After a brief break from our conference schedule this year, EVS is gearing up for the MidWest Acquirers Association 8th Annual Conference.

The recent surge in smart phone popularity has made the versatile mobile devices a prime target for hackers and identity thieves.

Part of staying at the forefront of fraud prevention is examining the vulnerabilities on both the business and consumer side of everyday transactions.

Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and other popular social networking sites are coming under federal scrutiny both here in the U.S. and abroad over their privacy settings for users accounts.

No matter how well you think you know the tactics employed by identity thieves, the fast paced and deceptive nature of business fraud can still be surprising.

By now, most everyone is familiar with the basic principals of fraudulent e mails, or "phishing" e-mails, that attempt to fool recipients into surrendering personal information.

Spam e-mails are a popular method of delivering malicious software usually in the form of an attachment or a link pointing unsuspecting readers toward infected websites.