Whenever a bad actor gains access to another party's legitimate account, this is called an Account Takeover (ATO). Not only are ATO attacks tough to spot, they can also cause a lot of harm beyond just stolen goods and chargebacks, including backlash from upset customers. In this guide, we dive into how these attacks...
Cyberattacks and damages due to business email being breached dramatically increased again this past year. The FBI estimates $5 billion in losses worldwide as email continues to be a primary attack vector for the initial compromise.
As organizations move their email infrastructure to cloud solutions like Office...
Identity management is becoming increasingly important in this era where massive data breaches and credential harvesting are a regular occurrence. To make matters worse, mobility and cloud have increased the attack surface. Businesses that have unreasonable expectations from users on access hygiene and rely on...
99% of account takeover attacks begin with automation, and they pave the way for future ATO. Today's sophisticated scripts can bypass traditional measures that rely purely on device intelligence or static data. Learn how to block sophisticated attacks with behavioral biometrics before they create fraud losses.
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The alluring promise of gold inspired almost half-a-million to risk it all and rush to California in the mid-20th century in hopes of striking it rich. Although gold mining was fruitless for the most part, cunning opportunists profited off of desperate '49ers by selling synthetic gold or mines of no real value. A...
This monthly Security Agenda will highlight some of the most recent additions to our course library. This month's edition features Federal Reserve's Jim Cunha on the future of secure payments. Another influencer, Amazon Web Services' Keith Carlson discusses future proofing against fraud. This edition also highlights...
Brett Johnson was a career fraudster - he stole millions from victims by pioneering a plethora of cyber fraud schemes. Aaron Sherman is a career law enforcement agent - most recently operating as a cyber special agent with the FBI. Together, they offer a two-pronged look at some of today's top cybercrimes - how they...
Accidentally careless employees are the biggest cause of incidents involving data loss, responsible for almost 25 percent of all breaches.
Given that employees are the first line of defense against socially engineered schemes, such as account takeover, new account fraud and other crimes, doesn't it make sense to...
As mobile devices overtake computers and laptops as the preferred method of going online, fraudsters have followed users, porting their modus operandi - account takeover, social engineering, and malware based remote control attacks - to the mobile arena. Mobile activity has presented hackers with many more...
With the adoption of the EMV standard for payment cards, the associated card fraud has increasingly gone down. This has resulted in cyber criminals shifting focus to other forms of fraud such as gift card fraud and fraud related to online retail purchases which are processed as Card Not Present (CNP) transactions....
Many banking institutions boast of being "digital first" and enabling "omnichannel banking." But are they fully aware of the new fraud risks they also are inviting? This whitepaper takes a deep dive into discussing how to mitigate omnichannel fraud and why it is not just a banking issue. There is a need for...
Security hygiene can be poor, and criminals know it. Fraudulent activity costs are in the billions worldwide across industries, and over 16 million consumers in the US were victims of identity theft or fraud in the past year. Learning to onboard new data at the speed of the business will ensure your fraud team can...
Fraud is a pervasive and insidious attack on all. Financial service organizations, retailers, insurers, healthcare providers, governments - they all bear the burden. What can be done to more effectively reduce this scourge?
In this session, Art Coviello, former CEO of RSA Security, draws on his decades of security...
The cyberthreat landscape is rapidly changing. As attacks continue to increase in volume and sophistication, agency defenses also must evolve.
In order to do so, many agencies are moving toward a more holistic, analytics-driven approach to security. By gaining an end-to-end view of what's happening inside an...
As you probably know, protecting applications with just a password is a recipe for breaches. What you might not know is that the situation is getting worse. The 2016 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) stated that nearly two-thirds of data breaches involve weak, default, or stolen passwords; the 2017...
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