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Dyre Malware Picks Up Where Zeus Left Off
Since the takedown of the Zeus botnet in June 2014 fraudsters have moved to a new malware of choice, known as Dyre, which also seeks to...
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Nov 4, 20213 min read
MasterCard Forms New Partnerships to Proliferate Use of Tokens
MasterCard seeks to solidify their place as a premier token service provider as they recently formed partnerships with Synchrony...
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Nov 4, 20212 min read
Taxpayer Data Stolen from IRS Used to File Up to $39 Million in Fraudulent Returns
Between February and May fraudsters used compromised consumer information to obtain more detailed tax payer data via the IRS’s “get...
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Nov 4, 20212 min read
Critical Capabilities that can Enable Custom Modeling Solutions to Improve Business Intelligence
Sarasota, FL, June 10, 2015 / By: Justin McDonald, The Fraud Practice LLC Big Data and Business Intelligence have become two common...
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Nov 4, 20218 min read
Facebooks Leads the Way, But Many Social Media Platforms DriveTraffic and Sales
The top 500 online retailers in terms of site traffic from social media earned $3.3 billion in revenue from social shopping in 2014 while...
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Nov 4, 20213 min read
Growing Mobile Traffic Underscores Importance of Mobile Friendly Sites and Apps
According to data from comScore, 13 percent of U.S. Internet users that visited retailers online did so only using mobile devices,...
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Nov 4, 20214 min read
Mitek Systems Acquires IDchecker for $10.6 Million
Mitek, who specializes in mobile onboarding and capturing solutions, announced they would be acquiring identity document verification...
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Nov 4, 20212 min read
Over 44 Percent of Online Payments in the UK are Made via Mobile
According to data from Adyen based on client transaction data, more than 27 percent of online payments made in the first quarter of 2015...
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Nov 4, 20213 min read
Pitney Bowes Acquirers Global eCommerce Provider Borderfree
Borderfree, a publicly traded company providing site localization, global logistics services and other solutions for eCommerce merchants...
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Nov 4, 20211 min read
How Manual Review Metrics Vary Across Small and Large Merchants
It can be difficult for merchants to really understand how well they are performing with manual reviews for online fraud management...
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Nov 4, 20214 min read
Get Ready for Facebook’s Foray into Payments
Facebook announced new features to their Messenger service in March allowing users to make P2P payments, but didn’t stop there. They have...
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Nov 4, 20213 min read
With Custom Modeling, Deployment is Just as Critical as Design
Sarasota, FL, March 18, 2015 / By: Justin McDonald, The Fraud Practice LLC Custom modeling and analytics is an advanced risk management...
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Nov 4, 202110 min read
The FIDO (Fast Identity Online) Alliance released their first documents for stronger authentication
Following Apple’s lead Samsung and Google each announced mobile payment services of their own with a similar naming structure. The...
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Nov 4, 20214 min read
Are the FIDO Alliance Authentication Specifications the Beginning of the End for Passwords?
The FIDO (Fast Identity Online) Alliance released their first documents for stronger authentication at the end of 2014 with version 1.0...
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Nov 4, 20213 min read
Samsung Acquires Mobile Payment Technology Startup LoopPay
Samsung, one of the primary Google Wallet partners, announced in late February that they would acquire mobile contactless payment...
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Nov 4, 20213 min read
Visa Working with Issuers to Expand use of Mobile Geolocating to Verify Card Present Transactions
Visa has partnered with Finsphere, a geospatial analytics company, to provide location information of mobile devices at the time of a...
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Nov 4, 20212 min read
Side Effects Expected in 2015 and Beyond as EMV Adoption Grows
2015 will likely bring many changes and developments in the payments and risk industries, but none more anticipated than the EMV...
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Nov 4, 20214 min read
In 2015 Achieving PCI Compliance Means Meeting the Version 3.0 Standards
The first big change for payments in 2015 took effect on January 1st when the deadline to meet PCI Data Security Standards (DSS) version...
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Nov 4, 20212 min read
NACHA, The Clearing House and the Federal Reserve Seek to Make Same Day ACH Payments a Reality
In early December the Electronic Payments Association, alternatively known as NACHA, released more details on their proposal for a...
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Nov 4, 20213 min read
Identity Document Verification as a Lowest Common Denominator Risk Management Technique
Sarasota, FL, November 20, 2014 / By: David Montague, The Fraud Practice LLC Identity document verification has evolved as a risk...
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Nov 4, 20215 min read
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