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Australia, New Zealand Take A Hard BEC Scam Hit

PYMNTS

While the business email compromise (BEC) scam is a global pain point for businesses, this week's B2B Data Digest looks at the latest figures in B2B payments fraud and finds BEC heating up in one particular region: Australia and New Zealand. In total, about $104.5 million erroneous payment resulting from a BEC scam.

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Four Steps for Managing Third-Party Cyber Security Risk

FICO

regions, cloud)? Another reason to consider your firm’s risk relative to the ABC National Risk Score is that brokers, carriers, and reinsurers also increasingly leverage standardized cyber breach risk quantification metrics as an additional tool for underwriting and pricing cyber breach insurance. if necessary? by Doug Clare.

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April 2014: A Busy Month for Fraud Alerts!

Jack Henry

Cyber-Attacks on Financial Institutions ATM and Card Authorization Systems. In light of the ATM cash-out schemes that had taken place recently, an alert was issued to provide details on how this type of fraud had occurred, the risks presented to financial institutions (FIs), and what FIs could do to mitigate these risks. FBI InfraGard.

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Online Fraud Victims Need More Help from Banks to Recover

American Banker

Banks have gotten better at detecting digital banking fraud, but the process of closing and reopening accounts is still a mess — and that is what could send more customers packing.

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Uber's Phishing Tale Can Teach Banks a Lot About Security

American Banker

Some days the ride-sharing app receives more than a million phishing emails — a stat to which large banks can relate. But after deploying common protocols and open-source software, Uber now rejects most bad emails.

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Are You Really There? U.S. Bank Tries Geolocation to Stop Fraud

American Banker

Bank is using geolocation to make sure customers' card transactions are approved when they are traveling. It is just one example of how more companies are asking customers to let them track their phones.

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Terror Attacks, Panama Papers Show Cracks in Post-9/11 Monitoring

American Banker

Requirements that banks share anti-money-laundering information should extend to fraud and cyber risks, to connect the dots between bad actors and their transfer of money.

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