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Study Finds Half Of UK Firms Vulnerable To Invoice Fraud

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Invoice fraud, where emailed requests trick employees of various firms into sending money to scammers’ bank accounts, has been making the rounds in the United Kingdom. firms are vulnerable to that type of fraud. In terms of individual company news, a former Cisco Systems employee was arrested earlier in the week in San Francisco.

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Deep Dive: How Ad Fraud Takes A Toll On Advertisers And Publishers

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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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Data Enablers: SigOpt’s Machine Learning Tools Help Businesses Optimize Operations

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From some guy’s garage in San Francisco, a group of math nerds has grown into one of the world’s finest-tuned machine learning operations. SigOpt now helps optimize fraud detection and investments like beer brewing and even the manufacturing of synthetic rhino horns. PYMNTS: Can you explain the business?

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‘Organized Retail Crime’ Is Growing (And Not Just Because Of The Pandemic)

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Just in the past month, police in San Francisco and Polk County, Fla., John Matas, a certified fraud examiner and certified financial crimes investigator, added in a recent op-ed for Loss Prevention Magazine that organized retail crime goes far beyond mere shoplifting. Matas sees the current wave of U.S.

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Is AI The Ultimate Fraud Fighting Machine?

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After its launch in 2011, HiGear, a San Francisco, Calif.–based While the fraud-fighting technology available six years ago didn’t stand a chance of protecting HiGear, the current car-sharing market , which is projected to be worth $16.5 billion by 2024, continues to experience similar fraud attacks.

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Blockchain Tracker: SEB’s New York Bridge To Stockholm, Credit Cards And Fraud Prevention

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The conduit between the two is San Francisco-based startup Ripple, which is known for enterprise cross-border applications. Paula da Silva, head of transaction services at SEB, said in a statement that SEB has plans to include further geographies — besides New York and Stockholm — where the bank operates.

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Adyen Lands Payments Deal For Subway In US, Canada

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The Dutch-based payment company has already begun processing some payments, and will eventually help Subway in more than 20,000 stores, according to Adyen Chief Operating Officer Kamran Zaki. The company is up against competitors like San Francisco-based Stripe. and Canada, the firms announced on Tuesday (Jan.