FICO

JUNE 21, 2019

Want to protect yourself online – and protect your family – from data compromise and identity theft? FICO’s Doug Clare, vice president for cybersecurity solutions, offers some advice in this interview with NBC King 5 News in Seattle. More tips on how to protect yourself online are discussed in this blog post and video.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

Our cybersecurity team discovered and shut down malicious, unauthorized access to some information related to your T-Mobile prepaid wireless account. None of your financial data (including credit card information) or social security numbers were involved, and no passwords were compromised,” said the disclosure. .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2016

According to a report from cybersecurity firm Symantec, the attack mirrors tactics used by the unidentified group that orchestrated an $81 million hack of Bangladesh’s central bank earlier this year. The payment system of handbag company Vera Bradley may have been compromised by a massive data breach last month. and Ukraine.

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FICO

JANUARY 8, 2018

One of the newer applications of artificial intelligence rose to the top of the Fraud & Security blog last year: anti-money laundering. Readers were also keenly interested in learning more about cybersecurity and ATM compromise trends. What Is a Cybersecurity Posture? Read the series on AI and AML. Read the full post.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2016

14) that a new cybersecurity breach incident has affected over a billion of its users and their private data. In September of this year, it was revealed that over 500 million Yahoo accounts had been compromised back in 2014. In what feels like déjà vu, there’s more bad news for Yahoo users. The company announced Wednesday (Dec.

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FICO

AUGUST 27, 2019

A growing percentage of cybersecurity incidents against businesses are the result of initial compromises against third parties, allowing malicious actors to gain access through a trusted relationship, move laterally and escalate privileges, and ultimately attain their target. This risk is highlighted in a new report by the U.S.

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FICO

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As an adult with a serious professional interest in security, I am surprised as to why bright, well-informed data and cybersecurity professionals don’t feel more insecure about the efficacy of biometric information as a security device. Since I posted that blog a year ago, Apple released Face ID as the mechanism to unlock its new iPhone X.

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FICO

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

In my recent blog, “Real talk: The imminent and very real danger of IoT,” I wrote: Due to lack of security features, creating an IoT botnet is a great deal easier than phishing users to compromise PCs. In light of the recent Dyn attack , will 2017 be the year that your IoT device will turn on you? I think the answer is “yes.”

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

Google issued a stark warning last week about the state of cybersecurity: Phishing attacks are on the rise and continue to take advantage of vulnerabilities resulting from the global pandemic. The warning coincided with separate reports related to Google and cybersecurity. Taking into account the estimated 30.2

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Facebook is filing a lawsuit against NSO Group , an Israeli cybersecurity company, alleging that it hacked WhatsApp users, according to CNBC. Facebook filed the complaint on Tuesday (Oct. We are constantly working alongside industry partners to provide the latest security enhancements to help protect our users.”. “In

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Segpay

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This blog will explore the key advancements in biometric data security technologies, their impact on cybersecurity and usability, and the measures being implemented to protect user privacy in a world where criminals are always lurking in the dark, inventing new fraud schemes.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Either way, these sayings aren’t so encouraging when it comes to cybersecurity. Security experts believe that may be what happened to Yahoo — the tech giant confirmed that over 500 million user accounts were compromised by hackers, marking what is said to be the largest data breach in U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2019

Organizations are ramping up cybersecurity investments in response to the ever-climbing threat of data breaches and cyberattacks. The company commissioned Spiceworks to survey 600 security and IT leaders about their biggest concerns and areas of focus in supply chain cybersecurity. million business email compromise scam.

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FICO

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

They exploited and succeeded in compromising two of the bank’s payment systems – the ATM Switch and the SWIFT payments system. caption id="attachment_36768" align="alignnone" width="700"] Source: FICO Blog[/caption]. Layer 1 – Cybersecurity Measures. Cosmos Bank in India recently had $13.5 Layer 3 – Authorization.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2019

Hackers are targeting financial firms in the Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Congo, Ghana and Equatorial Guinea, using commodity malware and living off the land tools, reported Symantec, the cybersecurity company, in a new blog post. According to the company’s Thursday (Jan.

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FICO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

They exploited and succeeded in compromising two of the bank’s payment systems – the ATM Switch and the SWIFT payments system. caption id="attachment_36768" align="alignnone" width="700"] Source: FICO Blog[/caption]. Layer 1 – Cybersecurity Measures. Cosmos Bank in India recently had $13.5 Layer 3 – Authorization.

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VISTA InfoSec

JANUARY 29, 2024

Its intent is to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of the owner’s data, applications, or the operating system itself. Also Read : PCI DSS Requirement 4 Conclusion: This blog post details the changes to Requirement 5 from PCI DSS v3.2.1 VISTA InfoSec has over 30 years of cybersecurity and data privacy expertise.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2016

Unfortunately, the GoToMyPC service has been targeted by a very sophisticated password attack,” the company’s blog post read. “To Calling previous reports bogus, Bennett said there was no reason to believe that the attack compromised its platform.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2018

In a blog post, the company said that on July 4 it experienced a network intrusion that led to a breach of some of its customers’ data. EST, when an access credential to its cloud computing environment was compromised. As a result, users will have to re-authenticate to the Timehop app.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Facebook is filing a lawsuit against NSO Group , an Israeli cybersecurity company, alleging that it hacked WhatsApp users, according to CNBC. Facebook filed the complaint on Tuesday (Oct. We are constantly working alongside industry partners to provide the latest security enhancements to help protect our users.”. “In

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

More recently, today email cybersecurity firm Vade Secure announced the release of its own research on the most common mechanism through which cyberattackers commit their ransomware scams: phishing attacks. ” This trend was reflected in a recent cybersecurity incident with WhatsApp. The New York Times reported Sunday (Feb.

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FICO

DECEMBER 13, 2022

For an FI that’s adding 2 million digital customers per year, a 30% quit rate can translate into hundreds of thousands of customer engagement and revenue growth opportunities lost to anti-fraud processes that compromise customer experience. This blog covers the results of the survey across all 14 countries surveyed. FICO Admin.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2019

While financial services (FinServ) innovations often emerge with built-in security measures, new market trends — including faster payments and open banking — are introducing new security threats to corporate treasury departments, according to cybersecurity company BioCatch. BioCatch pointed to this risk in its blog post, too.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2018

Information security firm Kaspersky Labs revealed the latest cybersecurity issue on its Securelist blog , saying that the hacking group is tricking unsuspecting users into downloading cryptocurrency-related software laced with malware. Lazarus has been a major threat actor in the APT arena for several years.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

According to Sophos’ Naked Security blog, media outlets have accused Russia of trying to tamper with political computer systems in order to breed public distrust and spread false information. Quartz reported that the site Rambler was targeted by hacks dating back to 2012, and as a result, roughly 98 million accounts were compromised.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

This week’s news of a security flaw in the Android versions of WhatsApp and Telegram, first revealed by Symantec, marked the latest cybersecurity warning for users of high-profile technologies. While this attack may seem trivial and just a nuisance, it shows the feasibility of manipulating images on the fly,” the blog post noted.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2018

. “With businesses expanding their online presence to create more touchpoints with customers, employees and partners, the boundaries between what’s inside the firewall and what’s outside become less and less discernible, opening a whole new front in the battle between attackers and security teams,” the company wrote in a blog post.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

This is just the beginning of what will be a long list of CCPA-related lawsuits,” according to a Security Boulevard blog by Jingcong Zhao. Interpol, which helps coordinate police agencies in 194 countries, in late January said it had arrested three people from Indonesia who allegedly compromised hundreds of online shopping websites.

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Stax

JANUARY 15, 2024

Implementing surcharging involves analyzing pricing strategy impact, communicating policies effectively to customers, and reviewing technical considerations, including cybersecurity measures. To put it simply, it’s a matter of compromise. Automate routine tasks to focus on more critical tasks like implementing cybersecurity measures.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2016

In many cases, the websites have been left vulnerable and eventually compromised by weak passwords and outdated software. In a Google Research blog post , the company explained: “When Google works directly with webmasters during critical moments like security breaches, we can help 75 percent of webmasters re-secure their content.

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

the shipping giant, said computers running Windows were compromised — and for the Windows impact, the fault may lie with variants of the “WannaCry” malware. s signals intelligence agency, who is now managing director of cybersecurity firm PGI Cyber, told Bloomberg. Similarly FedEx Corp., Hospitals in the U.K.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2018

Radware Threat Research Center wrote in a blog post that hackers are seeking to change domain name system (DNS) settings. Once malicious users access the web administration console of these devices, they can then compromise the device’s data and, in some cases, take over the machine,” Akamai researchers wrote in their report.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2019

As researchers at Agari reported, business email compromise (BEC) attacks have been going mobile. As noted in a blog by Agari’s James Linton : “This foundational conduit between attacker and victim has also now become the focus of evolution, with actors increasingly looking to transfer potential victims from email over to SMS.”.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

This is just the beginning of what will be a long list of CCPA-related lawsuits,” according to a Security Boulevard blog by Jingcong Zhao. Interpol, which helps coordinate police agencies in 194 countries, in late January said it had arrested three people from Indonesia who allegedly compromised hundreds of online shopping websites.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2016

It was reported that the login credentials of more than 32 million Twitter users were compromised. .” Just weeks ago, a password leak caused Twitter to lock millions of user accounts.

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M2P Fintech

JANUARY 22, 2024

Cybersecurity threats are on the rise. Among all the compromised data types, Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is considered the costliest and most vulnerable. In this blog, our experienced engineer, Chandru Chokkalingam , will walk you step-by-step through the intricacies of masking data using Vision framework.

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CoinRemitter

JULY 2, 2024

This blog will address the important question: Is quantum computing a threat to blockchain security? Blockchain Security Blockchain security refers to using cybersecurity methods to protect against attacks and fraud when using blockchain networks. Let’s start by understanding what quantum computing is.

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