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A recent study analyzing 384,000 free mobile apps found that nearly 20,000 of these apps use aggressive or malicious ad networks putting...

A recent Forbes headline read “Is Click Fraud A Ticking Time Bomb Under Google?” referencing the billions in revenue Google makes each...

The DNSChanger malware, which spread to more than 500,000 devices in the U.S. and 4 million worldwide, redirected the web browsers on...

It was recently revealed that Sprint is preparing a mobile platform and wallet called Touch Wallet and Apple demoed a new addition to...

Although spending on Visa credit cards increased in April and May from a year ago, overall volume processed on U.S. Visa cards was down 3...

Dwolla, an alternative cash based payment network, enables consumers to make retail payments and peer-to-peer transfers over their hybrid...

In June Square announced that they are now processing $6 billion annually while VeriFone and Intuit compete with similar product...

eBay owned PayPal first announced their mobile wallet and push into Customer Present payments in late 2011. Now following trials with...

A former employee at Saks Fifth Avenue faces felony credit card abuse charges after using fraudulent credit cards opened in the names of...

CIFAS, a fraud prevention membership association in the UK, reported that internal fraud in the United Kingdom increased 14.5 percent in...

A recent survey and report from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners focused on fraud occurring at the workplace. The study...

Former New Hampshire Department of Motor Vehicle employee Donna Rockholt was sentenced to eight to twenty-eight years in prison on...

Two Louisiana residents were arrested and charged with multiple accounts of fraud and identity theft after a retail clerk used stolen...

In late May the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced they will soon formalize regulations for prepaid cards to better protect...

Sarasota, FL, May 16, 2012 / Internal Release - Since the onset of the Internet in the early nineteen-nineties governments have adapted...

In recent years it has become more common for employers to require job applicants and current employees to provide their passwords for...

On May 9 the U.S. Senate held a discussion on the proposed Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights which seeks to establish the framework for...

The Federal Trade Commission has accused the social networking website Myspace of providing user data to third parties without user...

The Netherlands recently passed net neutrality legislation becoming the first country in the European Union to do so and only the second...

The European Union’s Cookie Directive was adopted by member states in late May of 2011, but allowing up to a year to implement the...