Thousands of high-profile Twitter accounts have been spewing swastikas and spam following the hack of a popular third-party Twitter service called Counter. Sites tied to Amnesty International, the BBC and even tennis star Boris Becker were affected.
VASCO Data Security's Scott Clements on Aligning Security with User Experience
With great efficiencies and cost savings also come great threats and fraud risks. This is today's digital reality, and it is why cybersecurity and the user experience need to be aligned to create digital trust, says Scott Clements of VASCO...
Most organizations that enable users to perform online transactions have implemented security measures to address fraud. Currently, one of the most common safeguards used in a wide array of products/services is two-factor authentication (2FA).
In recent years, 2FA has become employed by global tech leaders like...
Behavioral biometrics has been getting a lot of attention recently due to its ability to uniquely address the challenges posed by social engineering, account takeovers and malware. It is already considered the third most popular biometric technology (after finger and face) and tied with iris.
Nonetheless, as an...
As mobile devices eclipse 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. Thus, hackers have many more opportunities to perpetrate fraud and...
Many IT professionals use remote administration tools to troubleshoot and fix PC problems remotely, just as if they were sitting behind the keyboard themselves. But these tools are also used for different purposes today. Both nation states and hacktivists use modified these tools, creating Remote Access Trojan's...
An overlooked security setting on Twitter may have allowed a hacker to guess the password-reset email addresses tied to accounts used by President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump, Vice President Mike Pence plus a top adviser. What's the risk?
Mobility is transforming enterprises at an unprecedented rate with the continued proliferation of smart devices, explosive development of mobile apps and increased access to work files. Employees are empowered by their organizations to be more productive at virtually any time and from anywhere, adopting policies for...
How important is mobile? For most businesses, mobile represents a highly profitable channel, and one that is critical in attracting new customers, especially the millennial generation.
Where there is growth, there is fraud. The rise of advanced, PC-grade mobile malware, innovative fraud schemes, such as SIM swap...
Over the past three decades, we have witnessed great technological changes in the financial services world and we've seen regulators struggle to keep up with them. For example, electronic payment service
providers such as PayPal (later acquired by eBay) took on the challenge of facilitating global online payments....
Over the past three decades, there have been a great number of technological changes in the financial services world and regulators have struggled to keep up with them. The following white paper discusses the evolution and consequences of the Payments Service Directive and how regulation has gotten more complicated as...
In online banking security, consumer endpoints are commonly considered the "weak link," and for good reason. Banks have no control over their customers' endpoints or the steps their customers take to reduce their risk. To make matters worse, fraudsters now regularly circumvent traditional endpoint protections, such as...
When evaluating and implementing fraud prevention technologies, most security professionals focus on only the fraud avoidance capabilities. They often overlook the potentially significant adverse impact on customers' experience and operational costs. Good fraud prevention solutions must be effective at identifying and...
IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact study and examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying IBM Trusteer solutions. The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial benefit of IBM Trusteer...
Consumer-serving industries are under continual attack, as cybercriminals find that the interface between the customer and the retail outlet is where the money is. The assault is occurring on all fronts, be it through the physical point-of-sale or ecommerce gateway, the enterprise and its supply chain, or the customer...
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