Category Archives: Payments

Card Not Present fraud shows no sign of turning

The Australian Payments Clearing Association (APCA) releases card fraud statistics every six months for the...

Making cyber safe like cars

This is an updated version of arguments made in Lockstep’s submission to the 2009 Cyber...

Safeguarding the pedigree of personal attributes

The problem of identity takeover The root cause of much identity theft and fraud today...

Calling for a uniform approach to card fraud, offline and on

This blog is an edited extract from an article of the same name, first published...

The ROI for breaching Target

An unhappy holiday for Target customers A week before Christmas, Target in the US revealed...

A serious advance in mobile device authentication

IBM Zurich researcher Diego Ortiz-Yepes recently revealed a new Two Factor Authentication technique in which...

Any ideas to curtail CNP fraud?

The Australian Payments Clearing Association (APCA) releases card fraud statistics every six months for the...

Card fraud in Australia even worse than feared

Seasoned security analysts know the card fraud trends, but the latest stats in Australia are...

For all the talk of ecosystems …

Yet another breathless report crossed my desk via Twitter this morning where the rise of...

Killing two frauds with one chip

Last week saw the biggest credit card data breach for a while, with around 1.5...