Phishing Attacks impersonate organizations or businesses through phishing emails and fake websites. The criminals who engage in phishing attacks seek access to private and sensitive information, like login credentials, credit card details, and social security numbers. Every year, fraudsters get smarter and their techniques become more sophisticated. By constantly changing their tactics, they continue to […]
Every day, email inboxes fill up with annoying, unwanted messages. However, some of these junk messages are malicious/ phishing attacks. By using phishing emails, texts, or social media posts that lead to phishing sites, fraudsters attempt to deceive you into revealing your personal and sensitive information – bank account numbers, credit card info, Social Security […]
FraudWatch International has made significant headway in its R&D labs with real-time, high-velocity image recognition scanning. So far it has yielded encouraging results around accuracy of brand detection from a huge volume of data sources and across multiple brands. Image Recognition Simply stated, image recognition is the ability to detect an image. Basically, image recognition […]
When a customer goes into a store or restaurant, most don’t imagine ending up as part of a malware attack. Yet, cyber-attacks are quite common. According to Inc., in the past 12 months, over 50% of all small to medium-sized businesses experienced a cybersecurity breach. In 2018, a malware attack on Chili’s restaurants left customers’ credit card […]
Cyber threats have become an ever-present part of modern life. From high-profile corporations to small companies, no business or organization is immune to these threats. Consequently, protecting your company is now a regular cost of doing business. What kinds of threats are we talking about? Here are some examples: Over the past few years, London’s […]
There’s good news and bad news. The good news: advances in technology have changed our lives in many positive ways. The bad news: crooks keep pace with technological innovations and adjust their scams accordingly. One of the many technology-based criminal scams is ‘vishing’. What is vishing? The word ‘vishing’ is a combination of ‘voice’ and […]
What is mobile application security? Mobile app security is the measure and means of defending mobile device apps from digital fraud in the form of malware, hacking, and other criminal manipulation. Mobile app security can be implemented by both technological means alongside personal responses and corporate processes intended to safeguard digital integrity on mobile devices. […]
When you first think of social media threats, what most people might point out are trolls, fake accounts, and fake followers via purchased services, or maybe the “fake news” accusations flying about everywhere. What’s often overlooked in social media security, though, is how it can be used to harm organizations and their customers via threats […]
Companies can spend decades building a vibrant, engaged, and trusted brand—all to have it devastated and stripped away in mere moments by the fallout of online fraud. In this era of identity theft, data hacks, and virtual crime, your customers trust you to protect their private information and go above-and-beyond to defend them from being […]
Does your business have employees? If so, cybersecurity (and cybersecurity awareness) are critical to your survival in an industry dominated by growing virtual crime. Certainly, most people know about costly identity theft and reputation-destroying network hacks, which seem to be on the news almost every day. Organizations implement firewalls, comprehensive cybersecurity defense systems, and sophisticated […]