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Over Half of Malware Analysts Have Investigated Enterprise Data Breaches That Were Not Disclosed

Nov 3, 20211 min read

Over Half of Malware Analysts Have Investigated Enterprise Data Breaches That Were Not Disclosed

According to a survey conducted by ThreatTrack Security, there may be considerably more data breaches occurring than the public hears...

PRESS RELEASE: 3 Techniques You Can Still Implement To Improve Fraud Detection This Holiday

David Montague

Nov 3, 20216 min read

PRESS RELEASE: 3 Techniques You Can Still Implement To Improve Fraud Detection This Holiday

Sarasota, FL, November 4, 2013 / By: David Montague, The Fraud Practice LLC. It is that time of year again, the holidays are almost here,...

Considerations for Handling Increased Traffic and Changing Consumer Preferences this Holiday Season

Fraud Practice

Nov 3, 20213 min read

Considerations for Handling Increased Traffic and Changing Consumer Preferences this Holiday Season

Online shopping has grown year-after-year while becoming an increasingly important portion of total Q4 retail sales. Last Cyber Monday...

Manual Fraud Prevention for Small Businesses

Fraud Practice

Nov 3, 20215 min read

Manual Fraud Prevention for Small Businesses

A guest post by: K. Volker, Certified eCommerce Fraud Professional It is often not feasible for small merchants just opening an online...

95 Percent of Americans Received Email with Malware and 9 Percent Opened the Attachment

Fraud Practice

Nov 3, 20212 min read

95 Percent of Americans Received Email with Malware and 9 Percent Opened the Attachment

According to a recent report from Halon, an email security provider, 94.7 percent of Americans received one or more emails that contained...

SMiShing Scams Target U.S. Area Codes Utilizing Location-Specific Information

Fraud Practice

Nov 3, 20212 min read

SMiShing Scams Target U.S. Area Codes Utilizing Location-Specific Information

Phishing scams carried out via SMS text messages, known as SMiShing, continue to grow and target mobile users in the United States....

More Brands Targeted with Phishing Attacks so far in 2013

Fraud Practice

Nov 3, 20212 min read

More Brands Targeted with Phishing Attacks so far in 2013

During the first six months of 2013 720 different brands were targeted by phishing attacks, an increase of 18 percent from the last six...

Avoiding Customer Service Chargebacks for your Online Business

Fraud Practice

Nov 3, 20213 min read

Avoiding Customer Service Chargebacks for your Online Business

A guest post by: J. Ruzicka, Certified eCommerce Fraud Professional When reconciling your past chargebacks it is important to categorize...

Fraud Practice

Nov 3, 20212 min read

Mobile Data & Consumer Authentication

More consumers have mobile phones than have credit cards. This is true in the United States as well as globally and in all major markets....

Petition Against Passwords Underscores Importance of Additional Authentication

Fraud Practice

Nov 3, 20212 min read

Petition Against Passwords Underscores Importance of Additional Authentication

The Petition Against Passwords is a public advocacy campaign that supports alternatives to usernames and passwords, which the group says...

Twitter Implements Non-SMS based Two-Factor Authentication

Fraud Practice

Nov 3, 20212 min read

Twitter Implements Non-SMS based Two-Factor Authentication

Twitter joins Google and Facebook as another internet titan that offers more security conscious consumers the ability to use two-factor...

Press Release: Many Businesses Are Unprepared for the Growing Risk of Account Takeover

Fraud Practice

Nov 3, 20215 min read

Press Release: Many Businesses Are Unprepared for the Growing Risk of Account Takeover

We are starting to see more and more fraudsters focusing larger efforts on using account takeover (ATO) to perpetrate fraud. Most likely...

PRESS RELEASE: Finally an Option to Implement 3-D Secure that Actually Makes Sense

Fraud Practice

Nov 3, 20217 min read

PRESS RELEASE: Finally an Option to Implement 3-D Secure that Actually Makes Sense

Sarasota, FL, March 18, 2013 / By: David Montague I can’t tell you how many times I have been asked my opinion on the 3-D Secure programs...

PRESS RELEASE: Reversing the Identity Authentication Lookup

Fraud Practice

Nov 3, 20214 min read

PRESS RELEASE: Reversing the Identity Authentication Lookup

COMPARISON OF THE IDENTITY AUTHENTICATION AND REVERSE LOOKUP TECHNIQUES Sarasota, FL, March 15, 2013 / By: David Montague Merchants...

Retailer Sues Visa in Attempts to Recover Fines for Data Breach

Fraud Practice

Nov 3, 20212 min read

Retailer Sues Visa in Attempts to Recover Fines for Data Breach

A retailer suffering a data compromise in 2010 was ultimately responsible for $13.3 million in fines from Visa levied against two...

Fraudsters Pass KBAs to Obtain Celebrity Credit Reports

Fraud Practice

Nov 3, 20212 min read

Fraudsters Pass KBAs to Obtain Celebrity Credit Reports

Using AnnualCreditReport.com, a site setup by the three major credit reporting bureaus in the United States for consumers to obtain free...

Study Finds Facebook ‘Likes’ Can be Used to Determine Demographic and Personal Information

Fraud Practice

Nov 3, 20212 min read

Study Finds Facebook ‘Likes’ Can be Used to Determine Demographic and Personal Information

While many social media users have become more aware of privacy issues and have made their profiles private, a recent academic study has...

Javelin Finds Number of U.S. Identity Fraud Victims Increased by 1 Million in 2012

Fraud Practice

Nov 3, 20212 min read

Javelin Finds Number of U.S. Identity Fraud Victims Increased by 1 Million in 2012

According to a recent study by Javelin Strategy & Research, the number of identity fraud victims in the United States increased by more...

Gartner Predicts Rapid Growth in Use of Social Network Identities for e-Retail

Fraud Practice

Nov 3, 20213 min read

Gartner Predicts Rapid Growth in Use of Social Network Identities for e-Retail

Gartner estimates that 5 percent of new retail customers’ identities are based on social network profiles and identities today, but they...

Eleven Florida Identity Tax Return Fraud Ring Members Arrested

Fraud Practice

Nov 2, 20212 min read

Eleven Florida Identity Tax Return Fraud Ring Members Arrested

Tax refund fraud is a growing crime that costs the federal government billions each year. Eleven members of an identity fraud ring...

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