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U.S. Banker December 2010 Katie Kuehner-Hebert |
Inside Jobs Large and small banks alike are dealing with a spike in fraud, much of it by trusted employees. |
Bank Technology News October 2009 James Van Dyke |
Consumers Do Want to Be Partners in Security While many bankers and technology professionals profess a belief that individuals can't be motivated to protect themselves, new Javelin research shows that more than eight in 10 online bankers view security as a shared responsibility. |
Entrepreneur May 2010 Gwen Moran |
Is Online Banking Safe? Beware the pitfalls of convenience when it comes to conducting transactions via the web. |
Bank Systems & Technology May 5, 2007 Maria Bruno-Britz |
Fraud Techniques Evolve in Parallel with Bank Products and Defenses As fraudsters' techniques evolve alongside the products and services offered by financial institutions, new steps must be introduced to stop them. |
U.S. Banker December 2009 Glen Fest |
It's a Jungle in There Financially distressed workers are becoming a prime fraud worry for banks. But is it enough to prompt more investment in prevention? |
Bank Systems & Technology February 10, 2010 Penny Crosman |
ID Fraud Grew 12% in 2009, But Wells Fargo's Fraud Losses Are Down Javelin Research's latest fraud survey finds identity fraud continues to rise, but losses are down at some banks due to fraud detection technology improvements. |
U.S. Banker September 2004 Karen Krebsbach |
Security: The Inside Job Your employees wouldn't rip you off, right? Think again. Their theft will cost banks $2.4 billion this year. |
InternetNews July 7, 2009 Alex Goldman |
FBI, DOJ Agents: We're Gaining on Cyber Crime While the Internet helps criminals organize and to reach across borders, it can also help law enforcement catch them. |
CIO June 1, 2001 Tracy Mayor |
Break Glass, Pull Handle, Call FBI If you're the victim of a security breach or a virus attack, get the feds on your side... |
InternetNews March 31, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
Internet Crime Complaints Soared 33% in 2008 Driven by problems with e-commerce transactions and fraud, complaints skyrocketed last year. |
Bank Systems & Technology December 21, 2009 Nathan Conz |
Fraud: Social Media Heightens New Threats As fraudsters increasingly seek to exploit weaknesses in consumers' defenses through social engineering schemes rather than hack vulnerabilities in banks' security systems, the need for enterprisewide solutions to detect fraud across channels is greater than ever. |
Bank Systems & Technology January 4, 2010 Penny Crosman |
As Small Business Online Banking Fraud Grows, So Do Efforts to Curb It Password controls, stronger authentication and customer PC security scans among the measures that can help defend against online banking fraud. |
Bank Technology News September 2006 |
Homeland Insecurity One of the toughest battles for bankers may be in combating online security breaches and sophisticated money laundering schemes. |
U.S. Banker June 2011 Glen Fest |
Catch Me If You Can Two years in the making, a new crime database could help banks drastically improve robbery response and prevention. |
CFO March 1, 2008 Kate Plourd |
CSI Pennsylvania A Pennsylvania district attorney uses Villanova accounting students to help root out financial crimes. |
InternetNews October 8, 2009 |
FBI Holds Its Own Phish Phry Fed crackdown nets the largest number of defendants ever charged in a cyber crime scam. |
Bank Systems & Technology December 1, 2003 Jim Middlemiss |
Fifth Third Stays Seven 'Steps' Ahead of Fraud Bank implements seven new fraud-detection systems to fight check and ID fraud. |
Bank Technology News April 2004 Michael Grebb |
Forgotten Fraud: Counterfeit Checks Banks lost $698 million from scams in 2001 |
Bank Technology News November 2008 Maria Trombly |
Mobile Insecurity: Reality or Just hype? The increasing functionality and numbers of mobile banking platforms creates the potential for mobile banking security issues, but industry watchers have widely divergent opinions about how serious the threat really is. |
Bank Systems & Technology May 25, 2006 Maria Bruno-Britz |
Small Biz Offers Big Opportunity Wells Fargo adds Employer Direct Pay, a small-business offering, reflecting wider industry focus on the segment. |
Bank Technology News May 2009 Rebecca Sausner |
Phone Fraud Advances Biometrics Fighting external fraud has become like whack-a-mole; with the online channel increasingly secure, organized crime has taken to exploiting the weaknesses in the call center |
Bank Technology News April 2009 Rebecca Sausner |
STOP, THIEF! Bankers as Partners In Crime Stopping Large financial institutions have - for a while - been looking for the ability to share more real-time robbery data, all the way to ultimately having a real-time alerting system. |
Bank Systems & Technology August 24, 2006 Nancy Feig |
BITS Releases Insider Fraud Database BITS, a nonprofit consortium of 100 of the largest U.S. financial institutions, released its own insider fraud prevention service, which consists of a list of former financial institution employees who have compromised consumer information and/or knowingly caused financial losses. |
Bank Systems & Technology June 26, 2006 Deena M. Amato-McCoy |
Closing the Door on Criminals Banks need a consistent approach to fraud assessment and prevention, otherwise they will never truly get ahead of the problem. |
Bank Technology News January 2008 Rebecca Sausner |
Infragard Alliance: Keep 'em Coming; The FBI Loves SARs The FBI publicly thanks bankers for the more than 500,000 suspicious activity reports they filed last year. |
BusinessWeek September 5, 2005 Brian Grow |
The Accidental Mortgage Detective A former stay-at-home mom is helping the FBI combat real estate fraud in Georgia. |
Bank Systems & Technology August 27, 2009 Maria Bruno-Britz |
Evolving Fraud Schemes Keep Pressure on Evolving Payments Instruments While some of the latest schemes borrow from scams past, today's fraud schemes are as sophisticated as banks' most advanced payments systems. And stopping them is still a challenge. |
Bank Systems & Technology February 29, 2008 Nancy Feig |
Internal Fraud Still a Danger as Banks Adjust Strategy Internal fraud occurs every day at banks across the world. New internal fraud-detection technologies allow banks to identify suspicious employee behavior. |
PC World March 7, 2001 Jennifer O'Neill |
FBI Battles Computer Crime 'Epidemic' Bureau works to balance tough stance with privacy rights, director says... |
Bank Technology News September 2010 Tom Leuchtner |
Patrolling the Neighborhood Cyber criminals are employing increasingly sophisticated methods to perpetrate financial crimes. |
Popular Mechanics February 2006 Brian Krebs |
It's 10 PM. Do You Know Where Your Identity Is? Global identity thieves may know their way around your computer better than you do. Learn how to protect yourself in the scary new world of zombies, RATs, Trojan horses and evil twins. |
CIO March 1, 2001 Matt Villano |
IT Autopsy No longer an obscure component of network security, computer forensics has blossomed into a science all its own... |
Bank Technology News October 2009 Michael Sisk |
Wire Fraud's Growing Threat Just how big a problem wire fraud has become is a matter of some debate -- confusion fueled in part by banks' and businesses' reluctance to speak openly about it. |
Wall Street & Technology March 18, 2008 Cory Levine |
Identity Fraud on the Decline Despite the hype, identity fraud is on the decline, according to a new survey. But as fraudsters return to traditional channels, such as phone lines, to steal the trusting public's personal information, few financial institutions have implemented multifactor authentication for telephone banking. |
InternetNews March 18, 2010 Larry Barrett |
FBI Says Cybercrime Skyrocketing A new report from the FBI says the rate of cybercrime incidents is growing rapidly at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars a year. |
InternetNews March 23, 2010 |
FBI Underboss Outlines Anatomy of a Cyber Gang As cyber criminals grow ever more sophisticated and organized, law enforcement agencies have had to step up their game to keep pace. One of the top men at the FBI shares what the bureau is doing to combat cyber crime. |
PC World October 14, 2002 Gideon F. For-Mukwai |
Nigerian E-Mail Scammers Reported On Run International authorities close in on 22 Nigerians accused of e-mail bank fraud. |
Bank Systems & Technology November 17, 2009 Maria Bruno-Britz |
Obama Orders Creation of Financial Fraud Task Force The Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force, an interagency initiative, will rely on the coordinated efforts of each member to prevent another financial crisis. The new task force replaces the Corporate Fraud Task Force. |
CFO March 1, 2011 Laton McCartney |
Where There's Smoke, There's Fraud Sarbanes-Oxley has done little to curb corporate malfeasance. Therefore, CFOs should implement a range of fraud-prevention measures. |
Bank Technology News March 2009 Mike Fenton |
It's Time For Check Fraud Detection 2.0 Banks, financial institutions, and retailers, now more than ever, need to make use of all mechanisms available to stop fraud before it happens. |
Wall Street & Technology August 22, 2007 Melanie Rodier |
Employee Fraud Not Being Properly Addressed By Financial Industry, Government, Survey Says Financial institutions widely believe employee fraud to be driven by increased access to technology, poor hiring and screening practices, and organized crime, according to a new survey. |
U.S. Banker May 2004 |
Counterfeit Checks are The Forgotten Fraud With all the attention on ID theft, old-fashioned check fraud is getting easier than ever. It may actually account for the majority of cases categorized as identity-related crime. |
Bank Technology News March 2007 John Adams |
Offline Fraud Continues to Flourish in an Online World Web fraud gets the headlines, but offline fraud accounts for a high percentage -- almost 70% -- of operating losses. It's a problem that IT pros ignore at their peril. |
BusinessWeek November 13, 2008 Mara Der Hovanesian |
Who Crossed the Line on the Street? The hunt for lawbreakers tied to toxic mortgages is under way. |
Bank Systems & Technology October 28, 2004 Ivan Schneider |
CSI: Financial Services Bankers can take a more proactive role in preventing crimes from occurring and discovering suspicious activity as it happens. |
Bank Technology News September 2010 Robin Arnfield |
Community Banks Tackle Anti-Fraud Tech Digital Resolve's Analysis Engine offers regional and community banks alerts about suspicious transactions every 10 minutes. |
U.S. Banker June 2009 Davies & Marquez-Garrett |
Financial Misconduct Is Not Just a Civil Matter The FBI is shifting more than $75 million in resources from counterterrorism work to help sort through what has been characterized as "the wreckage of the financial meltdown," and financial industry professionals are bracing themselves for the newest wave of recourse: criminal prosecution. |
AskMen.com Bernie Alexander |
Cyber Crime: The Wild West, Online Forget about breaking and entering, aggravated assault and armed robbery. Cyber crime is taking over. |
U.S. Banker December 2001 John Hackett |
Branches -- Hot New Delivery Channel With banks in a struggle for customers, branches have become in-the-field artillery. After years of fiddling with newfangled delivery channels, bankers across the nation are rediscovering that branches can be their most powerful weapons... |
InternetNews September 17, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas |
Feds Seize $87M in Counterfeit Software Sting Biggest-ever haul includes phonied Microsoft, Adobe and Symantec products. |