Today’s Fraud News from around the world:
Mind Over Matter: Revamping Security Awareness With Psychology: Our current approach to cybersecurity awareness is broken. Often, security leaders treat employees as the weakest link in an organization’s security chain, yet they should be viewed as an organization …: “Phishing” – BingNews
Why home and hybrid working is best for small firms: The government may be encouraging people to return to work, but new research has found that workers in small businesses are twice as likely as those in larger firms to continue working from home. A …: “Phishing” – BingNews
29% of corporate users in Kenya experienced financial malware attacks in the first half of 2021, Kaspersky: Although Kaspersky’s research shows that the overall number of financial malware attacks in Kenya has decreased in the first half of 2021, when compared to the same period in 2020, 29.3% of the 7 962 …: “Phishing” – BingNews
Google Streamlines Its Titan Keys by Adding NFC and Ditching Bluetooth: Google’s Titan Key has been credited with eliminating phishing attacks on Google employees, and now this week Google is updating its line of security dongles with wider support for NFC. The new Google …: “Phishing” – BingNews
Security Summit warns tax pros to be wary of pandemic-related email schemes: In a continuing twist on a common scam, the Internal Revenue Service, state tax agencies and tax industry today warned tax professionals to beware of evolving phishing scams that use various …: “Phishing” – BingNews
Companies Still Exposing Sensitive Data via Known Salesforce Misconfiguration: Organizations have been warned that a misconfiguration in Salesforce Communities can lead to the exposure of sensitive information. While the misconfiguration has been known since at least last year …: “Phishing” – BingNews
How Understanding Cybercriminal Behavior Can Keep Your Company Safe: By Zack Schuler, founder and CEO of NINJIO Cybercriminals are experts at exploiting vulnerabilities. While security tools are constantly improving, …: “Phishing” – BingNews
Simplified Google Titan Security Key lineup shipping August 10: Google’s Titan Security Key lineup has been cut down to just USB-A and USB-C models, both with NFC capabilities, and the company has canned the older Bluetooth models.: “Phishing” – BingNews
Cyber criminals leak one million credit cards on the dark web: Hackers have given away the details of over a million stolen credit cards in a bid to promote a new cyber criminal carding marketplace on the dark web. The cards were stolen between 2018 and 2019 and …: “Phishing” – BingNews
WhatsApp users issued warning over message that can empty your bank account: Anyone who regularly uses Whatsapp to keep in touch with family, friends and colleagues is being warned over a rogue message doing the rounds that can potentiallly empty your bank account. The popular …: “Phishing” – BingNews
Fraud Prevention Tip: 3-D Secure: A somewhat recent technological development, in this system a there is an added layer of confirmation and security to ensure that fraud related incidents are minimized. It includes or spans three domains, hence the name 3-D . The first one is the acquirer domain which represents the bank and the merchant to whom money is being paid. The second one is the issuer domain which represents the bank which issued the card being used. The last one is the Interoperability Domain this represents the infrastructure provided by the card scheme, credit, debit, prepaid or other type of finance card, to support the 3-D Secure Protocol. This can be the Internet or a telecom service provider. For example a code could be sent to the customer’s registered cell phone number with issuer domain, and the customer would have to enter in the given code to proceed with the online transaction.