Fraud attempts will escalate, not diminish, as new threats and channels blossom in 2011. Growth in mobile banking and the use of social networks are expected to pose new security challenges, experts say.
There have been 58 reported banking-related data breaches so far in 2010, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center -- slightly fewer than the total of 62 breaches in 2009.
"Many institutions only know about fraud when they get notified by the customer, and that is not indicative of an industry that is really trying to address the problem." George Tubin, TowerGroup
Banks and credit unions have to change the ways they invest in fraud prevention. What they need more of in 2011 are stronger cardholder authentication and more computing in the cloud.
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