Equifax, the credit scoring company embroiled in a 2017 data breach scandal, disclosed news on Thursday (March 1) that has identified 2.4 million more consumers in the U.S. whose partial driver’s license information was stolen. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
Reports out this morning indicated that a whistleblower inside Denmark’s biggest bank warned the institution that its Estonian branch was being used by members of the Putin family as a front for money laundering. That warning was reportedly in 2013. Get the Full Story Complete...
Email phishing has remained one of the most popular ways to trick people out of their money since the days of false Nigerian princes, who claimed they would share their inheritance with random strangers in a foreign land if those strangers could just do them...
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New research out from the cybersecurity team at Kaspersky Lab indicates that DDoS attacks are costly today — and getting more so by the minute. According to the report, SMBs can count on a price tag of around $120 thousand on the attack, while enterprise-level...
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So-called “burst attacks” are a rising threat to organizations as they grow in complexity, frequency and duration. In fact, one study found that 42 percent of organizations experienced this type of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack last year, Cisco said in a new report....
The Mueller indictments exposed the weak links that plague IDV in the U.S. — even highlighting that a rules-based system is flawed at best. To beat the bad guys at their game, the best defense is a robust offense that examines identities from both an...
India’s police took more action in their investigation of the loan scam at Punjab National Bank (PNB), arresting three more employees of the bank. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...
