More than 3,800 data breaches occurred in the first half of this year, a 54 percent increase from the first half of 2018. The number of consumer records compromised in data breaches increased 52 percent over this time, with 4.1 billion records compromised in the first half of 2019 and 3.2 billion of those coming
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A new white paper from The Fraud Practice titled “Identifying and Streamlining Low Risk Customers or Applicants: Techniques and Benefits” is now available. This free white paper discusses the application of technology and techniques to derive signals of low or reduced risk and the benefits of identifying such orders in terms of conversion and screening
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In partnership with another Alphabet group company, Google recently released a way for consumers to test their skills in detecting phishing emails. It includes eight simulated emails based on characteristics of real phishing attacks, where the user is to indicate whether each email is legitimate or fake. According to a recent survey, 83 percent of
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According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, who just released their 2018 End-of-Year Data Breach Report, the number of data breaches fell by nearly 25 percent compared to 2017, but the number of compromised records containing personally identifiable information (PII) more than doubled to 446.5 million. Although the total number of data breaches declined in
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Card Not Present channel Merchants cite order rejection rates of nearly 3 percent for domestic transactions and nearly 7 percent for international orders. Meanwhile more than half of merchants depend on AVS and CVV checks, considering them to be effective fraud tools. While most merchants measure fraud rates and order rejection rates, far fewer take
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How well would your fraud management program perform if your organization depended on it for doing business with customers from countries like Ukraine and Nigeria? Now what if we said your business was facilitating money remittances to these countries? WireCash is doing just that, and we sought to uncover how this could be possible by
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Financial Fraud Action (FFA) UK, a financial services industry research and reporting group, recently released their 2016 year-end payment card and banking fraud totals which showed an increase in card fraud overall, primarily led by card not present channel fraud. Changing trends include an increase in fraud attempts but targeting lower order amounts compared to
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According to recent data from Experian, eCommerce fraud was 15 percent higher in the first half of 2016 compared the same period the year before, but for the full-year eCommerce fraud attack rates increased to 33 percent. This implies an even greater increase in CNP fraud in the second half of the year, and it
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It’s no secret that fraudsters increase their activity and fraud attempts during the holiday season when many merchants are at peak volume, but considering other fraud factors ACI Worldwide predicts a more than 40 percent increase in fraud this holiday season. Meanwhile the FBI warns of fraudulent merchants, mobile apps with malware and work from
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Whether an organization is building a custom modeling solution in-house, using a service provider or combining both in-house and third party resources, the fundamental components of an effective custom modeling solution are the same. Statistical models must first be created, which requires historical data, a team of modeling experts, as well as the right tools
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