Posts Tagged ‘Online Fraud’

The Red Flags Rule Go Into Effect November 1

23, Oct 2009

This blog entry is the beginning of a series of articles written by members of the FraudRating team about the Red Flag Rules.  In addition to developing a product, we believe that we are going to be a source of education for Businesses, Government and the Education market.  Please take note of these articles, as [...]

FraudRating Beta Getting Closer

24, Sep 2009

FraudRating, an easy to implement, cost effective anti fraud solution for card not present and other online ecommerce providers is close to being ready to be tested. Please contact us at sales@fraudrating.com if you are interested in signing up for our Beta Test program.

CMO study: Marketers fear increase in brand infection

11, May 2009

In times of a slow economy, marketers see a lot of danger for brand integrity by fakes, frauds and infringements. The Chief Marketing Office (CMO) Council asked in a global audit of 306 marketers, sponsored by MarkMonitor, how marketers view threats to online and offline brand attacks. The results reveal that top marketers see online [...]

Startup Takes New Spin On Online Fraud Detection

11, May 2009

A security startup is preparing to emerge from stealth mode with a new technology that detects in real-time whether an online user or member of a social network is legitimate — and not a bot, automated tool, or criminal performing financial or other online fraud.
 
Pramana, which will officially launch in July, has developed what [...]

Fingerprinting Protects Privacy in Fighting Online Fraud

11, May 2009

There has been some recent discussion in different articles regarding whether or not device identification, also referred to as device fingerprinting, when used to fight online fraud, constitutes a violation of privacy. The topic came up recently at a panel at RSA on the Benefits and Dangers of Device Fingerprinting. The essence of the discussion [...]

Who’s most at risk online?

30, Apr 2009

Students are placing themselves at the greatest risk of online fraud compared to any other adult demographic in the UK, according to a new study (1) from GetSafeOnline.org.
Highest risk group: Students
- Internet users in full-time education (2) are almost twice as confident online as other internet users – more than half (51%) consider themselves ‘very’ internet [...]

Fraudsters Filch $4 Billion Online in 2008

23, Apr 2009

Key take-aways from the 10th annual CyberSource survey include:
-Projected dollar losses to U.S. eCommerce will hit a record $4 billion in 2008 due to online fraud (up from $3.7 billion in 2007).
-Merchants expect to lose 1.4% of their online revenue to fraud–this rate has held constant for the last 3 years.
-This year merchants accepted a [...]


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