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Wednesday, March 24, 2004
 Details of the the North East Fraud Forum Annual Conference, to be held on the 10th and 11th of May 2004 are available. The venue is again to be St. James's Park, home of Newcastle United FC .
The conference is covering Identity Theft and Retail Fraud especially and includes speakers from The Metropolitan Police as well as representation by local forces such as Durham and Northumbria; retail experts from Marks & Spencer, Superdrug and the British Retail Consortium, and financial industry experts from APACS; HSBC; Barclaycard and Mastercard.
Key topics will be : Identity Theft; Payment Card Fraud; Retail Fraud; and Catering Fraud
Related Links
North East Fraud Forum
APACS Card Watch web site with special focus on 'plastic card fraud'
Card Security Week 10-15 November 2003 Keeping Your Card Safe on the New High Street
Chip and PIN programme in the UK
CIFAS - The UK's Fraud Prevention Service
posted by Robert Campbell 12:48 PM
 GreyMagic's latest security advisory GM#005-MC, details of a seemingly new method of remotely exploitable cross-site scripting using IE are revealed. The vulnerability exploits the +TIME multimedia extensions for IE could enable web mail applications such as HOTMAIL or Yahoo, and likely others, to be used to compromise the computers of users of those mail systems. Hotmail has patched their systems
With the recent emergence of increasingly sophisticated phishing attacks such as the one recently focused against the MBNA bank; one can see that this may lead to some further developments in this area making them more difficult to detect even by the more aware user.
Related Links
GreyMatter Secure Web Browsing Initiative
Britain sees surge in 'phishing'
Association for Payment Clearing Services (APACS)
MBNA latest in phishing expedition
posted by Robert Campbell 11:46 AM
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