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Top 10 Risks to Banks in 2009

Posted by John B. Frank Tuesday, December 9, 2008

In an article written by Linda McGlasson, the Managing Editor of Bank Info Security, she takes a look at the 10 Greatest Risks to Banks in 2009. 
1. ATM Network Fraud

According to Paul Kocher, president and chief scientist of Cryptography Research Institute, the number one area that institutions will see fraud growing over the next year is in ATM networks.

"When the criminal gets access to magnetic stripe data and associated PIN values, they are then able to create cards, and basically then it's a license to print money," Kocher explains.

Another problem for institutions is that their ability to perform risk management is significantly less on an ATM network than online transactions. "This is because the ATM delivers the goods to the consumer immediately to them, which is exactly what the fraudsters want -- the cash, rather than a large ticket item they have to then fence or resell," he concludes.

Kocher predicts that until U.S. financial institutions and credit card companies roll out either a contact or contactless-based smart card infrastructure, there won't be a great reduction in the amount of fraud being perpetrated against U.S. consumers. "Once they decide to do this, it will cause a great reduction in the amount of fraud, because we've seen it happen in Europe," says Kocher.  (continue reading

Here's the rest of the top five according to BIS:

2. Check Fraud
3. Laser-Guided Precision Strikes
4. Phishing
5. Check Image Fraud



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