How fraudsters deal in data
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There is a ready market for the data lost by the HMRC say computer security experts.
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When it comes to digital data, anyone can find out who you are and what you are doing.
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Thousands of credit card numbers and other personal data may have been compromised.
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Criminals are not the only ones profiting from identity theft; financial institutions are making money, too.
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Meg Whitman describes how eBay, Paypal are combating phony e-mails and Web sites that may ensnare unsuspecting users--and drive away customers.
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Organisations are risking seeing sensitive information ending up in the wrong hands, because they are failing to ensure that their unwanted PCs are properly datawiped.
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Internet fraudsters have developed a sophisticated new method of using e-mails to capture internet banking customers&#39; details.
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Rise in online identity fraud has companies on the hook: Educate customers or lose them.
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Disguised con artists want your personal information -- and you may be offering it to them.
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It's warcraft out there Online games have become a major target for fraud in recent years. A study from Kaspersky Labs, published today, dissects the techniques and targets used by hackers to make "easy money" by selling stolen login credentials of users or in-game items on the black market.â¦
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Robert Vamosi talks with data loss expert Dan Geer about identity theft.
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Responding to an increase in Internet fraud, some banks and brokerage firms plan to begin issuing small devices that would help their customers prove their identities.
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Many 'contactless' credit cards can leak their owner's name and card number for reading at a distance.
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A customer filed a $54 million lawsuit against Best Buy for losing an $1100 laptop she took in for service. The reason, exposure to identity theft.  It's about time vendors were forced to recognize the value of customers' data. I recall how the chief genius at the Apple store in Emeryville complained that they would have to eat the cost of the drive in a deal they made with the manufacturer. Someday they'll have a clue that the data on most drives is worth far more than the hardware, and that their potential liability, if the data ends up in the hands of an identity thief, is also much greater.
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Point-of-sale (POS) systems pose a clear but often overlooked danger to consumer credit card data, according to a whitepaper from Hacker Factor Solutions.
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Revelations of corporate fraud are dependent on a wide range of sometimes unlikely players.
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By Chandra Devi  HOAX and scams are getting bolder these days leveraging on high speed technology to get faster and more results.