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Phishing reaches record levels in July

The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) revealed its research on the increase of Phishing - schemes which hijack brand identities to steal your credit card or sensitive financial personal information.

Security threats for consumers and companies in 2007

The increase in fraud around online banking has come to the attention of the House of Lords and representatives from payments association APACS and Visa have been questioned by the Science and Technology Committee. This comes in the same week that web security company ScanSafe predicts mounting concern over potential abuse of AJAX and web 2.0 applications next year.

£600,000 lost to phishing attack

The most costly online attack to date has resulted in a loss of 8 million kronor (£600,000). Customers using the online banking services of Swedish Bank Nordea found money missing from their bank accounts after they had downloaded an anti-spam programme containing a trojan.

Financial services deploy against online fraudsters

While card fraud has been dropping in most situations where payment cards are used online, the banks and building societies have seen fraud increase in recent years. Barclays Bank and Nationwide Building Society have introduced measures to combat the fraudsters.

ShopAds

The idea of transactional banner ads has reared its head again this week. At first glance, the concept is enticing — your products on display all across the web with customers able to pop a product into a shopping basket and pay for it all within one simple banner ad space and without ever leaving their web page. But previous attempts to make the concept work have failed to take off. Will it be different this time?

Transactional Widgets

The idea of transactional banner ads has reared its head again this week. At first glance, the concept is enticing — your products on display all across the web with customers able to pop a product into a shopping basket and pay for it all within one simple banner ad space and without ever leaving their web page. But previous attempts to make the concept work have failed to take off. Will it be different this time?

Transactional banner ads pop up again — but will they take off?

The idea of transactional banner ads has reared its head again this week. At first glance, the concept is enticing — your products on display all across the web with customers able to pop a product into a shopping basket and pay for it all within one simple banner ad space and without ever leaving their web page. But previous attempts to make the concept work have failed to take off. Will it be different this time?