Mobile devices are expected to become the dominant banking and payment channel in the near future. This puts them directly in the cross-hairs of threat actors around the world as a prime vector to gain access to your information, network and money. In this session we'll see exactly how rogue apps, malware and...
In the past year, so-called business email compromise attacks, also known as "masquerading" and "executive impersonation," have emerged as one of the banking industry's greatest wire fraud worries. These schemes threaten to overshadow what the industry previously saw from commercial account takeover incidents.
In...
As recent incidents prove: Retail point-of-sale breaches are on the rise, creating greater payment card fraud headaches for banking institutions. How does the impact of these crimes compare to that of account takeover, check fraud, insider crimes and the emerging realms of virtual and mobile payments? Receive insights...
As various batches of stolen credit card "dumps" are offered for sale with discount structures and money-back guarantees, it is clear just how sophisticated the Fraud Ecosystem has become. The fraudsters and their support teams have created well-organized forums offering a broad variety of products that constitute a...
In the wake of a breach, most organizations struggle with a number of concerns related to response, mitigation and notification. While immediate and full disclosure of a breach, in theory, sounds like the most practical advice, it's not always the best move for every organization. The nature of the breach, whether the...
See the startling results of meticulous analysis of hundreds of real-life insider attacks from the team at Carnegie Mellon University, where the CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) function was created. The analysis results clearly indicate that, contrary to the majority of headlines, stealthy insiders pose a huge...
As the U.S. embarks upon its migration to EMV, fraudsters will begin testing other vulnerabilities and channels to exploit. As EMV alone does not protect all transaction-related data from exposure during a breach, we need to take a look at a broad range of complementary technologies, such as tokenization, encryption...
Coming off of 2014, the proverbial "year of the breach," 2015 has not been a year into which fraud analysts and cybersecurity officers entered blindly. A number of the trends we saw emerge in 2014 will influence not only the future attacks we see waged by hackers, but also the mitigation techniques and strategies...
Our identities are clearly becoming more and more of a critical asset every day, providing us access to and authority within every aspect of our personal, financial and professional lives. Because of this, their value is increasing exponentially, thus making their theft far more lucrative. In this opening session...
As recent incidents prove: Retail point-of-sale breaches are on the rise, creating greater payment card fraud headaches for banking institutions. How does the impact of these crimes compare to that of account takeover, check fraud, insider crimes and the emerging realms of virtual and mobile payments? Receive insights...
See the startling results of meticulous analysis of hundreds of real-life insider attacks from the team at Carnegie Mellon University, where the CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) function was created. The analysis results clearly indicate that, contrary to the majority of headlines, stealthy insiders pose a huge...
As various batches of stolen credit card "dumps" are offered for sale with discount structures and money-back guarantees, it is clear just how sophisticated the Fraud Ecosystem has become. The fraudsters and their support teams have created well-organized forums offering a broad variety of products that constitute a...
Mobile banking is growing out of its infancy and experts predict it will soon be the dominant banking and payments channel. However, with mobile operating systems and their varying support of security best practices, multiple new threat vectors are being introduced and many are already being widely utilized for...
Public-sector organizations need to better understand the driving forces, priorities and procedures within the organizations they "protect." But equally as important is that the private sector organizations reciprocate and understand the how, what and why of the law enforcement/public body process.
This mutual...
Part 1 - EMV Here We Come
If you squeeze a balloon in one place, it will expand in another. When we secure in-person transactions with EMV, the fraudsters will begin testing other channels of entry, and one of the least secure portals is that of card-not-present (CNP), online transactions. Many other regions have...
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