Tuesday, 20 January 2026

Leading fraud consultancy UK Fraud (www.ukfraud.co.uk) has identified 10 key trends that will characterise the domestic fraud prevention market in 2013. These trends are:

1. With more high quality data becoming available to fraudsters than ever before, an economy forecast to contract and the UK’s benefits spend reducing, overall fraud levels will continue to increase dramatically across the UK and the rest of Europe. Fraud hotspots most likely to be affected in 2013 include: banks and card companies, insurers, online merchants, retailers and government be it HMRC, the universal credit scheme or local authorities.

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Bracknell, UK, and San Francisco, CA: Lamar Bailey, Director of Security Research and Development with nCircle, has released his top five security threats to watch out for in 2013.

The New Year – and beyond – he predicts, will be a time of highly adaptive security threats, with four main strands - cyber-criminals, cyber-terrorists, political hacktivists and rogue employees – conspiring to create severe headaches for IT security professionals in all classes of public and private sector industries.

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SAN DIEGO, Calif.: Vigilance can report that Cubic Defense Applications, the defense systems business of Cubic Corporation (NYSE: CUB), has received a new $12.5 million order for its Instrumentable MILES Tactical Vehicle Systems (I-MILES TVS) from the U.S. Army’s Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI).

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The Iranian CERT made an announcement recently about a new piece of malware that was designed to corrupt data. In this article, Tal Be'ery, Web Research Team Leader at Imperva, shows how this type of data wiping malware seems to be a growing trend.

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  1. Layer42 Networks standardizes on Opengear Solutions to provide highest level of uptime for its customers
  2. GlobalCollect selects Alaric's Fractals for Enterprise Risk Management
  3. Over half of Chief Information Officers fail to test Cloud Vendors’ Security Systems & Procedures
  4. Endpoint Security for IGEL thin clients with DriveLock from CenterTools
  5. IT security trends in 2013: Cyber war not on the horizon
  6. Hacker claims to have access to Yahoo Servers
  7. Avecto predicts BYOD security concerns as Microsoft Tablets and ultrabooks roll out
  8. Going! G-o-i-n-g! MoD to auction off radio spectrum...g-o-i-n-g...and the hammer falls!
  9. ‘Olympics warship’ to receive £65 million upgrade
  10. “PSIM has really come of age…my main prediction for 2013 is the separation of PSIM vendors into classic market segments,” says CEO of CNL Software
  11. Panasonic and Continental Clothing’s joint- partnership pays off by delivering on time and on budget
  12. Data protection: One for all, all for one?
  13. HTS awarded patent for its LPR OCR technology
  14. Infosecurity Europe welcomes findings of latest Ernst & Young security report
  15. Data Leakage: This time, it’s personal



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