RSA Security's Cyota division is helping fight phishing attacks by giving the online fraudsters what they want: a lot of usernames, passwords, online-banking credentials and credit card numbers. …
Seven arrested in online fraud crackdown
The U.S. Secret Service arrested seven people across the nation this week as part of an ongoing investigation that has turned up links to the massive debit-card breaches which have worried banks and …
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U.S. Contractor Found Guilty of $3 Million Fraud in Iraq
In the first corporate whistle-blower case to emerge from Iraq, a federal jury in Virginia yesterday found a contractor, Custer Battles L.L.C., guilty of defrauding the United States by filing grossly …
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New debit card fraud tied to West Coast case
A spate of fraudulent debit card charges in Massachusetts, New Mexico and Bermuda is being linked to a case that led some West Coast financial institutions last month to replace 200,000 cards. …
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ID theft tops list of fraud complaints
Identity theft continues to plague consumers, topping the list of fraud complaints reported to the Federal Trade Commission last year. Consumers filed more than 255,000 identity theft reports to the …
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Some Iraqi Ballot Boxes Tossed Amid Fraud
Iraq's election commission said Monday that ballot boxes at 227 voting centers were being thrown out because of fraud, but the decision was not expected to affect overall results of the Dec. 15 vote. …
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U.K. official: Fight online fraud with iPods
A senior manager at a British government agency has come up with an alternative to the U.K.'s identity card scheme: Give everyone a free iPod installed with a digital certificate. Patrick Cooper, the …
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ATM fraudsters benefit from better tech
The equipment used by the current crop of automatic teller machine thieves is improving. Last week, police asked for aid in locating thieves that stole $100,000 from New York City cash machines using …
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Liberia election body dismisses Weah fraud claim
Liberian electoral authorities on Friday dismissed international soccer star George Weah's claims that fraud had robbed him of victory in a presidential run-off vote last month, but his party vowed to …
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Govt: Fake Web Site Registrations Churn Online Fraud
The U.S. Government Accountability Office released a report Wednesday that points to a serious problem that is contributing to the proliferation of fraudulent phishing and scam Web sites -- the …
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