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  • MasterCard bites back on Aust credit card hacking

    A rise in credit card transactions via the Internet, phone and mail-order is prompting card heavyweights to promote tougher security standards for transaction data, according to MasterCard.

  • Biometrics special: Who are you?

    Forgotten your password again? Read on to find out how you'll be logging on, checking in, and signing off in the very near future.

  • National fraud database may be linked to RTA records

    Baycorp Advantage claims to be close to linking its national FraudCheck system to the Roads and Traffic Authority's driver's licence database.

  • AU government's eyes are on you

    The federal government has announced plans to link individual databases in different departments together to create an uber-database containing personal information that will be available to official agencies.

  • Biometrics: the key to call centre fraud?

    Privy to confidential information, call centre agents are the weakest link in the telephone transaction. Will speaker verification step into the ring as a solution here or will it continue to be overlooked as a viable security strategy?

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  • Biometrics special: Who are you?

    Forgotten your password again? Read on to find out how you'll be logging on, checking in, and signing off in the very near future.

  • Identity fraud costs Australia AU$1 billion a year

    Identity fraud cost the Australian community AU$1.1 billion in 2001/02, according to a report released by a senior Minister, who also acknowledged the rapid subsequent growth of the problem.

  • One billion passports to get biometrics, RFID by 2015

    Civil liberties groups from both sides of the Atlantic have joined forces to oppose the proposed introduction and cross-border sharing of biometrics and RFID in more than one billion passports worldwide.

  • Caught in a phishing trap?

    The rise in online identity fraud has companies on the hook: Either educate customers or lose them.

  • AU phishing scams to get worse

    Online fraudsters are getting smarter and the current round of "phishing scams" may just be the start, according Australian High Tech Crime Centre (AHTCC) head Alastair MacGibbon.

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