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Spear Phishing for Dollars: Hackers masquerading as corporate executives pose a global threat to businesses
In August 2015, the FBI issued an alert describing the newest form of cyberattack: business email compromise (BEC).[1] BEC is a sophisticated mutation of the now-common spear phishing data-breach technique.[2] In a BEC scam, a hacker often impersonates a high-ranking corporate executive...
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Chipping Away at Fraud Risk: EMV cards are transforming the cashless payment universe
MCC: MasterCard and Visa set a deadline of October 1 for U.S. financial card issuers to replace the familiar magnetic strips with EMV (chip) cards, and for merchants to start accepting them or face a shift in liability for fraudulent transactions to the party that has failed to adopt the new cards...
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Secrets and Lies: Corporate data security lessons from the Ashley Madison hack
Many people followed the news about the AshleyMadison.com data breach with a mix of prurient interest, schadenfreude, and – for some – fear of personal exposure. My colleagues at DiscoverReady and I followed the news to understand the data security failures that allowed a breach...
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