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Don’t Bite The Phish Hook
Security & Fraud // August 23, 2017

You there, corporate decision-maker. Are you ready to respond to a cyber threat? How confident do you feel in your ability to handle and mitigate the situation? If the answer is “not very,” you’re in good company. Recent research by San Francisco-based cyber security company...

Researchers Follow Money To Cut Profits Of Cyber Crime Service vDOS
Security & Fraud // June 07, 2017

In the fight against cyber crime services, otherwise known as booters or stressers, it pays to follow the money. That’s according to KrebsoOnSecurity, which, citing a new academic report, reported on how academic researchers and PayPal teamed up to identify and shut down the accounts...

MoneyGram CIO Talks Data Security
Safety and Security // April 24, 2017

  While there aren’t many good things one can say about cybercriminals and the chaos they’ve created, in at least one sense you kind of have to hand it to them — they’re pretty clever. “You work hard to lock up your front door against them,” Karen...

Interviews & Exclusives
MoneyGram CIO Talks Data Security

April 24, 2017
  While there aren’t many good things one can say about cybercriminals and the chaos they’ve created, in at least one sense you kind of have to hand it to them — they’re pretty clever. “You work hard to lock up your front door against them,” Karen Webster noted in a recent Topic TBD conversation with MoneyGram’s […]

Quick Reads
NYPD Tests ‘Skim Reaper’ To Stop ATM Tampering

May 11, 2018
The NYPD is fighting back against ATM tampering with a device called the “Skim Reaper.” According to CBS News in New York, the device can detect if an ATM or gas pump has been compromised. Credit card skimmers steal more than $1 billion from U.S. customers each year, according to the Secret Service. For its […]

Researchers Follow Money To Cut Profits Of Cyber Crime Service vDOS

June 07, 2017
In the fight against cyber crime services, otherwise known as booters or stressers, it pays to follow the money. That’s according to KrebsoOnSecurity, which, citing a new academic report, reported...