Yet, already news of another internet fraud incident has hit the silicon.com news desk. It could well be a version of the US Internet Fraud Complaints Centre (IFCC). UK consumers and businesses need a real resource, providing information about...
Outline how the outsourcer's security team is to work alongside yours, if boundaries are blurred then companies are vulnerable to security breaches such as theft and fraud. Security threats such as viruses evolve continually; technology companies...
The immediate risk is to a firm's reputation if its name is connected with fraud. Terrorist attacks on outsourced operations, computer virus outbreaks and internet-based 'phishing' scams will all pose serious threats to the UK banking industry in...
It's great news that chip and PIN is stopping fraud on the high street, as shown by the latest figures. But this means that fraudsters are finding the easy money they've been used to is getting much harder to find.
He quoted a figure of 200,000 cases of internet-based identity fraud, at a cost to the UK economy of at least £16m. Online credit fraud has also increased by 29 per cent, he added. Pritchard said: "The rise in aggressive viruses and cyber-security...
Other threats could be toll fraud, where premium rate calls are made to numbers that benefit hackers (by users, or in the future by bots infecting company networks), or denial of service attacks. These future threats include voice spam, where voice...