While the popularity of e-gift cards is growing, it’s also accompanied by an increase in malicious attacks with the onset of COVID-19. Among the brands protected by PerimeterX, ...
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Cybersecurity
Merchants, payment gateways, credit card issuers, and banks and have long battled the problem of orders falsely declined as part of fraud prevention programs often operated in isolation ...
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With the rise of e-commerce and digital payments during the COVID-19, new research by TransUnion shows fraudsters are also getting in on the action. The recent report showed ...
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“Bank heist! How insiders stole millions and threatened the cybersecurity of more than 12 million South African bank customers.” It’s got all the makings of a made for ...
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With a third of the global population on lockdown and scores of bank branches closed, many are convinced that branch banking is dead, and the future is branchless. ...
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A new quarterly analysis of global online fraud trends found the telecommunications, e-commerce, and financial services industries were increasingly impacted along with Millennials among the victims most targeted ...
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A large payments database owned by New York mobile payments processor PAAY left millions of credit card and other payments transactions exposed for more than three weeks before ...
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New research from business news site The Manifest shows 15% of US small businesses suffered a hack (7%), virus attack (5%), or data breach (3%) in 2019. The ...
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Last week, both the FBI and the IRS issued warnings of increased business and consumer fraud during the COVID-19 pandemic. Research from security experts at Proofpoint shows the ...
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Since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the novel coronavirus outbreak a pandemic on March 11th, new research by TransUnion identified a 23% increase in weekly e-commerce transactions ...
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