PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Social media has taken on a life of its own — so much so that a new survey finds a lot of consumers value their life online at $100,000 to priceless. That may be particularly scary since Forbes reported that Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook got his social media accounts hacked for the third time in 2016.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The workshop will cover a broad array of topics within the FTC’s jurisdiction, including truth-in-advertising law, social media marketing, data security, business-to-business fraud, and other business basics. The Truth About False Advertising (an overview of the FTC’s truth-in-advertising expectations).

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2018

India is mulling the idea of requesting eCommerce and social media companies to only store customer data locally, which could impact the likes of Amazon and Facebook and its WhatsApp messaging service in the country. Reuters reported the government would move to offer incentives to store data locally in India.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2020

These growing revenue streams carry their own risks, however, not the least of which is their propensity to be targeted by fraud. The Fraud Threats Of 2020. Most customers bypass restaurants entirely when trying to perpetrate chargeback fraud , with 76 percent of cardholders going directly to their payment card issuers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2019

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which went into effect May of 2018, has had some serious repercussions on tech companies all over Europe, but especially in the U.K. data protection watchdog is looking into the company after it reported “limited fraudulent activity” on some customers’ accounts.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Onboarding these customers can be a tedious challenge prone to fraud and consumer frustrations, and the industry faces the ever-looming threat of SIM swap fraud. Customers still face potential fraud threats once they are signed up, with SIM swap fraud being a particularly common foe.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Fraud protection specialist Kount and Philadelphia-based payments platform FreedomPay are teaming up to offer “an integrated, complete solution to enable international expansion with fraud-free payments and frictionless customer” experiences. Before, they were limited to one or two areas. Today, they’re pretty much everywhere.”.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2020

Banks must enable fast and seamless onboarding experiences, but these processes should also be secure. New account fraud is a significant problem for FIs, with 48 percent of values generated from fraud attempts coming from accounts that have only been open for one day, according to a recent report.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

Melissa Townsley-Solis, head of GIACT , discusses one of the negative effects of COVID-19: the escalation of fraud in the payments arena. She stresses the importance of small businesses fighting back against fraud in 2021 in order to achieve economic recovery. Fraud was red-hot in 2020. Businesses across the U.S.

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Abrigo

JANUARY 4, 2023

Guidance for banks on the lookout for crypto scams and fraud The turbulent cryptocurrency scene should put bankers on high alert. Takeaway 1 Cryptocurrencies are the newest and most popular field in potential financial gains through fraud. But with increased popularity comes more opportunity for fraud. DOWNLOAD WHITEPAPER.

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PopularBank

APRIL 18, 2024

Yet, despite advances in bank fraud protection, scammers continue to develop and deploy sophisticated—and successful—methods. Earlier this year, the Federal Trade Commission announced over $10 million in fraud losses in 2023, up 14% from the previous year. Thieves attempting bank fraud may try one or more of the following scams.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 17, 2017

Fraud campaigns targeting online financial services tend to be smaller, and subtler than fraud campaigns conducted for other online platforms.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2019

owning laptops and 91 percent owning mobile devices, there’s never been greater opportunity for digital fraud. Total losses due to fraud were a staggering $4.2 One of the most insidious forms of fraud is account takeovers (ATOs). Corporations must work to retain their trust, lest they lose customers to more secure competitors.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Omni Security and Authentication. Consumers expect to do business with their bank online seamlessly, without the hassle of complicated security checks, whether through their mobile phone, smart watch, home speaker or other connected device. Around The Security And Authentication Space. presidential election.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2019

Overall digital fraud increased by 13 percent in the past year, with the food and beverage industry seeing an increase of 60 percent – nearly four times above average. The transactions occurred in rapid succession at multiple locations, suggesting that the hacker distributed stolen data to other criminals.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

Just when you think there are no surprises left, this statistic drops: 60 percent of organizations recently polled had no idea their customer data had been breached, because their payments system and process is too opaque to detect it. That’s surprising in 2020 – or maybe “shocking” better captures the vibe. Safety Is Multilayered.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2018

after the Information Commissioner’s Office ( ICO ) ruled that the social media network operator was engaged in “serious breaches of data protection.” The data, which was processed from 2007 through 2014, was accessible to developers of third-party vendors without the Facebook users providing consent.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Facebook , the beleaguered social media giant that is facing intense scrutiny into its business practices, could be on the hook for a multibillion dollar fine, reported CNN. It confirmed to CNN late last week that it started a “statutory” inquiry into the social media giant after it received several reports of data breaches.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Social Security Administration, for example, requires recipients using its website to provide unique eight-digit codes sent via text to their smartphones in addition to their usernames and passwords when they sign up or log in. . A silver lining exists, however. It also outlines some of the frictions entities face when doing so. .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2018

First Data’s 2018 Consumer Cybersecurity Study is based on data from 1,767 U.S. consumers among four age groups: Linksters (ages 18-23), Socializers (24-34), the MTV Generation (35-54), and Maturists (55+).

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

A new report by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has revealed that millennials are 25 percent more likely to report losing money to fraud than consumers ages 40 and over. Online shopping fraud reports include complaints about items that are never delivered or are not as they were advertised.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Leslie Ragan manages transaction fraud prevention for Elan Financial Services , a unit of U.S. In an interview with PYMNTS, Ragan said technology developments have enhanced the industry’s fraud-fighting strategies, but customer awareness is still a critical component of preventing bad actors from succeeding. At The Consumer Level.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2020

It’s a new year, and in Europe, an expansion of scrutiny and laws governing data sharing. The dawn of 2020 brought a spate of new rules governing data collection and use. Sites are also required to offer free services that inform users when data is being collected and how it may be used. In India, Too. A California CFPB?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2020

Fraud attacks’ frequency and complexity will likely continue to rise despite merchants’ best efforts to prevent them. The Latest Fraud Decisioning Developments. The United Kingdom’s RELX , an information and analytics firm, has meanwhile purchased fraud prevention firm Emailage to boost its own anti-fraud efforts.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Nordstrom has suffered a data breach that exposed employee names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, checking account and routing numbers, salaries and more. Social media posts show that some former employees, who left the company months ago, have also received notification letters.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2020

The news site attributed information about the data exposure to researcher Bob Diachenko of security firm Comparitech. 19) report on news site Information Security stated, in part: “Diachenko first contacted Deep Social using the email address listed on its website to disclose the exposure. A Wednesday (Aug.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Mailing is a huge problem, data quality is a core problem and there are statistics out there that say [improper addressing] costs U.S. Mailing is a huge problem, data quality is a core problem and there are statistics out there that say [improper addressing] costs U.S. That's no joke.”. Errors Are A Widespread Problem.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2016

Check out who secured venture capital in our breakdown below. Enterprise Security. Ionic Security. It may have begun as a way for individuals to take control of the data they share on social media sites, but Ionic Security has begun to shift its focus to securing the data of enterprises and their employees.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2019

The Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) is Twitter’s lead regulator in the European Union. 25), the DPC said it was again looking into the social media giant because of another breach notification it received from the company, according to a report from Reuters. On Friday (Jan.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

There may come a day, a generation or two from now, when stories about the data breaches and other hacking threats faced by payments and commerce operators in 2018 seem quaint — or, at the least, like relatively primitive foreshadowing of a new type of digital criminality. But those gains come with fresh concerns about digital security.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2020

Synthetic ID fraud can be especially hard to spot. Using real credentials lends authenticity to these schemes and allows them to elude many fraud detection systems, and cybercriminals can avoid tipping off victims by not using pilfered identities wholesale. Nontraditional Data.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2018

Timehop , the mobile app that gathers photos from social media, disclosed on Monday (July 9) that it was the subject of a data breach. In a blog post, the company said that on July 4 it experienced a network intrusion that led to a breach of some of its customers’ data.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The China Securities Regulatory Commission , China’s security watchdog, is setting up a technology regulation bureau and will announce Yao Qian as its new department chief, the Chinese business publication Caijing said on Wednesday (Dec. 11), as reported by Coindesk.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2018

They are able to use cutting-edge technology, black-market websites and top-level, nimble and well-secured global networks to work their craft. At the least, it won’t get any better — not according to any anti-fraud expert who is worth their rate. million fraud crimes in 2017, Trilli said, and $22.1 In the U.S., there were 16.7

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2019

It’s kind of like being on the “worst dressed list” except that we’re talking about stolen data and, probably, lots of lawsuits. Welcome, then, to the Top Data Breaches of 2019. In data coming into the end of the year, Risk Based Security said hackers had accessed 7.9 The readings are pretty grim. Thousands of breaches.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

A new report by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has revealed that millennials are 25 percent more likely to report losing money to fraud than consumers ages 40 and over. Online shopping fraud reports include complaints about items that are never delivered or are not as they were advertised.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Data holds the key to helping modern enterprises develop effective anti-fraud strategies. Many businesses are sitting on massive troves of it, but they are also facing down the three “V’s” of data complexity — velocity, variety and volume — which can make tackling fraud even harder. . Structured Versus Unstructured Data.

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