Well it’s been a good year for our blog. We’ve tried to address a number of topics all relevant to helping businesses fight online fraud. As the year wraps up, I thought it would be a good time to summarize some of the themes from the year and highlight some of our posts. While we touched on a number of topics, a few main themes remained consistent:

Device reputation is an important component of best practice fraud management – 2009 was a difficult year for business, but one trend that emerged was an increased visibility into how valuable device fingerprinting and reputation solutions can be as part of any sophisticated fraud prevention architecture. Some of our articles on this topic:

• The First Five Benefits You Will See From Device Reputation
• Not All IP Addresses are Created Equally
• Device Fingerprinting Techniques – Several Choices

Online retailers are under attack – Online retailers continue to find themselves under attack and we touched on this topic a number of times this year. Here are some of the highlights:

• Online Merchants Are the Real Victims of Identity Theft
• Interview with Merchant Risk Council Executive Director, Tom Donlea
• Fighting Friendly Fraud With Device Reputation

Online games continue to attract attackers – Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) games continue to be a favorite target of hackers. Financial fraud coupled with theft of accounts, virtual assets and exploitation of in-game economies through gold farming all pose serious threats to the online gaming industry. Some of the highlights:

• iovation Interviewed at Casual Connect on Protecting MMOs from Fraud
• Virtual Money is the Most Popular Digital Good
• Fighting MMO Fraud and Abuse isn’t Child’s Play

Online dating scams threaten virtual communities – Online romance scams are a prevalent and serious threat to online dating sites. Stopping scams and preserving the customer experience are necessary in order to ensure a healthy future for online dating industry as a whole. Some of our articles on this topic:

• Online dating scams, the biggest threat to a growing industry
• Social networks and malware, a potent combination
• Online Dating – Blocking the Bad Guys

Fraudsters and scammers continue to organize – Fraudsters are working together more than ever to defraud online businesses. We have touched on this topic a number of times throughout the year:

• Exposing Online Fraud Rings – Untangling the Web
• Botnets – Propagating Threats, DoS, and Identity Theft
• Conficker Starts Up Botnet to Enable Online Fraud

We hope you have found some (or all) of these posts interesting and valuable. We look forward to exploring many new topics relevant to the fight against fraud in 2010.

Tags: device fingerprint, device reputation, iovation blog, MMO, Online Fraud, scammer

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