This year's MRC/Cybersource report pays particular attention to the impact of COVID-19 on fraud prevention across 650 global merchants.
Join us for our upcoming Webinars discussing trends in account-to-account payments, the role of trust in reviewing transactions, hybrid threats and attacks, and much more.
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Industry News
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Missouri Governor Vows to Prosecute St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Reporting Security Vulnerability
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How Coinbase Phishers Steal One-Time Passwords
A recent phishing campaign targeting Coinbase users shows thieves are getting cleverer about phishing one-time passwords (OTPs) needed to complete th[…]
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Patch Tuesday, October 2021 Edition
Microsoft today issued updates to plug more than 70 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, including one vulnerability t[…]
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What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, & WhatsApp?
Facebook and its sister properties Instagram and WhatsApp are suffering from ongoing, global outages. We don't yet know why this happened, but the ho[…]
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FCC Proposal Targets SIM Swapping, Port-Out Fraud
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is asking for feedback on new proposed rules to crack down on SIM swapping and number port-out fraud[…]
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Uniting the industry to solve friendly fraud/first-party misuse
Ahead of First-Party Misuse / Friendly Fraud Summit, Julie Fergerson, MRC's CEO, gives an in-depth look into friendly fraud by revealing how big is t[…]
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Shopify Launches Global ERP Merchant Program
Multinational eCommerce company Shopify is partnering with a series of enterprise resource planning (ERP) providers to provide direct integrations in[…]
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Veem partners Visa on domestic and cross-border payments
Source: VeemVeem, the global payment network for small-to-midsize businesses, today announced a collaboration with Visa, the world's leader in digita[…]
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In Conversation With IDnow's Basil Macklai
As cases of identity theft and fraud skyrocket worldwide, the importance of knowing exactly who your customer is has never been greater. In this week[…]
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Verizon-owned cell network Visible confirms hackers accessed user accounts
Verizon-owned Visible, a budget cellular carrier owned by Verizon, has confirmed that hackers accessed and charged user accounts. The incident, first[…]
