Trustev, Winner at Silicon Valley Global Forum & Technology Leaders Awards 2013

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Source: Trustev & ITLG, 15th May 2013 (The following press release can also be downloaded as a PDF.) Trustev Takes Top Prize Cork Technology Startup Trustev wins first place prize at prestigious technology awards in San Francisco. Trustev, the Irish startup on a mission to end online fraud, was today announced as overall winner at…

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Tech: The Latest Weapons Against Online Fraud

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Source: Matthew Parsons @ TTG Digital, 17th April 2013 (Note: The following item has been re-produced with kind permission of TTG, the original article can be found on their website here) Online facial recognition tools such as Facebanx are the latest weapon in the fight against fraud. By Matthew Parsons Card fraud is big business.…

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James R. Clapper Jr: Cyberattacks Now More Pressing than the Risk of an Attack by Global Terrorist Networks

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Source: #TheFraudTube, 13th March 2013, New York Times, 12th March 2013 Yesterday James R. Clapper Jr., the US Director of National Intelligence, told a Senate panel that the threat of cyberattacks was now more pressing than the risk of an attack by global terrorist networks. According to an article in the New York Times, it…

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Blizzard’s Battle.net Hacked

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Source: Blizzard, 9th August 2012 Millions of account details have been stolen via a hack on battle.net, the account management and access system used in games such as World of Warcraft, StarCraft 2 and Diablo 3. The compromised accounts relate to those on the North American servers (which generally includes players from North America, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand,…

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US NSA Wants to Hire Hackers

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Source: CNN Money, NSA 29th July 2012 The National Security Agency recently took to DefCon for a recruitment drive… not your average government approach! Be Sociable, Share! Tweet

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Standard Chartered Shares Dip on Laundering Allegations

Retired Fraudster on the ABC’s of Financial Fraud

Friday Amusement…

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… a couple of cartoons that caught our attention over the last couple of weeks…   Be Sociable, Share! Tweet

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The $31 Billion Health Insurance Mistake (and How to Avoid It)

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Source: InvestingAnswers, 29th June 2012 According to a 2011 study by the Ponemon Institute a whopping 1.42 million Americans fell victim to medical identity thieves; the annual economic impact of that medical identity theft was $30.9 billion, or more than $217 per victim. It’s no wonder that healthcare-related fraud is on the rise. According to…

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ATM Skimming Crimes On The Rise

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Source: toledoBlade.com, 10th June 2012 With the USA now the single largest economy without Chip & PIN this comes as no surprise… Be Sociable, Share! Tweet

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