Financial Fraud
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Singaporeans worry about high-tech crimes
News More so than traditional crimes, and topping the list of concerns are financial fraud and identity theft, a new survey shows.
Online security growing concern for Indian banks
News Survey reveals 30 percent of India's top 40 banks were victims of phishing attacks in the past year. Only 57 percent have formal plan to drive user awareness about fraud.
Tags: Banking, Network security, Security Management, Security implementation/standards, Security, IT Budget, India, Survey, electronic communication, software
VeriSign expands its two-factor token network
News The security company wants two-factor token authentication to be as easy and as secure as using an ATM network.
Tags: Authentication and encryption
UK struck by cybercrime wave
News The United Kingdom is suffering a cybercrime wave that has seen online financial fraud jump 20 percent, according to a new report.
Tags: Security, Cybercrime, Financial Fraud, Fraud, RSA Security Inc., e-mail, London, trader, Silicon.com, security adviser
UK online banking fraud rockets as fraudsters get smarter
News As Internet banking fraud jumps 55 percent in the first half of 2009, banking industry body warns that cybercriminals are "never going to shut up shop".
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Data security, PC security, Phishing, Security, U.K., bank, One Security Inc., Authentication and encryption, MasterCard International
Financial fraud hits 7.5 percent of US adults
News Many victims of financial fraud don't report the crime to authorities and few of the criminals are prosecuted, according to a new Gartner study.
Tags: PC security, Data security, Security, Victim, Fraud, Survey, FTC, Gartner Inc., financial health, Identity Theft
To catch a (cyber) thief
News Head of an FBI undercover sting operation explains how law enforcement cracked an ID theft ring and detailed the increasing influence of Russian organized crime.
Tags: PC security, Phishing, Security, Cybercrime, FBI, San Francisco, agent, financial, network, bank
McAfee launches free online cybercrime help center
News New McAfee Cybercrime Response Unit site offers PC scanning tool and helps people learn whether they are at risk of cybercrime and where to go if they have been victimized.
Tags: PC security, Spam and phishing, Phishing, Cookie, Malware, Security, Site, Fraud, computer, McAfee Inc.
CA executive pleads guilty
News Former business development chief pleads guilty to obstruction of justice and is scheduled for sentencing in October.
Tags: Legal
Computer crime costs US$67B, FBI says
News Dealing with viruses, spyware, PC theft and other digital crimes adds up to a hefty total for businesses in the United States.
Tags: PC security, Data security, Security, Legal
Security vendors beating 'pump-and-dump' spam?
News Financial fraud spam has plummeted from 50 percent of all spam in February to just 5 percent today, according to data from McAfee and Marshal Software.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Spam filtering
Computer Associates reorg spotlights security
News "The CA brand is tarnished," the software maker's chief executive says, as the company shuffles management and product groups.
Satyam: India Inc.'s rude wake-up call
Blogs In Sanskrit, Satyam means truth. But what we saw today was quite the contrary. We saw how one lie led to another, result...
Security: The weakest link
Insight Some of the most ubiquitous tech products and services worldwide are so hopelessly compromised security-wise that there must now be real concern over whether technology can deliver the raft of efficiency and innovation benefits it is capable of.
Tech that combats employee fraud
News Companies can cut down on worker malfeasance by using tools that monitor Web use and computer keystrokes, but they can't catch every would-be crook.
Tags: Employee, Fraud, computer, SpectorSoft, layoff, BasePoint, IMV Projects, Worker, software, network
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