security & fraud

Fraud Makes Headway Via ‘Payroll Diversion’
Fraud Makes Headway Via ‘Payroll Diversion’
January 25, 2019  |  B2B Payments

Corporate fraud – from within the company, and from without – continues to make headlines and headway, with the past week having seen some revisits...

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Advocacy Groups Call On FTC To Break Up Facebook
Advocacy Groups Call On FTC To Break Up Facebook
January 24, 2019  |  Facebook

Facebook is facing breakup calls from a handful of advocacy groups that want the Federal Trade Commission to explore breaking up the social media giant....

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Fed To Investigate Deutsche Bank’s Role In Danske Bank Scandal
Fed To Investigate Deutsche Bank’s Role In Danske Bank Scandal
January 23, 2019  |  Bank Regulation

Deutsche Bank’s handling of billions of dollars in suspicious transactions from Danske Bank’s Estonian branch is raising the ire of the Federal Reserve, which is...

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Hackers Steal Discount Vouchers From Pinduoduo
Hackers Steal Discount Vouchers From Pinduoduo
January 21, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

Pinduoduo, the Chinese Nasdaq-listed Internet marketplace that lets consumers get discounts from merchants, announced Sunday (January 20) that an online collective stole tens of millions...

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Symantec Spots Attacks On West African Financial Institutions
Symantec Spots Attacks On West African Financial Institutions
January 17, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

Hackers are targeting financial firms in the Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Congo, Ghana and Equatorial Guinea, using commodity malware and living off the land tools, reported...

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Signet Jewelers To Pay $11M After Creating Fake Accounts
Signet Jewelers To Pay $11M After Creating Fake Accounts
January 17, 2019  |  Retail

According to a settlement that was signed with a wholly owned subsidiary, Signet Jewelers Ltd. is to pay federal and state regulators penalties of $11 million for...

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Check Point Finds Flaws In Fortnite’s Single Sign-On System
Check Point Finds Flaws In Fortnite’s Single Sign-On System
January 16, 2019  |  Safety and Security

Through a series of vulnerabilities in the technology of the Fortnite game, an attacker could have been able to gain control of user accounts on...

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Ukraine Hacker, Others Charged In Hacking SEC’s EDGAR Database
Ukraine Hacker, Others Charged In Hacking SEC’s EDGAR Database
January 15, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

U.S. authorities charged a hacker residing in Ukraine and several others on Tuesday (Jan. 15) with trading on non-public corporate earnings information they got by...

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Bitcoin Regains Some Of Its Weekend Losses
Bitcoin Regains Some Of Its Weekend Losses
January 14, 2019  |  Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency, climbed somewhat from a decline below $3,500 over the weekend, which was its lowest level since Dec. 18. Get the Full Story...

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