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BEC Scams Nearly Double Over Three Years

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In Australia, BEC has hit hard, as CIO reported that several businesses in that country have been forces to shutter operations in the wake of such fraud. The report noted that the purchase card program logged 7.1 million in 2017, and total transaction value across the 13,600 employees wielding such cards came to $4.6 billion.

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Mastercard May Seek Payment Licensing In China

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Ann Cairns, president of international markets, said in an interview with Reuters that China is extremely important to the future of the company and that the credit card company is poring over the rules in China to see how they would impact the company’s business. That was welcome news to credit card companies, particularly U.S.-based

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Modern Bank Robbery: Addressing Cyber Fraud in Retail Financial Services

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While the days of the good ol’ “stickup” bank robbery, cybersecurity threats are rapidly growing in number and complexity, and even the most advanced security teams scramble to keep up. After decades of battling credit card fraud, retail banks face a new challenge: fraudulent account takeover. Damage control is all that remains.

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BEC Run Out Of Detention Center Nets Millions

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As for the locale: Search warrants, noted by ZDNet , were served on those individuals in an immigration detention center, yielding 16 mobile phones, various SIM cards and a number of electronic storage devices. He and an accomplice operated from Nigeria, targeting the U.S., New Zealand and a number of other countries.

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Modern Bank Robbery: Addressing Cyber Fraud in Retail Financial Services

Cisco

While the days of the good ol’ “stickup” bank robbery, cybersecurity threats are rapidly growing in number and complexity, and even the most advanced security teams scramble to keep up. After decades of battling credit card fraud, retail banks face a new challenge: fraudulent account takeover. Damage control is all that remains.

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BA To Reveal Fine Print On GDPR Fines?

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6 that as many as 380,000 individuals had been affected, where data tied to credit cards used for bookings had been pilfered. According to Bank Info Security , quoting U.K.-based based Equifax operations did not have adequate measures in place to ensure that data was protected. 21 to Sept. Other Financial Impacts Loom.

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Prepaid’s Summer Of Uncertainty

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Brad Fauss, CEO of the National Branded Pre-Paid Card Association and MPD CEO Karen Webster dug into the potential for these rules to create the kind of inconsistencies that could very well disadvantage the very consumers that the CFPB intended to protect. Who Uses Prepaid Anyway? So far, so good.

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