Security Documents & IT

• Homeowners faking filings to delay foreclosure

  27-Dec-12 - Homeowners in California are buying fake documents to delay foreclosures on their properties, a local paper reports.

• Dubai clamps down on fake documents

  18-Dec-12 - Dubai officials have detected more than 1,000 fake documents using new passport-reading and biometrics technology.

• Zimbabwe police bust fake document ring

  13-Dec-12 - Police in Zimbabwe made four arrests after finding materials for making fake passports and voter registration forms.

• Cisco developing tool to automatically detect fakes

  30-Nov-12 - Cisco releases a tool to automatically detect fake versions of its equipment on US government systems.

• NGO probed on fake USAID receipt allegations

  20-Nov-12 - Former employees of an NGO have accused it of producing forged documents to justify $5m in misused USAID donations.

• Zebra targets ticket fraud with wristband expansion

  11-Nov-12 - Zebra Technologies has expanded its wristband range to stamp out ticket fraud at entertainment venues.

• Smartphones 'raise fake boarding pass threat'

  06-Nov-12 - Smartphones have created opportunities for terrorists to fake boarding passes by manipulating barcodes, security experts warn.

• Kenyan startup builds app to spot fake documents

  05-Nov-12 - A Kenyan startup has built a mobile and web-based app to identify fake car log books and other documents.

• Trüb unveils thinnest ever datapage for passports

  02-Nov-12 - Trüb launches an e-datapage for use in passports and other identity documents that it says is the thinnest in the world.

• BT launches cloud services for BT Trace platform

  23-Oct-12 - BT says it has implemented cloud-based capabilities for BT Trace, its supply chain software platform.

• Police implicate lawyers in Indian fake document case

  17-Oct-12 - Indian police have implicated lawyers and court officials in the use of fake documents for bail bond agreements.

• Counterfeit cash found in New York bank machines

  15-Oct-12 - An alarm has alerted two Manhattan bank branches to more than $100,000 of forged money in their ATMs.

• GAO exposes flaws in US fake document detection

  08-Oct-12 - The US GAO has exposed holes in national security by using fake documents to obtain driver’s licenses.

• Ten plead guilty in US fake credit card ring

  04-Oct-12 - US attorneys secured guilty pleas from 10 people accused of using fake credit cards and driver’s licenses to buy goods.

• Keesing launches ID authentication system

  21-Sep-12 - Keesing Technologies has launched a new platform for identity document authentication called ID AuthentiScan.

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