Fraud & Identity Management
There are a number of people within the industry heralding the death of knowledge based authentication. To those people I would say, “In my humble...
A few days ago I saw an article about hackers working from Russia, while committing check fraud in the United States. In what those...
In “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” Kristan Frend touched on the vulnerabilities faced by members of our Armed Services....
By: Kristan Frend Last week I came across a news article that said the NYPD arrested 26 people who allegedly took at least $5...
By: Kennis Wong Several weeks ago, I attended and presented at Experian’s sold-out annual conference, Vision, in Phoenix, Arizona. One of the guest speakers...
With the upcoming changes to overdraft fee policies coming to the banking industry July 1st, courtesy of the Federal Reserve, banks and credit unions...
I often provide fraud analyses to clients, whereby they identify fraudsters that have somehow gotten through the system. We then go in and see...
In case you’ve never heard of it, a Babel fish is a small translator; that allows a carrier to understand anything said in any...
We’ve blogged about fraud alerts, fraud analytics, fraud models and fraud best practices. Sometimes, though, we delude ourselves into thinking that fraud prevention strategies we put...
Well, in my last blog, I was half right and half wrong. I said that individual trade associations and advocacy groups would continue to...
By: Kristan Frend I recently gave a presentation on small business fraud at the annual National Association of Credit Managers (NACM) Credit Congress. Following...
Well, here we are about two weeks from the Federal Trade Commission’s June 1, 2010 Red Flags Rule enforcement date. While this date has...
I received a call on my cell phone the other day. It was my bank calling because a transaction outside of my normal behavior pattern...
By: Ken Pruett I want to touch a bit on some of the third party fraud scenarios that are often top of mind with...
There seems to be two viewpoints in the market today about Knowledge Based Authentication (KBA): one positive, one negative. Depending on the corner you...