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Mapping identity <endeca_term>fraud</endeca_term>'s impact on the UK

Mapping identity fraud's impact on the UK

...Incidents of identity fraud grew by almost 10 percent in the first nine months of 2010... Read more

23 October, 2010 by Karen Friar

Online UK banking fraud falls

...Losses from online banking fraud have fallen for the second year in a row, according to the... Read more

6 October, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Microsoft launches internet fraud alert system

...up a centralised service where security researchers can report incidents of internet fraud and hand over stolen personal data. Internet Fraud Alert, which began operations... Read more

18 June, 2010 by Matthew Broersma

Gov?t and business to pool clients' personal data

...part of a push to crack down on tax, welfare and insurance fraud. Francis Maude has unveiled a new anti-fraud service where the private... Read more

7 February, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Government calls on Experian data to spot fraud

...deal with credit reference agency Experian to use its data to detect fraud and error in the tax credits and benefits systems. They said that... Read more

7 December, 2011 by Mark Say

Digital crime accounts for one in four business frauds

Online crime now the third most common fraud suffered by British businesses... A quarter of frauds suffered by UK organisations... Read more

29 November, 2011 by Nick Heath

Zeus fraud gang member gets jail sentence

...UK agencies including GCHQ and the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca). The fraud's two main constituents were hacking and money laundering. The gang's... Read more

4 October, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Ukrainian sting targets Conficker fraudsters

...believes it has broken up a gang involved in a Conficker bank fraud worth millions of dollars, after a series of international raids. Police from... Read more

24 June, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Investigators bust suspected tech R&D fraud ring

...alleging that fictitious companies in the UK were involved in the apparent fraud. Twenty-two allegedly fake technology research projects were subject to the investigation... Read more

6 May, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Online fraud losses drop as consumers grow savvy

...Online fraud has dropped as consumers become familiar with the tricks used by online... Read more

11 March, 2011 by Shelley Portet

Zeus fraud gang trial hits another delay

...11 people arrested for their part in an alleged multimillion-pound Zeus fraud ring have been delayed because the prosecution is still trying to assemble... Read more

5 March, 2011 by Mark Ballard

HMRC anti-fraud squad targets online scammers

...fully functional "within months", she said.The team is expected to investigate frauds targeting the repayment systems, such as those where criminals use bogus identifies... Read more

14 March, 2012 by Gill Hitchcock

FBI nabs suspects in $14m clickjacking fraud

...in Estonia and a Russian is being sought on charges of wire fraud and computer intrusion, the FBI said on Wednesday. They are accused of... Read more

10 November, 2011 by Elinor Mills

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

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

6 October, 2011 by Shelley Portet

Police unit claims £140m success in e-crime crackdown

...intrusion, distribution of malware, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and internet fraud.The £140m represents the amount of money the UK has been prevented... Read more

5 October, 2011 by Steve Ranger

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

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@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

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As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

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@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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