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Ramnit worm steals 31,000 UK Facebook logins

...Image credit: Seculert Threat assessment company Seculert said on Thursday that the financial fraud Trojan Ramnit, which has existed in one form or another since... Read more

6 January, 2012 by David Meyer
US cyber-tsar: Tackle jailbroken iPhones

US cyber-tsar: Tackle jailbroken iPhones

White House cybersecurity adviser Howard Schmidt discusses the implications of bring-your-own device policies, as well as how intelligence agencies and businesses could share more information Read more

24 March, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Online fraud declines as tighter web security sees crooks resort to retro methods

...of committing financial crimes, according to a report by fraud prevention group Financial Fraud Action UK (FFA UK). The FFA UK released figures which show... Read more

6 October, 2011 by Shelley Portet

Three men jailed over £3m phishing scheme

...their personal information. The gang then used this information to carry out financial fraud, such as unauthorised bank transfers and credit card transactions. Around 10... Read more

11 July, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Fake White House e-card delivers data-stealing Zeus

...banking Trojan horse designed to steal passwords and online credentials, mostly for financial fraud. In this attack, PDFs, as well as Microsoft Word and Excel... Read more

6 January, 2011 by Elinor Mills
Crooks steal past multi-factor authentication

Crooks steal past multi-factor authentication

...a barrier to entry into the shady world of 'carding' and online financial fraud. Logon details for online banking are usually sold at a price... Read more

16 July, 2010 by Rik Ferguson
DistanceBased Outlier Detection: Consolidation and Renewed Bearing

DistanceBased Outlier Detection: Consolidation and Renewed Bearing

...interesting applications in a myriad of domains ranging from data cleaning to financial fraud detection and from network intrusion detection to clinical diagnosis of diseases... Read more

11 August, 2010

WorldCom crisis shakes customers' faith

WorldCom's customers around the world are taking stock and making plans for what to do in the worst-case scenarios Read more

27 June, 2002 by John Borland

UK suffers jump in online financial fraud

The UK is suffering a cybercrime wave that has seen online financial fraud jump 20 percent, according to a new report. Reports of cybercrime... Read more

31 October, 2008 by Nick Heath
<endeca_term>Financial Fraud</endeca_term> and Internet Banking: Threats and Countermeasures

Financial Fraud and Internet Banking: Threats and Countermeasures

To reach the gullible as well as the experienced, cybercriminals are developing new attack methods and new traps. One... Read more

1 April, 2009
PCI DSS Made Easy: Addressing the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)

PCI DSS Made Easy: Addressing the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)

Major credit card companies are pushing hard to stop the financial fraud incidents that have affected numerous organizations and their consumers. Consequently, organizations... Read more

4 June, 2007
PCI DSS Compliance With IBM Power i

PCI DSS Compliance With IBM Power i

During recent years, merchants have been a target for financial fraud: For example, over 234 million records holding sensitive financial information were... Read more

3 June, 2009
Business-savvy cybercriminals work to improve their image

Business-savvy cybercriminals work to improve their image

Jon Ramsey, chief technology officer at SecureWorks, discusses the shadowy world of malware business models Read more

6 April, 2010 by Toby Wolpe

Cambridge researchers knock Verified by Visa

...In addition, card-not-present fraud has fallen, according to figures from Financial Fraud Action UK. Visa attributed this fall to the implementation of online... Read more

27 January, 2010 by Tom Espiner

FBI: Computer crime costs US firms $67bn

...worms, viruses and Trojan horses was most costly, followed by computer theft, financial fraud and network intrusion, according to the survey. Respondents spent nearly $12m... Read more

20 January, 2006 by Joris Evers

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