Fraud & Identity Theft
The hackers who breached the online adultery website Ashley Madison last month made good on their promise to leak customer details.
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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
Las Vegas - Hackers at an infamous annual Def Con gathering in Las Vegas on Friday got schooled in how to be online killers....
Fraud & Identity Theft
86 Million Scam Calls Made to US Consumers Every Month, Says Pindrop SecurityBased on data from its “telephony honeypot,” anti-fraud company Pindrop Security has...
Fraud & Identity Theft
Scammers apparently based in Nigeria have been stealing information from various companies in the oil logistics sector, according to a report published by Panda...
Fraud & Identity Theft
Early Warning, a provider of fraud prevention and risk management solutions, said on Tuesday that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Authentify...
Cybersecurity Funding
Pindrop Security, a startup focused on combating phone-based fraud, announced this week that it has raised $35 million in a Series B round of...
Fraud & Identity Theft
Chinese Bitcoin exchange Bter has suspended its services following the theft of 7,170 BTC, worth roughly $1.7 million.
Fraud & Identity Theft
Credit card companies MasterCard and Visa announced last week plans to roll out new cybersecurity features and expand existing technologies to protect consumers, merchants...
Cybercrime
Since the days of Friendster and GeoCities, fraud has thrived on social media. Social media is the fraudsters’ playground—an unregulated, highly visible, easily exploitable...
Fraud & Identity Theft
In recent months, cybercriminals have started relying on DNS poisoning to target Brazilian Boletos, RSA reported on Monday.Boleto is a popular payment method that...
Fraud & Identity Theft
In response to an increasing number of fraudulent tax returns, financial software developer Intuit temporarily suspended e-filing of state income tax returns made through...
Fraud & Identity Theft
At least two Google AdSense campaigns have been leveraged by cybercrooks to redirect the visitors of numerous websites to scam pages.The malvertising campaign started...
Fraud & Identity Theft
A new toolkit discovered late last year by researchers at IBM Trusteer allows even less skilled cybercriminals to steal online banking credentials and abuse...
Fraud & Identity Theft
Mark Marmilev, the former chief technology officer of the Costa Rica-based centralized digital currency service Liberty Reserve, has been sentenced to five years in...
Cybercrime
Cybercriminals who specialize in payment card fraud can verify the validity of stolen data by using an automated tool which conducts transactions on the...
Fraud & Identity Theft
Dutchman Has Bitcoin 'Wallets' Inserted in HandsTHE HAGUE - A Dutch bitcoin entrepreneur has had two microchips containing the virtual currency injected into his...
Cybercrime
A study released this week shows that the number of manual account hijacking cases is small, but such incidents can be distressing to users...
Cybercrime
For some cyber-criminals, faking a data breach is all it takes to inflict real economic and reputation damage on a company without having to...
Cybercrime
Researchers at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom have discovered a flaw in Visa's contactless credit cards that can be leveraged to steal large...
Cybercrime
SINGAPORE - A new Interpol center to be opened in Singapore next year will strengthen global efforts to fight increasingly tech-savvy international criminals, officials...
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For twenty-five years, "data" in security meant logs and events. But logs are a lossy representation of reality.
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Organizations must distinguish identity verification, authentication and threat detection, or risk successfully authenticating the attackers they are trying to stop.
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