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JUNE 15, 2023

Business email compromise (BEC) attacks can be a major risk to businesses’ finances and reputations. Let’s look at what business email compromise attacks are and explore some of the many ways you can combat them. What Is a Business Email Compromise Attack? Reported losses in 2020 exceeded $4.2

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Senior citizens are the demographic group most vulnerable to identity fraud, as they are often not as digitally savvy as their younger counterparts nor as adept in online security best practices. There were 223,163 cases of identity theft that year across all generations, with 42 percent of them consisting of bank and credit card fraud.

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MAY 1, 2017

Phishing attacks can happen to even the most vigilant among us. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced plans to charge a man allegedly responsible for an $100 million business email compromise scam. It doesn’t matter where or who you are. At the end of March , the U.S. In a statement, Google confirmed that it had been a target.

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JANUARY 30, 2017

The latest report from the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) and CyberScout finds a worrying trend: 2016 was a record year for data breaches, with businesses emerging as the largest target for hackers by far. This week’s data digest is all about, well, data. 1,093 data breaches hit entities in the U.S.

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MAY 2, 2017

In other news of note from the Facebook space, it recently came to light that the social media giant, along with Google, were the heretofore unnamed victims of a combined $100 million phishing attack earlier this year. At the end of March , the U.S. The corporate victims, now known to be Facebook and Google, weren’t named at the time.

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JANUARY 23, 2017

Its latest analysis, released in conjunction with the Identity Theft Resource Center, found an all-time-high number of data breaches, with 1,093 incidents recorded in 2016. But researchers questioned whether the increase is due to more breaches or simply more publicly available data on the topic.

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