Cybercrime
A former U.S. Secret Service agent already convicted for stealing bitcoins from the now-defunct underground marketplace Silk Road has been handed another prison sentence...
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Fraud & Identity Theft
Signal has also made a security announcement: an automatic key verification feature to complement its safety number system.
Fraud & Identity Theft
The payments giant says BioCatch’s behavioral and device intelligence will help financial institutions combat account takeovers, scams and other forms of digital fraud.
Data Breaches
Hackers recently obtained non-sensitive customer information and other documents from the company.
Fraud & Identity Theft
US conducts sweeping crackdown on Southeast Asian cyberscam operations as part of what officials say is a “new theater of war”.
Fraud & Identity Theft
Cyber-savvy Estonia said on Thursday it would suspend security certificates for up to 760,000 state-issued electronic ID-cards with faulty chips as of Friday midnight...
Audits
U.S. hotel chain Hilton has reached a settlement with the states of New York and Vermont over the payment card breaches suffered by the...
Cybercrime
IBM Security announced on Tuesday the launch of a product designed to help banks and other service providers protect their customers against new account...
Cybercrime
Amazon-owned Whole Foods Market informed customers last week that a recent hacker attack aimed at its payment systems affected nearly 100 locations across the...
Data Protection
The acceptance and adoption of biometrics as a primary or second factor in multi-factor authentication has been considerably slower than expected. There are signs...
Cybercrime
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) believes the recent Equifax breach will not make a significant difference in terms of tax fraud considering that...
Cybercrime
A recent cyber-heist that targeted a bank in Taiwan has been linked by security researchers to an infamous threat group believed to be operating...
Cybercrime
Pizza Hut U.S. informed customers over the weekend that their payment card and contact information may have been compromised after cybercriminals breached its website.Emails...
Cloud Security
A data sample provided last month by scammers trying to make a profit by claiming to have breached U.S. credit reporting agency Equifax may...
Cybercrime
Chicago-based hotel operator Hyatt Hotels Corporation informed customers this week that their credit card information may have been stolen by cybercriminals. This is the...
Cybercrime
Sonic Drive-In, a fast food restaurant chain with more than 3,500 locations across the United States, confirmed on Wednesday that cybercriminals may have stolen...
Fraud & Identity Theft
US officials are studying ways to end the use of social security numbers for identification following a series of data breaches compromising the data...
Cybercrime
Whole Foods Market, the supermarket chain acquired recently by Amazon for $13.7 billion, informed customers this week that it has launched an investigation after...
Fraud & Identity Theft
It’s been 22 years since Sandra Bullock struggled to reclaim her identity from cyber-terrorists in The Net, a movie that opened our eyes to...
Cybercrime
Sonic Drive-In, a fast food restaurant chain with more than 3,500 locations across the United States, has apparently suffered a data breach that may...
Cyberwarfare
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has finally notified the states whose systems were targeted by hackers before last year’s presidential election.
Disaster Recovery
Equifax has made another blunder following the massive data breach suffered by the company – it advised some customers on Twitter to access a...
Cybercrime
Equifax revealed on Tuesday that the recent data breach affects roughly 100,000 Canadian consumers, but the company’s systems in Canada were not compromised.
Cybercrime
While the large amount of information stolen in the recent Equifax hack might be up for sale somewhere on the dark web, scammers have...
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