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Nov 5, 20212 min read
Facebook Data Breach Affecting 30 Million Users Makes Victims More Susceptible to Account Takeover
While nearly 30 million Facebook users had their names and basic contact information stolen, about 14 million of these data breach...
Fraud Practice
Nov 4, 20212 min read
Millennials Are Group Most Likely to be Victims of Both Telephone and Online Scams
Multiple studies have recently shown that across all age groups it is Millennials who are most likely to fall victim to scams carried out...
Fraud Practice
Nov 4, 20213 min read
Facebooks Leads the Way, But Many Social Media Platforms DriveTraffic and Sales
The top 500 online retailers in terms of site traffic from social media earned $3.3 billion in revenue from social shopping in 2014 while...
Fraud Practice
Nov 4, 20212 min read
Using Social Media to Drive More Sales
Most eCommerce merchants have a social media presence these days, but not all are using it to their full potential. The Fraud Practice...
Fraud Practice
Nov 3, 20212 min read
Social media is a gold mine for fraudsters
Visa survey shows 58 percent of consumers are aware of sharing information that could put them at risk. Late 2013, Visa performed a...
Fraud Practice
Nov 3, 20211 min read
Major Facebook permissions bug found by producers of privacy app
When bug-testing a new Facebook app, a group of programmers recently stumbled over a dangerous and previously unknown Facebook bug. With...
David Montague
Nov 2, 20212 min read
Spammers Scrape Facebook Friends for Targeted Phishing Attacks
Facebook recently announced that they uncovered an incident where fraudsters used compromised email addresses to scrape lists of Facebook...
David Montague
Nov 1, 20212 min read
Facebook Stops 600,000 Account Takeover Attempts Each Day
As the world’s largest social network and the second most visited website it should come as no surprise that Facebook sees a lot of...
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