Detect Safe Browsing (DSB), our secure browsing solution, now makes it even easier to defend users against the advanced malware that enables man-in-the-middle and man-in-the-browser attacks.
According to a recent study, 62% of companies were subject to payments fraud in 2014, with 19% of organizations losing more than $250,000. In addition to tangible losses, there’s negative impact that can’t be measured including stockholder trust, employee morale and most importantly, the reputation of the company and its ability to gain and/or retain …
The e-mail reads, “Click here to download your report.” It appears to be from a credible source, but the link leads to a website created solely for the purpose of information theft. Cybers-cammers strike again using phishing e-mails to trick recipients into clicking on links and typing in their personal information. In most instances the …
Fortune Magazine penned an article recently, on how banks are putting hacked credit cards on ‘watch lists’, rather than canceling them immediately, thereby helping banks (and therefore their end users), reduce the overall cost of fraud to an organization. As our CEO, Ricardo Villadiego, notes in the article, ‘”Fraud is a numbers game.”
For the greater part of 2015, both the FBI and the U.S. Secret Service have issued warnings that 2015 could be the year of Spear Phishing. Recently, the U.S. Secret Service issued a new bulletin, warning again that they are seeing a “significant increase in the frequency, sophistication, and fraud losses” associated with these new …
After much effort on behalf of a coalition of organizations and individuals to build security requirements around the generic top-level domain (gTLD) “.bank”, banks will be able to register their unique gTLD starting today (June 24). Now it’s up to the financial services institutions themselves
Last night, password management company LastPass notified users in a blog post that it had been the target of a hack that accessed users’ email addresses, encrypted master passwords, and reminder words and phrases the service asks users to create for those master passwords. In general, we are not a fan of password management tools. …
Last week, millions of government employees were probably quite nervous to hear that their personal data had been stolen by hackers (likely from China), who gained access to a trove of data from the Office of Personnel Management. This week, the same office is opening up even more government employees to more risk, based on …
Over the past six months, there have been a number of changes in the way the big payment and mobile technology players have approached security for payment apps. It had been widely anticipated that the launch of Apple Pay in October 2014 would have a big impact, in part due to the technical aspects of …
ATM skimming remains a big business for organized crime rings. According to a recent article in ATMMarketplace.com, card skimming accounted for more than $2 billion in losses. One new approach that banks are exploring to mitigate this particular vector of fraud, is the notion of using smartphones as a second
