Topic: Online Fraud, Fraudsters

A while back I wrote a blog about security responsibility and how it relates to online fraud, specifically online banking fraud. This was inspired by a story about...

I am thrilled that McAfee is opening the stage to debate and to discussion with their recent white paper...

I am often amazed by the sensationalism that surrounds the words "Cyber War".

This thought struck me as I read through the results of McAfee's survey of corporate executives in their paper...

3D Secure is an XML-based protocol to add security to CNP (“Card Not Present”) transactions: think of credit cards that don’t have a magnetic swipe but are instead just a string of numbers that can be phished or captured. The operative words here are...

If I ever wanted to shine a spotlight on possible various personal flaws of mine, I need look no further than the now commonly accepted consumer activity known as eCommerce. With eCommerce, I can be lazy – who wants to actually go out to the store? With eCommerce, I can be inattentive – eh, I’ll order that last minute and ship it overnight. I can self-justify – hey, if I look online, I know I can find exactly what is wanted, so why bother doing anything else? I do all these things (Mom, Dad, if you read this – I’m sorry) with eCommerce.

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This week's Speaking of Security podcast features an interview with Joseph Menn, author and award winning writer for Financial Times. He discusses his new book, Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who Are Bringing Down the Internet.

Since the beginning of the year, RSA has uncovered several one-stop-shop call centers in the fraud underground that provide fraudsters with all the tools they need to commit fraud over the phone.

He laughed at his earlier idealism, his schoolboy vision of a brave new world in which justice would reign and men would be brothers (Émile Zola's Germinal)