These articles have been tagged under 'fraud' by the bigmouthmedia team.
Britain developing e-crime reporting portal
British computer security experts have announced their intention to create a portal that would help report and pool information on internet crime.
Yahoo! appoints click fraud chief
Yahoo! has promoted one of its staff lawyers, Mr Reggie Davis, to the position of Click Fraud Tsar. Mr Davis has been assigned to tackling the problem of click fraud and the effect it has on advertisers' confidence.
Read no evil: new British law prohibits phony blogs
Thanks to a new law passed by the British Parliament, companies advertising in the UK will soon have to steer clear of shill reviews and "flogs", or phony blogs.
Yahoo!'s click fraud prevention methods
Last June, Yahoo! had a class action suit filed against them, due to the problem of click fraud. How are Yahoo! improving their service, and do their modifications go far enough?
Social Engineering: the next Web 2.0 thread
With the rise of Web 2.0 and online networks, experts predict a dramatic rise in hacker attacks in 2007.
2006 was simply Spamtastic
Despite the best efforts of online industry leaders and security specialist, 2006 saw the number of spam attacks rise to new heights.
Phishing for spam - hook, line and sinker
Spam and phishing attacks skyrocket in 2006, with new 'types' of attacks being reported on an increasingly regular basis.
VISA roll out the UK's first "pay as you go" voucher for wary online shoppers.
Visa has identified an untapped market of "non-converters", i.e. those that want to shop online but don't, and has created the UK's first pay-as-you-go VISA Voucher as a possible remedy.
Less Spam, more Phish: Social networking latest target for phishing and identity fraud
Could the threat from online fraud stop the runaway success of social networking sites in their tracks?
Skype Spam
The latest form of spam to grace the web sees spammers sending unsolicited messages to new Skype accounts.
