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Cyber "bad events" analysis questions opinions and assumptions.

There are many reports saying that this or that country is the source of the majority of spam, hacking or other internet harms.

But there is one dataset, open to all, that contains relevant and accurate information drawn from active websites all over the world and what that tells us is not what we think we know.

CoNet Section: 
IT & Communications

Payments company World Remit reports fraud; registrar suggests names to criminals.

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World Remit (www.worldremit.com) says that it has learned that there are at least two fake websites.

CoNet Section: 
IT & Communications

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Company named in fraud trial had been flagged by advertising authorities

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In the trials (there were two) of Peter Hall, et al, for fraud, a company, TAD Services Limited was named.

There's a interesting back-story - and Google makes a guest appearance as a company that was paid to participate in the scam.

CoNet Section: 
Advertising

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Online fraud Insurance: a viable business model? Part 2

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To rescue the UK's economy from the 1973-75 crisis, one of the measures adopted was to increase consumer credit and to reduce the constraints on lending. One concept has been a contributory factor to almost every financial crisis, in the UK and elsewhere, since: the ability of the banks to lay off risk for bad lending decisions.

In Part two of his examination of the question of insurance against on-line crime, Nigel Morris-Cotterill says welcome to the world of insurance as an excuse for negligence.

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