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SOCA and the FBI shut down sites used to sell credit card data


The Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) and the FBI have taken down 36 websites being used to sell stolen bank card details and three people linked to the sites have been arrested.   Two men have been arrested in the …
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How to keep safe from fraud:


“Your personal information is valuable, so, protect it.”   This is the key message from the recently launched campaign by the National Fraud Authority, Telecommunications UK Fraud Forum (TUFF) and Financial Fraud Action UK.   The campaign, ‘The Devil’s in …
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Managed Services Centre’s Online Threat Predictions for 2012


As mentioned in a previous post, 2012 is deemed to be the year of Identity Fraud. One of the contributing factors to this is the increase in sophistication of cybercriminal activities and the methods used to access and steal data …
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Are you aware of Key-Logging and should you be worried?


Over the last year we have dealt with an increase in cases whereby our customers’ or those of our customers’, PC’s have been infected with key-loggers. Key-loggers will steal all information entered into a computer and then the cybercriminals will …
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MSC Offer Extended Services


As MSC continues to expand its customer base of banks and building societies we are conscious that cybercrime is becoming more and more an integral part of our customers’ everyday worries. With years of experience in this field MSC has …
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