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.…
Source: GOV.UK, 23rd April 2013 The Information Security Breaches Survey, commissioned by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), said firms were now “struggling to keep up” with security threats. “In total, the cost to UK plc of security breaches is of the order of billions of pounds per annum – it’s roughly tripled…
At a round-table event organised recently by the Payments Cards and Mobile team, and attended by a number of payments and mobile specialists, I was struck by how the subject of identity theft has gone from being a niche occurrence problematic for a few to a genuinely mainstream concern. And not only for security officers and banks,…
It seems that many of you found my previous post of interest, so as promised, here’s the second part. But first, let’s all have a look at this 2min 48s video: Security Threats by the Numbers from the Cisco 2013 Annual Security Report. Unsurprisingly, the Trustwave GSR highlights that e-commerce sites were the most targeted asset, accounting for 48%…
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…
Source: Fraud Consulting & CSCSS 13th March 2013 It was announced today that Darren Hodder, Director at Fraud Consulting Ltd has accepted the role of Vice President, Cyber Fraud Intelligence at the Centre for Strategic Cyberspace + Security Science (CSCSS), headquartered in London, UK. Be Sociable, Share! Tweet
Yesterday, an article on CBS Money Watch caught my eye: Businesses deluded about threat of cyber-attack. The article was a short introduction to a recent survey conducted by Deloitte. And isn’t it spooky that the same old things keep cropping up everywhere?… Unsurprisingly, the Deloitte report highlights that 88% of the businesses surveyed believe that they are not really…
Source: TRMG, August 2012 Download: Click here In an era of absolute dependency on the cyber technologies for most economic, commercial, political and social systems and processes, attacks or exploits that target or transit these technologies, and which may deliberately or accidentally bring said services to a halt, represent an existential threat to our globalised…
