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Cloud payroll company up in smoke, $35 million missing

$35 million missing in US payroll fraud
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The $81 billion payroll processing business in the US is normally bedrock solid, made up of longtime players and innovative new payroll-as-a-service (PaaS), cloud-based fintech startups. Like the ...
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Insights from Verizon’s 2019 Data Breach Report

Verizon 2019 Data Breach Report
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$40 million stolen from the Binance cryptocurrency exchange yesterday by cybercriminals. Hackers infiltrating hundreds of Amazon merchant accounts late last year. The ongoing impact from the massive 2017 ...
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Facial recognition error claimed in $1 billion Apple lawsuit

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In a warning sign for the new technology and retailers, a student launched a $1 billion lawsuit claiming that mistaken facial recognition in an Apple Store led to ...
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Q1 ransomware rising, cost to business building

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Coveware’s Q1 Ransomware Marketplace report shows an alarming increase in ransomware incidents and the impact and costs to business in the first quarter of the year to clients ...
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Dec 7 Global payments news roundup

Payments NEXT global payments news
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Lots of new developments, more holiday shopping news and results, and innovations to keep you ahead of the payments pack in this week’s global payments news roundup. NFIB ...
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Cequence protects from internet’s 31% malicious bot traffic

malicious bots a growing problem
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Cequence Security announced an innovative application security platform that protects against the growing number of malicious bot attacks impacting online businesses. An estimated 31% of internet traffic is ...
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Oct 26 Global payments news roundup

Payments NEXT Oct 26 news roundup
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Here’s the global payments news that caught our eye this week including Shopify/Venmo and Amazon/AMEX partnerships, Visa’s double-digit growth, Amazon Q3 results, US cross-border payments research, Swedish government’s ...
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10 SMB cybersecurity facts you should know

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Dell shares some valuable cybersecurity facts and figures. Here are just 10 reasons small to midsize business need to make cybersecurity a priority. There are 4,000-plus ransomware attacks occur ...
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Bitglass: Financial institution data breaches tripled in two years

Bitglass analyzed 103 bank data breaches
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When cloud security provider Bitglass examined the state of financial services cybersecurity in 2018, it was shocked to see that data breaches of financial institutions had nearly tripled ...
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Top 3 Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities Your Business Faces Now

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The business world has become more competitive than ever. Not only is there increased pressure on companies to be profitable, but also to keep information safe. For many ...
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