Blog Posts Tagged with "fraud"
What Call Center Fraud Can Teach Us about Insider Threats
July 22, 2019 Added by:Saryu Nayyar
Detecting and preventing call center fraud embodies many of the same challenges associated with fighting insider threats.
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Key Risk Management Issues For 2016
January 13, 2016 Added by:InfosecIsland News
Chief risk officers (CRO) will need to keep close watch on a number of strategic, operational, and external risks this year. Effective risk management and mitigation will be critical, since companies' strategies, business models, operations, reputations, and, ultimately, survival are on the line.
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Can Hackers Use FraudFox VM to Defeat Your Fraud Prevention?
January 22, 2015 Added by:Robert Siciliano
So how worried should your business—and customers—be about FraudFox VM ? I sat down with Scott Waddell the Chief Technology Officer of iovation, the fraud prevention experts, to find out what the reality is behind the media headlines.
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Unfolding ‘DOUBLE TWINS’ Deception Scheme
July 29, 2013 Added by:Mikko Jakonen
‘DOUBLE TWINS‘ is deception scheme combining modern world speed, easiness to run anonymous with Internet and difficulties with real corporate and personal identity verification. What makes it most interesting; it was ‘quick in – quick out’ – job, completed within 3 weeks from the start.
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Credit Card Fraud Really Isn’t Identity Theft
January 23, 2013 Added by:Robert Siciliano
With the holiday shopping season and after holiday season sales over, it’s time to review our credit card statements and make sure that everything that is on there was something you purchased. With most of us using our card a lot more during this time, there’s more chance of fraud or identity theft...
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Fraud Files: Pay Later, Pilfer Now
December 18, 2012 Added by:Kelly Colgan
Services such as BillMeLater, a PayPal company that allows customers to make purchases on credit after a simple sign-up process and credit check, have created an identity theft trend and left victims fighting to clear their names...
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Fraud Files: When Tax Fraud Won’t Go Away
December 11, 2012 Added by:Kelly Colgan
Though it could create procedural challenges for the IRS and the U.S. Postal Service, Congress could solve the problem by simply refusing to issue refunds before April 15. That way they could see who has duplicate returns filed, and investigate before signing over checks to the bad guys...
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Gift Cards, Money Laundering, And Other Shenanigans
December 05, 2012 Added by:Jackie Singh
Well, one thing that makes the use of bank card schemes quite safe is that it’s quite a bit harder to clone the value of a card on to another. It’s certainly doable to clone the card itself and use it multiple times, but it’s going to drain the account as it is used...
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Cyber Threats to Democracy?
October 18, 2012 Added by:Jayson Wylie
I highly encourage anyone to look into the current mechanisms which count the people’s vote state-by-state, but even more I encourage the security industry and public to voice outrage for not putting security first in our sacred democratic election process...
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The Face of Battle: Sir John Keegan and the Individual in Compliance
September 26, 2012 Added by:Thomas Fox
Compliance violation perpetrators will often grow the fraud in magnitude, sometimes increasing the number of participants. They will rarely cease on their own accord. This fits into Sir John’s analysis of the everyman of battle: What they did and how they did it...
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How to Handle a Credit Card Breach While Abroad
September 13, 2012 Added by:Robert Siciliano
A 60-day window covers two billing cycles, enough for most account-conscious consumers who keep an eye on their spending. Victims of fraudulent credit card charges only wind up paying the unauthorized charges if they fail to report the credit card fraud within 60 days...
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eVoting Gets Real
September 03, 2012 Added by:Alan Woodward
Having written about the characteristics of reliable e-voting systems in Scientific American recently it is interesting to see that officials are now working hard to implement it.
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Four Defendants Charged in Credit Card Skimming Scheme
August 21, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Four men were arrested for their roles in an identity theft scheme involving the theft of credit card numbers used to fraudulently purchase fuel at gas stations in order to be sold, distributed, or otherwise used by the defendants in order to obtain criminal proceeds...
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One-Third of Banking Account Takeover Attempts Successful
August 20, 2012 Added by:Robert Siciliano
While less money was ultimately siphoned from banks and customers than in past years, there are new attack strategies on the horizon, which may push these numbers up in 2012. Threats, defenses, and vulnerabilities continually emerge, so stay tuned as we track the shifts in our evolving security landscape...
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The Rise of the Virtual-Plagiarist
August 13, 2012 Added by:Ben Rothke
Amazon is a prime feeding ground for the virtual-plagiarist given that Amazon makes a profit off everything sold, and they have no incentive to stop such practices as it would affect their profitability. Amazon takes a kid-gloves approach to plagiarism. That is all the more true for virtual-plagiarized text...
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Student Pleads Guilty to Counterfeiting Coupons on the Internet
August 07, 2012 Added by:Headlines
In addition to creating and disseminating fake coupons, Henderson also wrote tutorials and created templates he posted online and that provided instructions for creating counterfeit coupons using their own computers. Henderson’s scheme caused retailers and manufacturers to lose approximately $900,000....
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