Shoppers are using a larger variety of payment options with digital and mobile payments serving as supplements to the traditional cash and card-based payments tools.
Nearly half of all credit card fraud around the world occurs in the U.S., although Americans account for just a quarter of global card volume, according to a recent Barclays report, which claims that the reason for the disproportionate fraud is that the U.S. still relies on outdated magnetic stripes, which are easy for hackers to replicate or manipulate.
Nearly 72 percent of U.S. federal actions involving employee theft in 2014 involved small businesses – organizations with fewer than 500 employees, according to the 2015 Hiscox Embezzlement Watchlist. Within that group, four of every five victim organizations had fewer than 100 employees, and more than half had fewer than 25 employees.
The requirement for financial services businesses to maintain real-time connection to the global economy impairs security precautions, said a new report.
Research from Pindrop Security has found a 30-percent rise in phone fraud attacks on enterprises and more than 86.2 million attacks per month on U.S. consumers.
According to a new report from Barclays, 47% of the world’s credit card fraud happens in the United States, even though Americans only account for 24% of the total credit card volume.
So you want to rob a bank; not saying you should, but... the “best” day is Friday, and the best time is between 9 and 11 a.m. So set your cellphone to an early wake-up call. Concentrate on a branch in a commercial section of the city. Go up to the teller counter and say your threat or hand over a note. Avoid an act of violence; only three percent of incidents of robbery, burglaries and larcenies resulted in violence in 2014. By the way, vastly more perpetrators are killed in a bank robbery compared to customers or employees.
Financial Services and Retail organizations struggle to identify advance threat attacks once they are inside their network, according to a new Ponemon Institute Survey.
As the mobile commerce channel continues to surge, a new study finds that merchants are not keeping pace with growth when it comes to fraud and mobile payment adoption.
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