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Met Police: UK botnet command server taken out

...Police Central eCrime Unit (PCeU) is working with payment card industry group Apacs and mitigating the threat of numerous fraudulent identities being used to perpetrate... Read more

5 August, 2010 by Tom Espiner

ID cards: Why they were destined to fail

...set was criticised by the UK card payments association, then known as Apacs, when its then head of security said that the card was devoid... Read more

8 June, 2010 by Nick Heath

Chip and PIN for ID cards: Not such a sharp idea?

...for the inclusion of chip and PIN functionality on ID cards, however. Apacs' Whittaker added there have been no indications from discussions with the IPS... Read more

15 April, 2009 by Nick Heath

Cost of online-banking fraud doubled in 2008

...more than doubled in 2008. According to figures from payments industry association Apacs, online-banking fraud reached £52.5m — a 132 percent increase on 2007... Read more

23 March, 2009 by Jo Best

UK falling victim to foreign card fraud

...millions of pounds from UK consumers' cards. According to payments-industry body Apacs, the amount UK retailers lose to card fraud has dropped by around... Read more

2 October, 2008 by Jo Best

UK sees sharp rise in phishing attacks

...have gone up by 200 percent this year, the UK payments association Apacs has warned. Apacs said consumers must be vigilant after the number of... Read more

17 April, 2008 by Nick Heath

Apacs head of IT steps down

Apacs IT chief Sue Yeo has left the organisation following a management restructure... Read more

31 March, 2008 by Julian Goldsmith

Christmas online spending to break £5bn barrier

...spend more than £5bn online during December, according to UK payments association Apacs. And Monday 3 December is predicted to be the most popular day... Read more

3 December, 2007 by Tim Ferguson

Online banking fraud plunges

...compared to the same period last year, according to UK payments association Apacs. But plastic fraud on UK-issued cards has gone up by 26... Read more

4 October, 2007 by Tim Ferguson

Banking industry lashes out at privacy legislation

...so they can fight back against Internet fraudsters. UK payments industry body Apacs has warned that data protection laws are hindering data sharing which could... Read more

9 December, 2005 by Steve Ranger

Launch of faster bank-payments system delayed

...testing around accessing the central system. A spokesman from payment trade association Apacs, which is overseeing the project, said: "The priority really for the industry... Read more

16 August, 2007 by Tim Ferguson

Lords probes online security risks

...leading financial services organisations. On Wednesday, witnesses from the UK payments association (APACS), the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and Visa gave evidence about the level... Read more

14 December, 2006 by Tom Espiner

FSA raises concerns over Internet banking

...their initiatives are effective in maintaining confidence." According to payment-processing body Apacs, fraud losses through Internet banking totalled £14.5m in the first half... Read more

24 January, 2006 by Dan Ilet

Banks lash out at security study

...of failing to protect customers. The Association of Payment and Clearing Systems (APACS) rejected comments made by security company Information Risk Management (IRM) over a... Read more

19 April, 2005 by Dan Ilet

Banks nearing agreement on Web security

...12m last year, according to the Association of Payment and Clearing Systems (APACS). Precise details of this two-factor device should be agreed on in... Read more

14 April, 2005 by Dan Ilet

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Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

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JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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pjc158

So let me get this straight just because a consultant has oberved that mobile companies who get in trouble never recover, well we all might as well...

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Jake Rayson

@191706> *their* own Mac Thank you for picking up the errant spelling :) @apexwm > Mac OS X for Intel machines is supposed to run in VirtualBox...

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archerthom

I'm imagining Batman-style sonar imaging that will detect the cat and Lego bricks in the dark - I'm going to be disappointed aren't I?

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unlockworldwide

May I quote Horace Dediu, who runs the consultancy Asmyco who has repeatedly observed that mobile phone companies that fall into loss – even once...

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NarayanaIyyappan

It is useful for their lifes,and also this matters are important for networking students.

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DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

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Jack Strain

Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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Sungwoo

do You know that? it can install 4G Ram. So i buy 4g and install It work! I can run call of duty 4,6,7 [Modern war... 1,2,3] Call of duty 1 was...

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itsajob

2. Bad idea. Making up patch cables loses you your commission from the cable supplier. 3. If you tidy up, other people can understand where the...

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Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

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UnderINK

I agree with the previous commenter wholeheartedly. I couldn't say it better myself. This is very 'Big Brother'. And while I agree with protecting...

3 days ago by UnderINK on European e-identity plan to be unveiled this month
Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe

Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

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