PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Google admitted that it didn’t tell users about a built-in microphone in its Nest Secure home security system, according to a report from Reuters. The microphone has never been on and is only activated when users specifically enable the option,” Google said. Google acquired Nest in 2014 for $3.2 On Wednesday (Feb.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Google, the FBI and White Ops, along with a handful of cybersecurity companies, recently collaborated to shut down a digital ad fraud scam that used 1.7 According to the report, 3ve (pronounced “Eve”), which is what the group called its online ad fraud campaign, was active since 2014 but could have been around for longer.

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The Paypers

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Google India has announced a series of new fraud-detection techniques designed to make digital payments on Google Pay UPI platform more secure.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

Cloud services like AWS , Dropbox and Google Cloud store terabytes of users’ personal information and payment data, making them prime targets for fraudsters looking to wreak havoc. The cloud security space needs to completely rethink its options if such strong systems can still be breached.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Aiming to protect users from hackers and political operatives, Google is gearing up to enhance its online security tools. The program will be offered to corporate executives, politicians and other individuals who have higher than average concerns about security.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2020

Security experts at Google have identified over a dozen government-backed hacking groups trying to use the coronavirus pandemic to fuel malware and phishing attempts. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) said hackers had been targeting the World Health Organization (WHO), as revealed in early April by Reuters.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

6), Apple confirmed that a largely Muslim minority group in China, the Uighurs, was the target of attacks in a spying attempt tied to iPhone security flaws, but disputed the way Google described the attacks, Reuters reported. Google said its research was sound. On Friday (Sept. This was never the case.”.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 2, 2018

Security and fraud risk remain the top priority for retail banks seeking to update their payments infrastructure, a study released this week by ACI WorldWide and Ovum found.

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Perficient

MARCH 11, 2021

Sign in with Apple takes a strong stance on security and privacy by gaining independence from external identity providers. Sign in with Apple incorporates these four principals of privacy to ensure their users’ data and personal information are secure. Security is bolstered through a two-factor authentication. How Does It work?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The New York Attorney General and the Connecticut Attorney General are investigating the Google data breach that may have exposed the private data of at least 500,000 users. Google announced Monday (October 8) that it is shutting down Google+ after finding a security bug that made the data accessible to developers.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

Everyone knows that they need complex and secure passwords to keep the bad guys out of their computer systems and smartphones, but knowing and doing it are two different stories. With open-source security, they get simple security options that work across a variety of platforms.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2019

Google has suspended a fraudulent mobile app that claimed to offer system-level Android updates to smartphones. While the app on the Google Play Store , called “Updates for Samsung,” did indeed redistribute Samsung’s software, it was also a scam to get users to pay money for the updates.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2021

FIs must be prepared to support the pandemic-driven shift in consumers’ payment and spending behaviors while also keeping up with new security needs, Chris Tremont , executive vice president of virtual banking for Radius Bank , said in a recent PYMNTS interview. “As More Debit Payments, More Debit Fraud. is huge,” Tremont said.

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PopularBank

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Inadvertently downloading fake banking apps and app-based banking malware could lead to the theft of your valuable account information and disrupt your financial security. Here are 10 tips to help you keep your bank account secure from fraud: 1. This way, you can immediately report a potential fraud.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2019

But the people who write the code for those better, richer sites don’t always put enough focus on security — either from ignorance or because of the pressure of tight deadlines — and that leaves what amounts to holes in the digital fence that criminals can use to steal personal data. New Problem. Consumer Awareness.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Cybersecurity and fraud protection company DataVisor , which uses artificial intelligence to help with fraud solutions, has launched a program called ExtenD, with the intention of helping medium to larger businesses with their cybersecurity and fraud needs, the company said in a press release.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2017

This point was driven home recently after it came to light that Facebook and Google found themselves out $100 million at the hands of one ambitious cybercrook. While the corporate victims of the scam weren’t named at the time, Fortune Magazine recently reported that they were none other than Facebook and Google. Kim, in a statement.

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2017

speaks to the growing risk of identity fraud and its detrimental effect on consumer confidence. In the study, the organizations found that the number of identity fraud victims had risen to 15.4 percent increase in identity fraud victims since 2011, when 11.6 FBI Sees Wire Fraud Via Email Grow In 2016. million in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

To counter fraud as the holiday season approaches, Best Buy , Target and Walmart made changes to their gift card programs. Fraudsters reportedly buy third-party gift cards from brands like Steam, Google Play and iTunes with retail gift cards. They also come amid an initiative to take on fraudsters that has run for a year. “By

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Security researchers at SRLabs have discovered a new vulnerability that could leave Google and Amazon smart speakers exposed to hackers. In addition, a hack impacting Google Home allows the user to ask for a random number to be generated, with the software continuing to listen long after the initial command.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2019

Despite being warned years ago about a bug in its Chromecast media streaming stick, Google has yet to fix it and hackers are still taking advantage. We have received reports from users who have had an unauthorized video played on their TVs via a Chromecast device,” a Google spokesperson said. Two years later, U.K.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2018

Google Tez, the India-based payment application that runs on the United Payments Interface, has added a chat feature to its digital payment platform. According to a report in The Economic Times citing a Google spokesperson, Google is aiming to take on WhatsApp with the chat feature, which it’s piloting with some users in India.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2019

However, beyond being an irritant, he noted, one-off friendly frauds like these aren’t a major risk to a firm’s bottom line. Unfortunately, there is a far more malignant form of offer fraud out there that does pose a much bigger risk. The Dark Side Of Offer Fraud . Beating Back Opportunistic Offer Fraud .

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Payments Source

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Stripe’s expanding global profile has come with a growing security risk operation, which will now be overseen by former Google security expert Niels Provos.

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Payments Source

JULY 4, 2019

Fraudulent attacks on accounts payable departments had been on the rise to begin with, but a new sense of urgency has taken hold in the wake of a recent incident that cost Facebook and Google $100 million.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2018

In addition, UniCredit customers in Italy can now use the Google Pay digital wallet, and cybercriminals are reportedly using malware to encrypt files and asking for a ransom to be paid through WeChat Pay. To use the service, customers can activate the ‘Monhey’ app in the UniCredit app or download the Google Play application.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Google is facing a privacy complaint filed by a group of European consumer watchdogs that contend the internet giant used manipulative tactics to track the locations of web users so that it could target ads to them. When we carry our phones, Google is recording where we go, down to which floor we are on and how we are moving.

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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

OCTOBER 4, 2019

This week’s coverage includes a deep dive into a big potential misstep for Apple, woes at Goldman’s Marcus, a new Visa expansion effort and a look at how Google Maps can predict the future of payments. Chase On Using Machine Learning To Crack Fraud’s Goldilocks Conundrum. The global threat of fraud shows no signs of slowing down.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Experts estimate that total fraud losses in 2018 totaled $3.9 Fraud takes many forms, from account takeover attacks to identity theft. But ad fraud might be one of the most insidious types. Some estimates range as high as $42 billion, because ad fraud is tricky to measure. Types of Ad Fraud.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

One might have thought the low watermark for digital security headlines came the week before last, with the near-continuous revelations that Jack Dorsey had fallen victim to a SIM swap identity theft attack and Apple had accidentally left a large exploit in iOS for the last two or so years. Apple Claps Back on Cyberattack Claims.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

Decathlon faced its share of security and customer acceptance challenges when rolling out its QR code system as an alternative to cash payments. QR codes were instrumental in ensuring seamless contactless transactions, with customers scanning them and completing transactions with their stored payment cards, Apple Pay or Google Pay.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Microsoft issued an emergency security update for Internet Explorer after hackers were able to exploit a new flaw in several versions of the browser. Unfortunately, the security issue come right before what is expected to be the biggest shopping day of the year: the Saturday before Christmas.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Account takeovers, even of high-profile people, has become a common occurrence in this era of sophisticated cyberattacks and hacks, but researchers think they’ve found a way to fight back against account takeovers : cryptographically based security keys.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2017

Google is picking up its fight with Symantec, saying last week that it is reducing the level and length of trust Chrome will give Symantec-issued certificates. Google also said it’s in the process of distrusting Symantec certificates in Google’s Chrome browser.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Banks may process $1 million worth of credit card fraud requests in a day, but ad fraud detectors can face up to 20,000 requests every second. Ad fraud is growing even worse due to the rise of real-time bidding (RTB), an advertising model in which advertisers automatically bid on ad placements as web pages are loaded.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 27, 2019

Former Google engineer and self-driving pioneer Anthony Levandowski is being charged with stealing closely guarded secrets and selling them to Uber, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday (Aug. Levandowski was accused of stealing years of top-secret information from Google, which prosecutors called the crown jewels of the company.

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