Tax scam fraudsters are getting smarter, and their schemes are growing more sophisticated, targeting not just individual consumers, but also employees with access to sensitive personal and financial data. Here are simple ways to avoid getting hooked by the latest tax phishing scams.
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The EU’s Payment Services Directive II (PSD2) has generated many questions from the financial services and payments industry. So much so we have found some in the industry turning to RSA for advice and guidance on the key considerations they need to put forth as they prepare to issue requests for proposals from potential consumer…
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Several years ago, I was talking to an organization which had recently deployed risk-based authentication on its online customer portal. Based on their business model, I was especially curious to learn why they had selected to add consumer authentication to their website. The answer was simple, “It is a competitive advantage for us.” Fast forward…
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How fast can you find fraud? That is the challenge put forth by the RSA Fraud & Risk Intelligence team at RSA Conference 2017. Why the emphasis on speed? Simply put, the faster an organization can isolate the source of fraud, the faster they can respond. And based on RSA’s research, there is a gaping…
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As long as users can be fooled, phishing will continue to proliferate. In fact, many major breaches start as a targeted phishing email. According to the latest statistics from RSA FraudAction researchers, more than one million unique attacks have been identified in the last 12 months, or, more simply put, a new phishing attack is launched every 30…
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According to the FBI the incursion of ransomware has just gone from bad to worse. In a recent alert, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned that recent ransomware variants have targeted and compromised vulnerable business servers to identify and target hosts, thereby multiplying the number of potential infected servers and devices on a network. More…
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