Roku disclosed to its customers Friday (April 12) that 591,000 accounts were impacted by two separate cyberattacks. In less than 400 of these cases, hackers logged in and made unauthorized purchases of streaming service subscriptions and Roku hardware products using the payment method stored in these...
Morgan Stanley is reportedly facing investigations by several agencies into how its wealth management division vets and monitors clients who may pose money-laundering risks. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the Federal...
Anti-money laundering (AML) defenses might begin at the point of onboarding. The needs are for all manner of firms — and especially banks and investment management companies — to embrace technology in the service of beefing up their onboarding processes and automating them too. ...
Open banking, the legal framework permitting secure data sharing amongst financial institutions (FIs) and third-party FinTechs to enhance the products and services they offer consumers, has proven to be popular with both regulators and consumers. But when FI executives were asked about open banking, the reviews were mixed. ...
There’s no shortage of damage payments and social engineering fraud can do to a company as well as its member relationships. Creating silos within an organization usually isn’t one of them, but it’s exactly the aim of an upgraded fraud prevention effort from PSCU/Co-op Solutions. The...
American consumers and business owners lost a record $12.5 billion last year to online scammers, marking a 22% spike in cybercrime over 2022, according to the FBI. Despite these losses, the FBI’s newly released annual internet crime report indicates Americans are growing more vigilant. The agency...
Dewald Nolte, chief strategy officer at Entersekt, said 3-D Secure (3DS), the security protocol that was refreshed seven years ago, is an essential tool in fighting fraud. At a high level, 3DS is designed to act as an equivalent to EMV chips and PIN cards, he...
The fallout from the massive data breach at AT&T — where information tied to 73 million current and former account holders was leaked — has yet to be felt. And changing passwords is a start, but by no means will it solve the problem. Bryan...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Monday (April 1) that it now has stronger tools to combat scammers who impersonate government agencies and businesses. A new rule that took effect Monday allows the agency to file federal court cases seeking to recover money for victims of scams...
