Fraud & Identity Theft
Michael W. Baxter, 62, a former network engineer for Verizon Wireless, took advantage of flaws in the company’s procurement process to obtain access to...
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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
Experienced, mid-level employees may be the ones to watch when it comes to insider fraud in financial organizations, according to a recent report from...
Fraud & Identity Theft
NEW YORK - (AFP) - Two online poker sites have agreed to pay $731 million in a settlement of a US probe that will...
Cybercrime
Silver Tail Systems, a provider of web session intelligence and behavioral analytics for fraud and cybercrime detection, today announced the launch of Silver Tail...
Audits
San Francisco, California-based DocuSign, a provider of electronic signature technology and services, today announced that it has raised a massive $47.5 million in funding...
Fraud & Identity Theft
In a letter sent to partners, Jay Bavisi, President and CEO of the EC-Council, said that the company responsible for making Certified Ethical Hackers...
Cybercrime
A Higher Education Student Database is an Identity Thief’s Dream Come True...No more fertile ground for security breaches exists in the United States than...
Fraud & Identity Theft
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is suing hotel company Wyndham Worldwide and three of its subsidiaries for security failures that resulted in three data...
Cybercrime
A 39-year-old consultant from California, Michael Garcia, has been found guilty sentenced to fifty-seven months in prison for identity theft. According to the court, Garcia committed...
Cybercrime
Research from Trusteer shows that device fingerprinting, which is used in fraud detection systems, might be a useless layer of protection after they discovered...
Cybercrime
Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney almost had a Sarah Palin experience, if it wasn’t for the fact that Gawker kept their hands off the leaked...
Cybercrime
On Friday, the University of Nebraska said it was investigating a cyber attack that resulted in a security breach of an information system that...
Cybersecurity Funding
Pindrop Security, a startup focused on combating phone-based fraud, today announced that it has closed a $1 million seed round of financing, coming from...
Fraud & Identity Theft
Visa today announced a solution designed to help financial institutions create and implement strategies for identifying and stopping fraudulent transactions in real-time at the...
Cybercrime
Shawn Henry, the executive assistant director of the FBI’s Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services Branch, told the Wall Street Journal that the government and...
Fraud & Identity Theft
Starting in May, eCommerce merchants will have a new tool at their disposal to help fight fraud in online transactions in real time, thanks...
Cybercrime
Anti-fraud firms iovation and TeleSign are partnering to offer iovation’s ReputationManager 360 product with TeleSign’s Two-Factor Authentication, Verify and PhoneID services.
Cybercrime
Today, Microsoft announced that in collaboration with partners from the financial services industry including FS-ISAC and NACHA, The Electronic Payments Association, and Kyrus Tech,...
Cybercrime
Silver Tail Systems, a provider of fraud prevention solutions for Web sites, this week announced a new offering that provides site operators with real-time...
Cybercrime
As online banking shifts to add more authentication tests, scammers have been forced to up their game to compromise accounts. In new research, security...
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