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Why Professional Soccer Cares About Digital Fraud

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No one is immune from digital fraud. The San Jose Earthquakes, an American professional soccer team, is a surprisingly good example of a borderless business that’s working to provide a frictionless, yet secure way for its fan base to purchase tickets. There’s always a fraudster waiting in the wings to spoil the party.

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Silicon Valley Startup CEO Charged With Wire Fraud

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Choi pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud , admitting that he never attended business school, was never employed by a financial institution at any point in time and exaggerated his wealth. This case was investigated by the FBI’s San Jose resident agency. Jacobs of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section and Assistant U.S.

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Borderless Commerce — New Strategies To Drive Globalization And Crush Fraud

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He is a noted industry expert in online fraud, cybercrime, identity theft, information security and networking technology and holds several patents in security, fraud and networking. Corporate Partnerships, San Jose Earthquakes of MLS. Kristina Wavomba.

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The Rising Fever of Account Takeover Fraud

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If fraud attacks are the flu, then the Equifax data breach was a raging fever: a symptom (albeit a dramatic one) of a larger illness that will almost inevitably infect any organization that hasn’t had its shots. Patience is a virtue in the business of fraud. Account takeover is not entry-level fraud.

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Ethoca & FICO Partner to Improve End-to-End CNP Fraud Management Capabilities for Card Issuers

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Partnership enables FICO to provide rapid notification of confirmed fraud to Ethoca for immediate resolution through Ethoca’s global network of merchants TORONTO, Ontario, Canada; San Jose, CA – January.

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Ex-Google Engineer Charged With Selling Trade Secrets To Uber

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Attorney’s office in San Jose, California. 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 charged with 33 counts of trade secret theft in an indictment filed by the U.S.

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Intel’s Cloud Customers Eye Options After Chip Flaw Discovery

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While there have been no known cyberattacks caused by the vulnerabilities so far, lawyers filed a lawsuit in a San Jose, California federal court last week, seeking class-action status and compensation for people who bought vulnerable Intel chips or computers that came with them already installed.

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