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By: Steve Wyatt, Practice Principal | eCommerce Consultant, The Fraud Practice Time is up, the 4th quarter is here and eCommerce fraud...

According to reports from the U.S. Secret Service and Kaspersky Labs, malware known as Backoff has been used to attack more than 1,000...

The latest figures on card fraud losses in the United Kingdom, coming from industry group Financial Fraud Action UK, support the...

FIS Inc. announced the acquisition of Brussels-based payment technology company Clear2Pay for €375 ($493.3) million in early September....

While there have been many successful efforts to bring international fraudsters to justice in U.S. courts, this often requires...

Visa launched their e-wallet, V.me, in late 2011, but this was discontinued in July, 2014 in favor of Visa’s new, although quite similar...

ACI Worldwide announced their acquisition of an industry veteran fraud solution provider Retail Decisions (ReD) for $205 million in cash...

Kroger, the largest pure grocery store chain by sales in the United States, recently purchased online vitamin merchant Vitacost.com for...

A fraudster calling himself Oleg Pliss is targeting Apple iPhones and iPads with an attack that prevents the user from unlocking the...

Hackers and data breaches have compromised the personal information of 110 million Americans just in the last twelve months, affecting 47...

The new survey presented by The Fraud Practice and CardinalCommerce asked nearly 450 organizations worldwide the most pertinent questions...

According to estimates from fraud prevention startup Trustev, there are 250 million compromised payment card numbers for sale in the...

All organizations need to be thinking about the future of user authentication and the heavy reliance on passwords which may be on the...

October 2015 is the deadline for switching credit cards and readers to EMV/Chip & PIN technology in the US. At this point fraud liability...

A study performed on UK customers by Experian found that consumers on average will abandon transactions when identity checks take 7...

The Fraud Practice is offering a 10% discount to all who sign up for the eCommerce Fraud Professional Certification by March 31st. The...

Point-of-Sale mobile payments at Starbucks reached $1 billion in 2013. The focus on mobile coupons and loyalty programs with the...

MasterCard has entered an agreement to acquire C-SAM, mobile wallet provider and transactions provider behind ISIS, the mobile wallet...

Cybercriminals target the vulnerable and popular Android mobile platform through banking Trojans. 98% of mobile malware batters Android...

The FBI and US Postal Inspection Service recently assumed control of fakeplastic.net, a massive and well organized online operation...