UK card and check crime drops while online banking fraud rises
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| A report released by UK payments association Apacs has revealed that card
| and check crime in the UK has witnessed a drop for the year 2006, while
| online banking fraud has climbed significantly over the year.
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http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=4920B166-5B5C-498A-9BC6-D64720ED360F
Sadly, everyone shares the financial burden. Same with the ISP (network
capacity for zombies), the corporate software licences (Windows and Office
mass/bulk licensing), and general security which is costing tri/billions.
The lost productivity is another matter altogether.
Related:
Online banking fraud 'up 8,000%'
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| The UK has seen an 8,000% increase in fake internet banking scams
| in the past two years, the government's financial watchdog has warned.
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| The Financial Services Authority (FSA) told peers it was "very concerned"
| about the growth in "phishing".
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6177555.stm
International Hacker gang nets 300,000 from bank robbery, tells Sophos
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| According to Sophos, law enforcement agencies claim that the gang worked
| alongside three Russian hackers, who provided them with banking usernames
| and passwords stolen through spyware.
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| The Russian hackers are said to have shared the password information
| of thousands of unsuspecting Turkish internet users in exchange for
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| ten percent of the money stolen.
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http://www.irishdev.com/NewsArticle.aspx?id=5121
Swedish bank hit by 'biggest ever' online heist
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| Haxdoor typically installs keyloggers to record keystrokes, and
| hides itself using a rootkit. The payload of the .ki variant of
| the Trojan was activated when users attempted to log in to the
| Nordea online banking site. According to the bank, users were
| redirected to a false home page, where they entered important
| log-in information, including log-in numbers.
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39285547,00.htm
'9 out of 10 e-mails now spam'
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| Criminal gangs using hijacked computers are behind a surge in unwanted
| e-mails peddling sex, drugs and stock tips.
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| The number of "spam" messages has tripled since June and now accounts for
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| as many as nine out of 10 e-mails sent worldwide, according to U.S. email
| security company Postini.
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| [...]
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| "E-mail systems are overloaded or melting down trying to keep up with all
| the spam," said Dan Druker, a vice president at Postini.
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/11/27/uk.spam.reut/index.html?eref=rss_tech
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