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Industry News

Identity Fraud in the U.S. Increases for Second Consecutive Year

Identity fraud occurred every three seconds in the United States and led to $21 billion dollars in losses in 2012 according to Javelin…

Nov 3, 2021 · 2 min read
Data Breach

Increase in Targeted Attacks Against Small Businesses

A recent study and report from Symantec found that targeted attacks against small businesses greatly increased in 2012 as cyberattacks…

Nov 3, 2021 · 1 min read
Fraud Prevention

Javelin Finds Number of U.S. Identity Fraud Victims Increased by 1 Million in 2012

According to a recent study by Javelin Strategy & Research, the number of identity fraud victims in the United States increased by more…

Nov 3, 2021 · 2 min read
Data Breach

LivingSocial Data Breach Comprises Information of 50 Million Users

Daily deal website LivingSocial suffered a data breach compromising emails, passwords and more information for most of the site’s users…

Nov 3, 2021 · 1 min read
Data Breach

National response to criminal cyber-attacks?

In the aftermath of several large US retailers being targeted by data theft, the National Retail Federation urges Congress to act and…

Nov 3, 2021 · 2 min read
Data Breach

Over Half of Malware Analysts Have Investigated Enterprise Data Breaches That Were Not Disclosed

According to a survey conducted by ThreatTrack Security, there may be considerably more data breaches occurring than the public hears…

Nov 3, 2021 · 1 min read
Fraud Prevention

Press Release: Many Businesses Are Unprepared for the Growing Risk of Account Takeover

We are starting to see more and more fraudsters focusing larger efforts on using account takeover (ATO) to perpetrate fraud. Most likely it…

Nov 3, 2021 · 5 min read
Data Breach

Retailer Sues Visa in Attempts to Recover Fines for Data Breach

A retailer suffering a data compromise in 2010 was ultimately responsible for $13.3 million in fines from Visa levied against two acquiring…

Nov 3, 2021 · 2 min read
Data Breach

Adobe Breach Compromises 150,000 Customer Records

After a hacker posted a sample of compromised records online Adobe confirmed a breach affecting 150,000 customers through a vulnerability…

Nov 2, 2021 · 1 min read
Data Breach

Anonymous Posts Bank Exec Data Stolen from the Federal Reserve

The personal information of over 4,000 banking executives was stolen from a compromised server at the Federal Reserve and then posted…

Nov 2, 2021 · 2 min read
Data Breach

AntiSec Hackers Claim Data from 12 million Apple Users Stolen from FBI

The hactivist group AntiSec, associated with Anonymous, released a list of one million Apple Unique Device Identifiers (UDIDs) while…

Nov 2, 2021 · 2 min read
Data Breach

LinkedIn Suffers Data Breach, Now Faces Lawsuit

Nearly 6.5 million passwords were posted on a Russian based hacker forum website and on June 6th LinkedIn confirmed that these passwords…

Nov 2, 2021 · 1 min read