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SKIMMING LATEST
BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
CREDIT card fraudsters in the US and Canada are placing new kinds of skimming bugs to steal credit and charge card numbers from terminals used by north American retailers and restaurants.
Cardweb, a Maryland-based payment card information network, has claimed that tiny pieces of hardware are being planted by a fraudster working in a restaurant or shop.…
CVC - LENZING
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to open an in-depth investigation into the planned acquisition of the Austrian man-made fibres group Lenzing by the London-based multinational CVC Capital Partners Group. The latter company already controls Acordis, which produces man-made fibres for industrial, textile, medical and hygiene applications in Austria.…
EMEA ETC
BY ALAN OSBORN
A MAJOR extension of the powers of the European Medicines Evaluation Agency (EMEA) has been proposed by the European Commission as part of a sweeping reform of EU pharmaceutical legislation. At present the EMEA authorises only the use of high profile medicines derived from biotechnology, such as those used for cancer, AIDS, multiple schlerosis and Alzheimers disease among others.…
eSecurityOnline
Alan Osborne
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STELLA-CAM
BY KATE REW
FOR bar and pub drinkers bored by their regular social company, Belgian beer company Stella Artois and Internet consumer-site beer.com have set up a network of web-cameras, called StellaCam. It is supposedly the world’s first two-way interactive webcam and allows users to drink beer with punters all over the globe through high-speed connections with a video and audio link.…
STELLACAM
BY KATE REW
BORED by the Vera and Jack Duckworth’s down the local? If so, head for your computer and pay a virtual visit to a pub of your choice: when you ‘see someone you’d like to get to know,’ as the logo says, then ‘click here and get them a beer’.…
Document S.O.S. (good pictures available from Georgine Thorburn at given number)
Alan Osborne
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34, Abbey Business Centre
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Tel: 20 7498 8080
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Believe it or not. a completely burnt sheet of paper can be reconstituted and all the writing on it made perfectly legible again.…
BAMFIELD PIECE
Keith Nuthall
THE MAN who launched ‘Sue-a-Shoplifter Ltd’ in Britain, perched on a settee in the meeting room of the Institute of Directors in London and told me that he was working for fun.
Not for Professor Joshua Bamfield the lure of lucre generated by the 45 per cent commission on damages or the mantle of the country’s greatest crime-buster, but instead academic curiosity, a project in his chosen subject, retail crime.…
DISASTER CONFERENCE
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE GLOBAL financial system, and in particular its American players, coped well with the attack on the World Trade Centre on September 11th but doubts remain about the robustness of the financial services sector in general, and some individual companies in particular, to withstand any new outrages.…