Fraud prevention

22 January, 2016

Biometrics: Physical attributes vs. behavioural patterns – the privacy debate

Account takeovers are increasingly affecting a growing population of online user accounts due to a confluence of threats, such as weak consumer password practices, frequent mass data breaches and brute force attacks against web properties. The scope, scale and frequency of these online attacks against user accounts has demonstrated time and again that companies can no longer rely upon authentication methods based on static elements that can and will be stolen, traded and sold to the highest bidder in underground markets. (more…)

22 January, 2016

AppRiver year-end Global Security Report assesses the biggest cybersecurity threats and protective legislation

AppRiver, LLC, has released its year-end Global Security Report, a detailed summary and analysis of the malware and spam trends of 2015. (more…)

21 January, 2016

Neural Technologies ranks in Chartis RiskTech Top 100 for sixth year

Neural Technologies has again been ranked in the Chartis RiskTech 100. The report consolidates the individual results of a survey of hundreds of risk technology buyers and end users to produce its top 100 ranking. (more…)

19 January, 2016

Kount invites business to take part in 2016 Mobile Payments and Fraud Survey

Kount is inviting business to take part in its 2016 Mobile Fraud Survey. (more…)

15 January, 2016

Are service providers taking fraud and revenue leakage more seriously today?

The most common causes of revenue loss among communication service providers (CSPs) globally are poor processes and procedures. This is one of the conclusions of new fraud and revenue leakage research, conducted for Neural Technologies. So far, so normal, but …
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12 January, 2016

Global survey shows comms service providers losing 13.1% of revenues to leakage and fraud

Revenue losses and fraud may be higher on the agenda for communication service providers (CSPs) following independent research released by Neural Technologies. A new global survey of 113 CSPs has found that these losses have now reached 13.1% of gross revenues. (more…)

05 January, 2016

Telcos face US$300bn global loss from uncollected revenue and fraud in 2016

Neural Technologies has announced the results of its Telecoms Risk Management Global Survey 2016. Telecoms operators face an estimated global average loss of 13.1% or US$294 billion* resulting from uncollected revenue and fraud. (more…)

16 December, 2015

Revector appoints CCO and CFO, expands into Asia

Mobile anti-fraud and revenue protection company Revector has appointed two c-level executives to strengthen its management team as the company expands into the Asia-Pacific region. (more…)

26 November, 2015

Mobile wallets: The new fraud frontier

Mobile wallets are enjoying increasing adoption. Payments made via mobile devices in the United States are expected to total $90 billion by 2017, a big jump from the $12.8 billion spent in 2012, according to Forrester Research. (more…)

13 November, 2015

TeleSign announces partnership with Swisscom

TeleSign, has announced an agreement with Swisscom, which will lead to the development and delivery of new identity services to enable greater online account security, verify financial and ecommerce transactions, and prevent fraud for customers. (more…)