
Symantec: Phishers targeting social-networking sites
News Social-networking websites are fast becoming a key target for online fraud, according to Symantec's latest Internet Security Threat Report. The report reveals that, for the second half of 2007, there were 87,963 "phishing hosts", an increase of 167...
[April 9, 2008, 8:12]
Yahoo calls for 'effective' cybercrime laws
News Yahoo on Thursday called for "effective" legislation combined with industry self regulation, to deal with online fraud, child abuse, and other cybercrime. The Internet services giant called on policy makers to concentrate on defining illegal use of...
[March 31, 2006, 15:35]
Leading antivirus firm acts to stop phishing
News McAfee has released updates to its spam prevention service and personal firewall software to help home users combat the growing form of online fraud known as "phishing". The new version of SpamKiller, released on Tuesday, uses a multilayered...
[September 29, 2004, 15:00]
Google to reveal click fraud stats
News Responding to concerns about click fraud in the online-ad industry, Google will be revealing to advertisers the number of invalid clicks on their ads with changes it's set to make to its AdWords system.
[July 26, 2006, 8:55]
Click fraud scams on the increase
News Click fraud happens in pay-per-click online advertising when people or computer programs click on an advert and imitate legitimate users. The amount of click fraud taking place on search giants such as Yahoo and Google has increased since the...
[July 17, 2006, 17:40]
Protecting Your Capital: Combating Cross Channel, Enterprise Fraud
White Papers Fraud continues to proliferate across financial institutions, through multiple lines of business and banking channels (payments, account opening, online banking, etc. Increasingly sophisticated criminal tactics and the proliferation of organized...
[June 2, 2009, 1:18]
Lords inquiry looks again at internet security
News These included calls for a data-breach notification law, increased resources for the police to deal with internet-based crime, and the reversal of the requirement that victims of online card fraud report the crime to their banks rather than the...
[February 21, 2008, 8:36]
Five arrested over phishing fraud
News German police have arrested five men in Bonn on suspicion of stealing €30,000 through phishing fraud and Trojan horse attacks. A sixth man associated with the group, which is suspected of targeting Postbank online account holders, is said to be on...
[December 20, 2004, 14:25]
Netcraft extends phishing protection to Firefox users
News Phishing is a prevalent type of online fraud that attempts to steal sensitive user information such as user names, passwords and credit card information. Internet services company Netcraft has released a version of its toolbar for Firefox.
[May 26, 2005, 10:35]
Mobile banking on the rise
News The rapid growth of automated banking facilities, such as online banking, telephone banking and now mobile phone banking, is creating a situation where banks are losing touch with their customers and potentially exposing them to fraud.
[December 21, 2005, 11:50]
London remains UK's card-fraud capital
News Security-analysis firm The 3rd Man looked at 30 million online and mail-order card transactions from high-street retailers and pinpointed the card-fraud blackspots. The UK's top card-fraud hotspots have been revealed in a report that shows the...
[July 25, 2008, 9:25]
Smart card kit secures PCs
News If the password is guessed, stolen or cracked, your online identity is vulnerable to misuse and fraud. Storing digital certificates and encryption keys in software are insufficiently secure for serious electronic commerce applications, according to...
[June 19, 1998, 11:06]
BT deletes Phorm forums
News The company is presenting Webwise as a service that "increases your protection against online fraud and makes ads that appear on participating websites more relevant to your interests". BT has deleted from its user forums almost all discussions...
[November 20, 2008, 12:01]
Viruses get political
News The creation of these worms suggests that some individuals are turning to malware as a way of promoting causes they support, rather than just to cause disruption or to aid other criminal activities such as online fraud.
[January 26, 2005, 15:50]
Microsoft won't patch against pop-up phishing
News Phishing is a prevalent type of online fraud that attempts to steal sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card numbers. Microsoft does not plan to update Internet Explorer to prevent a spoofing attack that could trick users...
[June 24, 2005, 9:55]
China becoming haven for phishers
News Last week, the Association of Payment and Clearing Services (APACS) claimed that banking customers are waking up to the threats of online fraud. China is playing host to a growing number of phishing scams, according to recent research that found a...
[March 29, 2005, 12:35]
Tories: Centralised data creates 'honeypot' for fraud
News Referring to polling data showing public worries about information security, she said: "Much of it is the government's doing by creating, through a command and control ideology whereby more and more personal information is collected and stored...
[September 29, 2009, 9:11]
