by Robert Siciliano — speaker, IDTheftSecurity.com
Mobile computing is the new frontier of personal technology. Whether you are on a phone or tablet, if you have a carrier connection, you are mobile.
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The cybercrime landscape is always growing and changing as hackers look for new ways to make money. Last year was no different as McAfee Labs found huge growth…
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Imagine that your body is being targeted by 75 million viruses. That is exactly what's happening to digital devices at any given moment. And smartphones and…
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Contactless technology offers many benefits over magnetic stripe technology, including faster and easier transactions, versatility to be incorporated into…
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Experian's Chris Ryan addressed five major questions about compliance with the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council's recent guidance on banking…
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EMV, which stands for Europay, MasterCard and Visa, refers to the chip and PIN payment card technology commonly used in Europe and elsewhere around the world.
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In what is considered "the largest identity theft takedown in U.S. history," 111 individuals were indicted for "stealing the personal credit information of…
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Criminals often target cash machines, as well as various other automated kiosks that dispense DVDs, tickets or other merchandise. They have discovered numerous…
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Consumers enjoy a certain level of protection that business bank accounts do not, and it’s called “Regulation E.”
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Identity theft victims don’t need Jessica Van Vliet, an assistant professor in counseling psychology at the University of Alberta, to tell them that they no…
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Mobile banking is on the rise for more reasons than convenience. In truth, it’s more secure than traditional online baking. Accessing your bank's mobile…
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FFIEC is the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, which is a government body empowered to prescribe uniform principles, standards and report…
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Today, there are more than 2.2 million ATMs worldwide, and by 2015 there will be around 3 million. ATM skimming accounts for as much as 30 percent of all data…
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Even more amazing is that if a criminal were caught gluing ATM keys, he would most likely only receive a misdemeanor vandalism charge, as opposed to a larceny…
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Former Google Android security framework engineer Chris Palmer, who is now technology director of the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation, addresses the…
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The Federal Trade Commission recently released the list of the most common consumer complaints in 2010. Identity theft topped the list for the eleventh year in…
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The latest ATM scam is so brilliantly simple, it’s hard to believe that it actually works. Apparently, banks’ fraud detection systems are unable to flag nearly…
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ATM skimming, the top ATM-related crime, accounts for about $350,000 in fraud every day in the United States, exceeding a billion dollars a year.
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Credit card fraud is a multi-billion dollar industry. Skimming is one of the financial industry’s fastest-growing crimes, according to the U.S. Secret Service.
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A report issued by the FTC finds that customers in the process of withdrawing cash from ATMs are more likely to be victims of ATM fraud than a direct, physical…
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