Fungible Credentials and Next-Generation Fraud.
The article discusses computer fraud in the era of global digitization. Computer and network technology allows white collar criminals to operate more efficiently and with less risk across a global area. Digital fraud consisting of embezzlement, and violation of intellectual property laws do far more...
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 49; no. 12; pp. 15 - 20 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Dec2006
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| Sumario: | The article discusses computer fraud in the era of global digitization. Computer and network technology allows white collar criminals to operate more efficiently and with less risk across a global area. Digital fraud consisting of embezzlement, and violation of intellectual property laws do far more economic damage than physical crimes, though they often go unreported. The author details one of the major entry sources to digital fraud: the creation of fungible identification documents through identity theft. |
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