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,…
Source: www.accounting-degree.org An informative infographic from accounting-degree.org: Source: Accounting-Degree.org The 10 Worst Corporate Accounting Scandals of All Time If there is one theme to rival terrorism for defining the last decade-and-a-half, it would have to be corporate greed and malfeasance. Many of the biggest corporate accounting scandals in history happened during that time. Here’s a chronological look…
Do you? I do and I’ve been doing it since I said “I do.” And if you are married or at least in a committed lifelong relationship, knowing each other’s passwords is probably expected. Today, sharing passwords has become a sign of commitment, a signal of love and devotion, like a varsity sweater or friendship…
Source: SNL, Fraud Consulting Ltd, 12th February 2013 The following article is reproduced with the kind permission of SNL Kagan Security concerns and password issues will increasingly become a problem in 2013, while 4K TVs and LTE adoption will gain momentum, industry experts have told SNL Kagan. “The need for Internet security and anti-virus software…
Source: iovation, 10th September 2012 According to iovation, Linux devices have the highest percentage of fraudulent transactions originating from them. The company came to its findings by analyzing fraudulent transactions as a percentage of overall transactions from each mobile and fixed Internet device it tracked from January to July 2012. Be Sociable, Share! Tweet
Source: i-Sight, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
A summary of the 2012 ACFE Report to the Nations, neatly repackaged as an infographic by i-Sight…
A neat infographic from MoneySupermarket.com…
“Identity fraud is referred to as a silent crime due to the amount of time it can take to uncover the problem. On average in 2009 it took victims 416 days to discover their identity had been compromised – more than enough time for the fraudsters to wreak significant damage on the victim’s finances and credit score.”
