PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2019

Once the account fills up with V-bucks, it is then sold through a legitimate vendor like eBay, or on the dark web, for lower rates that the $10 for 1,000 gamers will get in the game or through an authorized online store. And an estimated 86 percent of the scams were shared via social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2019

trillion in 2018, or slightly less than the gross domestic product (GDP) of Germany. Corporations must work to retain their trust, lest they lose customers to more secure competitors. A recent study found that social media networks have become an increasingly popular way for hackers to target new victims.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2018

At first glance, 2018 is shaping up to be a year that has brought meaningful consumer, regulatory and legislative backlash against lax online privacy. consumers were aware of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, with the incident resulting in 57 percent of those consumers reporting they are more concerned about data privacy and security.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Romance scams are perpetuated by those who meet victims online and charm them over a period of time, gaining the trust and admiration of the target. The scammers work on dating apps and on social media. Then, they ask for money for something — maybe an emergency medical procedure, or a a ticket to come and visit in person.

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2018

In a press release , Visa said the international trip is the sequel to the Visa Cashless Challenge, which awarded $500,000 earlier in 2018 to small businesses in the U.S. To find the traveler, Visa is partnering with social media travel personalities, Arden Cho and brothers Alex and Marko Ayling.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

The legislator was reportedly referring to the policy that the social media company rolled out a day prior to prohibiting very manipulated videos made by machine learning or artificial intelligence. Experts reportedly brought attention to the national security as well as the societal implications of manipulated digital media.

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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. It would then use the information to recommend products.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2020

The G-Group ecosystem includes Vietnam’s social media network Gapo and P2P lending platform Tima. The technology holding company also has member businesses in gaming, security and financial services. . Vietnam said in January that Facebook violated Vietnamese law in how it managed online content, advertising and taxes.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2017

Even in the quiet seasons, the online travel market is susceptible to the trade winds, and they don’t always blow in agents’ favor. But what hurts a business (especially a small one) more than an October snowstorm is when online fraudsters use CNP transactions to steal their services. The Rise of CNP Fraud.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Digital ID and authentication are always vital topics for payments and commerce — but now, given recent developments, including in social media, they have taken on new importance. So much of digital identity relates to the question of security. So, what does the future hold, given the current reality of individual digital ID?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 25, 2019

Vietnam ’s new social network platform, Lotus, is looking to raise as much as 1.2 Developed by media group VCCorp, Lotus has already secured an initial investment of 700 billion dong ($30.4 million active Facebook users in 2018, and that number is expected to rise to more than 45 million this year. trillion dong ($52.1

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2019

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced fraud charges against a Brooklyn individual and two of his entities who allegedly engaged in a fraudulent scheme to sell digital securities to investors and to manipulate the market for those securities. million the defendants raised in 2017 and 2018.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

Facebook has also partnered with Citizens Advice to form a specially trained team to assist those who have been targeted by online scams. The move by Facebook follows an April 2018 defamation lawsuit filed by Martin Lewis , founder of MoneySavingExpert.com. The initiative is intended to increase awareness of financial scams in the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2019

households and companies increased 16 percent in 2018, according to new data. The report also found that in 2018, there was an increase in traditional unauthorized fraud, in which customers are tricked into transferring money to criminals. Financial scams perpetrated against U.K.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

You can also store your IDs and secure notes. They see themselves as a platform for managing digital identity, secure by biometrics. Largest independent purely online bank in the world. William Mills III, Chief Executive Officer of William Mills Agency is live blogging today at FinovateSpring 2018. 09:34 am Cashoff.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

It’s not surprising, then, that for many businesses, the in-person networking events are more popular than online networking platforms. peers when it comes to turning online for building professional connections and engaging new buyers or suppliers,” he recently told PYMNTS.

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MAY 16, 2018

At least one thing is clear about Facebook ’s new interest in blockchain: It will help the social media giant keep up with the Joneses. According to Facebook observers this week, a natural place to test such payments would be the social media company’s Messenger and WhatsApp tools.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Over the course of years, Facebook reportedly enabled some of the world’s biggest tech companies to access the personal data of users — which amounted to the social media giant exempting some businesses from the privacy rules its customers thought they were protected under.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Call it the Great Trade-Off, perhaps: Consumers give up data to online merchants and marketers in exchange for free services, targeted offers, discounts and other benefits. However, part of that trade (even if not explicitly stated) is that consumers expect their data to be handled in a manner that protects their privacy and security.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2020

It has seized more than 2,000 products over the past three years and has carried out anti-counterfeit activity on online platforms. That’s led to the removal of more than 7,000 listings on several marketplaces, more than 360 websites and over 1,000 social media accounts.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 19, 2019

In comments reported earlier this week, cyber insurance security responder Tom Bennett of CFC Underwriting told The Financial Times that that claims surged in June and July. Gary Robinson, who serves as head of DCPCU, said that online conduits are gaining favor from fraudsters to further their schemes. “We

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

19), Mastercard announced the launch of its Cybersecurity Toolkit for SMBs, an online resource developed in partnership with the Global Cyber Alliance (GCA) that provides entrepreneurs and business executives with guidance and tools to address the threat of cyberattacks on their companies. In a press release on Tuesday (Feb.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Apple (FAMGA) are doubling down on data security. Effective data security features are critical to securing this information. However, Facebook and Amazon are not the only Big Tech companies with a need to innovate in data security. The Future of Data Security.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2019

The move comes amid a general trend in all areas of payments and commerce to move beyond the limitations and security risks that come with older forms of ID authentication and verification. Bundled sports broadcast packages, social media and high-definition televisions allow them to enjoy games from the comfort of their living rooms.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2019

If you clicked or viewed an advertisement for a mobile application and subsequently interacted with the mobile application since May 2018, we may have shared certain data (e.g., The company said it found bugs that may have shared user information with advertisers even when users asked it not to do so. “If

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BankBazaar

JULY 1, 2019

The award is in recognition of BankBazaar Aspiration Index 2018. With the survey findings, we then conducted a media outreach programme, including traditional media (media conference, center-specific press notes, industry stories) and social media. Wait, there’s more!

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In today’s top payments news, ongoing security concerns have caused the Federal Reserve to take a closer look at the Big Tech firms that serve the banking industry. People don’t know what’s true and what’s not, and what to believe,” he noted, adding that instead of uniting people, technology — like social media — is “splintering” them.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

In some cases, retailers are using social media tools such as Instagram to post promotions and product tutorials — or interact openly with consumers about their offerings. percent — said ordering products and services through social media was a motivation for innovation. Just under half — or 45.9

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2018

Personally identifiable information has become easier to find and exploit online due to the ubiquity of social media, and call center fraud has been increasing each year,” said Patrick Davie, vice president of product strategy and card services for Fiserv. What’s more, Fiserv said that account takeover losses in the U.S.

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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

AUGUST 9, 2018

In fact, email and online services accounted for 26 percent of phishing attacks last year, overtaking financial institutions (21 percent) as the top phishing target, the company said. Other figures from the first quarter of 2018 show that 299 brands suffered phishing attacks during that period, up about 15 percent quarter over quarter.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

Unfortunately, Apple didn’t announce a lot of details other than the name and that it will be available in the fall with online and offline viewing,” according to one on-scene round-up of the Apple event. “It Online Gaming. billion on games in 2018,” a growth in spending of some 13 percent compared to 2017.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

They want convenient booking tools, fast payment methods and secure reservations when planning their trips, and these needs have not changed much as millennials have come of age. Millennials and younger generations are digitally minded and want to interact with brands that can answer their personal requests through online and mobile channels.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2020

The language is not explicitly tied to recent activities from the Treasury Department (and specifically mandated by the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act passed by Congress in 2018). billion, and more recently, there has been an investigation launched into TikTok , the social media and streaming app.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Email often gets overlooked in the 2019 digital economy, given the higher levels of excitement attached to social media, video and other, more cutting-edge tools — to say nothing of the use of text as a communication tool. billion in 2018. This is not the first time the FBI has sounded a warning about business email compromise.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 31, 2019

The company’s "payments and other fees" category banked a record $274 million in the fourth quarter of 2018, compared with $193 million in the same quarter of 2017, marking a nearly 42% increase. Payments revenue at Facebook is up — way up.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

State governments began rolling out economic nexus laws after 2018’s South Dakota vs. Wayfair ruling. These laws were meant to make online sellers face sales tax requirements similar to those for retailers with on-the-ground locations, putting both types of businesses on equal footing.

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