No bank details were necessary as my single password accessed my online account and authorised the transaction. I logged in to the wine seller's site, inputted my password, ordered a case and logged off - safe in the knowledge the wine will arrive...
Professor Robert Macredie and Dr Mark Lycett seek to clearly define 'programme management' with a view to smashing two assumptions - that it is simply a scaled-up version of project management and that a 'one size fits all' approach will work.
As the online banking, shopping and payment industries have grown, so too have the methods used by thieves to trick unsuspecting consumers into giving away password and account data. For instance, an Internet surfer tricked into visiting a certain...
While law enforcement is constrained by rules, budgets and jurisdictions, organised crime is not and while the one must seek to use Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties at the speed of 20th century bureaucracy, the other can traffic at internet speeds.
A password was found to be the most widely used security check when customers get through to a call centre but agents at nine of the institutions were persuaded to accept less secure methods of verifying the identity of callers claiming to have...
Another way could be to promote online account monitoring and advanced protection against phishing scams that seek to trick people into giving up account details, the research company said. Out of 24 of the top financial institutions in the US...