Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Credit Unions Doing Cyber-Battle
March 02, 2020

Comedy legend Groucho Marx is credited with the famous line, “I don’t want to belong to any club that would have me as a member.” Good thing people don’t feel that way about credit unions (CUs). Quite the opposite, actually. After rumors of decline, CUs...

Fraud Prevention
Deep Dive: How Unsupervised Machine Learning Could Close The Cloud Services Security Gap
March 02, 2020

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Mastercard: Using AI To Cure Healthcare’s $240B Fraud, Waste And Abuse Problem
March 02, 2020

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Latin America’s Dark, Crypto-Driven, Cybercrime Underbelly
February 28, 2020

To get a sense of the new frontiers in cybercrime, and how cryptocurrency helps fraudsters cover their tracks or finance their schemes … look, perhaps, to Latin America. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...

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Dropbox’s Three-Pronged Defense Against Digital Fraud
February 28, 2020

Cloud hosting platforms are charged with storing and protecting vast troves of valuable personal and company information, making them tempting targets for fraudsters. Improper security measures can result in incalculable damage, which makes multi-layered defense systems a top priority. In this month’s Digital Fraud Tracker,...

Cybersecurity
Europe’s Financial Forces Launch Cybersecurity Sharing Initiative
February 27, 2020

A cross-section of European financial powerhouses – including members of the Euro Cyber Resilience Board for pan-European Financial Infrastructures (ECRB), chaired by the European Central Bank (ECB) – have joined forces to launch a sharing initiative for cybersecurity threat information, ECRB announced on Thursday (Feb....

Fraud Prevention
How Dropbox Fights Fraud
February 27, 2020

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Facial Recognition Firm Clearview AI Client List Is Hacked
February 26, 2020

Facial recognition outfit Clearview AI — which collects billions of photos off the internet, and uses them for facial recognition technology — has been hacked, and its entire client list was exposed to malicious actors, according to CNN. The company said it fixed the problem that caused...

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Ex-Microsoft Engineer Guilty Of Pilfering $10M In eCurrency
February 26, 2020

A former Microsoft engineer was found guilty of 18 federal felonies after he stole $10 million worth of digital currency from his ex-employer and used the money to finance a $1.6 million waterfront house, $160,000 Tesla, and other lavish items, the U.S. Department of Justice...