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World-class scammers vie for Olympic gold

August 7th, 2012
Posted in Breach Prevention

Swimmers may be stealing the spotlight, but it’s scammers who are taking home the gold–in the form of stolen credit card numbers, PINs, consumers’ personal identities. One familiar con trotted out this year (and every Olympics) is ticket fraud, including what Britons call ‘ticket touting’ (scalping) and its more sinister cousin, counterfeiting. Paying for tickets [...][ READ MORE ]

The top 5 cyber security threats to future of mobile banking

July 24th, 2012
Posted in Breach Prevention

As mobile banking grows in popularity, so do the dangers of data breach and identity theft. In fact, these data security dangers are so significant they could threaten the future of the mobile financial services industry. To get a better understanding of the industry’s cyber security woes, a powerful trade group conducted a comprehensive survey [...][ READ MORE ]

Mobile smishing attacks are on the rise

December 21st, 2010
Posted in Breach Prevention . Identity Theft

Mobile devices are important tools to efficiently manage a business and to quickly meet the needs of a customer. Think about the hit in productivity you’d take if you lost your smart phone or PDA. Several weeks ago I wrote about the importance of implementing a wireless data policy to protect employee account data from [...][ READ MORE ]