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In spite of efforts to halt electronic fraud, the internet has remained a dangerous place to do business, according to a report from the European Commission. As long as there has been credit granting there have been customers committing first party fraud. Credit and charge card fraud rates increased in 2007, as more dollars were lost to fraudulent overseas online merchants, according to the Australian Payments Clearing Association (APCA). Chip and PIN credit cards are hitting Australian shores. Negar Salek, demystifies the emerging secure payment technology and its potential benefits. A report by the Australian Bureau of Statistics has revealed that over five per cent of Australians were victims of personal fraud in 2007. Despite a sluggish US economy, online shopping continues to show impressive revenue gains. Recent Forrester Research data suggests that online shopping will grow 17 percent in 2008, a far cry from what is happening in the brick-and-mortar world. The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) continues its efforts to combat health care fraud and other criminal acts against the health care system by strengthening its overall enforcement. The most effective way of tackling online fraud is to centralise detection systems, experts in the field have advised. Australians have lost nearly $120,000 to the Olympic ticket scammers, according to the NSW Office of Fair Trading's latest update. Separate data sharing intitiatives should be more closely linked Symantec has launched an online fraud consulting service aimed at stemming web-based crime.
Credit card thieves are taking advantage of the vulnerabilities in small retailers' point-of-sale check-out systems, according to a new report. A Romanian-based criminal group is behind a new trojan-laced, socially engineered email run that tries to trick recipients into believing their employer committed payroll reporting fraud, security researchers said. Societe Generale might have been able to prevent a year-long binge of fraudulent transactions by one of its mid-level traders simply by instituting stricter password controls and applying available software that tracks transactions to individual workstations, according to analysts. PayPal has agreed to acquire Fraud Sciences, a vendor of online transaction-verification tools. A year filled with high-profile retail data breaches has made consumers more aware of the dangers of online fraud, new research claims.. People using social networking sites are at risk of becoming victims of identity theft, warned a credit information provider. Parisexposed.com oversight reveals credit card details. Australians are more concerned about the misuse of their personal information and credit card theft rather than national security in a terrorism related event, according to an August Newspoll survey commissioned by Unisys. Organisations that hold personal data should be made liable for fraudulent transactions, say BT security experts.