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MAY 21, 2018

Against the backdrop of social media controversy — remember Facebook , of course, and 87 million users’ data exposed to Cambridge Analytica — oversight is tightening in Europe. We do not accept that the internet is some sort of ‘Wild West’ where no moral values can apply.”. Also, in the U.K., The news came last week that the U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2018

Despite Facebook’s data scandal with Cambridge Analytica, the number of people that are using social media platforms increased by more than 100 million during the first quarter of 2018. billion people around the globe using social media. TheNextWeb reported Facebook has 3.2

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Perficient

JUNE 7, 2023

On May 31, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) reported to the public what many banks already knew and had been experiencing for the past year – that deposits are declining in the American banking sector. Positives (Or Less Negative Than Before) Unrealized losses on held-to-maturity securities totaled $284.0

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

Criminals seeking to exploit unmet demand for the COVID-19 vaccine are selling doses – many presumably fake – on the "dark web," the portion of the internet dominated by merchants who operate beyond easy reach of law enforcement agencies, the Financial Times reported on Friday (Dec.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It’s the time of the year when we celebrate Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a global initiative to raise awareness and educate people about the importance of staying safe and secure online. Cybersecurity Awareness Month is now in its 20th year and has a new enduring theme: Secure Our World. Stay up to date with cybersecurity threats.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Security/Biometric Payments With the widespread popularity of digital payments continuing to grow, security remains at the forefront of concern for payment companies and their vendor partners. To use this offering, cardholders enrolled a fingerprint to have securely stored on their card.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2017

This week, the two countries were the only markets that landed on the B2B venture capital board, with funding landing at SaaS, Big Data and procurement startups across a range of industries, from corporate social media management to marijuana procurement. PYMNTS breaks down the $24 million in venture capital raised. Back in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2018

India is mulling the idea of requesting eCommerce and social media companies to only store customer data locally, which could impact the likes of Amazon and Facebook and its WhatsApp messaging service in the country. According to a report in Reuters , the plan was laid out in an updated Draft National Policy.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2020

11), National Public Radio (NPR) reported, citing a source. NPR reported ByteDance , TikTok’s parent company, will argue Trump’s far-reaching action is unconstitutional because it failed to give the company a chance to respond. It also alleges that the administration’s national security justification for the order is untrue. “It’s

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

In the February Digital Identity Tracker , PYMNTS explores the latest developments in the world of digital IDs, including digital driver’s license initiatives around the country, biometric solutions for credit cards and the growing danger of fake profiles on social media. Deep Dive: How Fake Profiles Endanger Social Media Networks.

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

users into new agreements with its corporate headquarters in California, effectively circumventing the European Union’s strict privacy laws, according to an exclusive report by the Reuters news service. 15) rolled out a proposal for tough new regulations for digital services that cover online marketplaces, social media and other platforms.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Facebook will increase its security offerings, especially for high-profile users, the social media giant announced Tuesday (Dec. The company will support the use of security keys on mobile devices so anyone logging into an account will need more than just a password, a Facebook official told PYMNTS.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

Technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and biometrics are changing the digital security landscape, and a recent study found that social media networks have become a more popular way for hackers to target new victims. 22 billion: Projected over-the-top (OTT) media revenue for 2019.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2020

Secure payments provider PCI Pal launched a new digital service on Tuesday (Jan. 28) that will let organizations offer ultra-secure payments across a multitude of channels, from social media to email and everything in between. Using the service, customers will be able to pay securely through any channel.

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BankInovation

AUGUST 13, 2024

British challenger bank Monzo reported an outage today that halted some card payments and outbound bank transfers. In response to the outage, which the bank attributed to a “technical issue,” Monzo moved to its backup system to get operations back up and running, Monzo said on social media platform X today.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In a bit of high-tech saber-rattling, Facebook is threatening to pull the plug on its social media platform in the European Union if a controversial decision by Irish regulators is allowed to stand. That could prove to be “immensely complicated,” the Times reported, and likely highly expensive. “A according to Metro.

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Current

AUGUST 5, 2020

Our members' privacy and security is extremely important to us and we want to be sure all our members keep their accounts safe from scammers, who may impersonate Current on social media or any other platform. Please know we are reporting all of these to the various social media platforms to have them removed.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2021

Squarespace announced that it had applied for a confidential registration to go public with the Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC), a release says. The brief press release doesn't constitute an offer to sell and doesn't mean there's any offer to buy securities on the table.

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William Mills

JUNE 8, 2017

In just a short decade, social media has grown from a couple of platforms connecting music fans and college students to the de facto channel of communication for millions of people every day. How pervasive has social media become? Social Media is for Building Relationships, Not Spamming Ideas.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2019

A $5 million gift from Craiglist’s Craig Newmark Philanthropies will support a new program, led by former Facebook security expert Alex Stamos. The project will battle online abuses and misuses on the platform such as disinformation and election interference, Reuters reported on Friday (July 26).

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 17, 2017

According to a report by DataVisor– a big data security analytics provider– fraudsters are most active on social media platforms (no surprise there), and have to launch thousands of attacks on the platform in order to make a […].

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2020

A database of nearly a quarter-million YouTube, Instagram and TikTok public profiles that was held by a now-shuttered company called Deep Social has made its way onto the Dark Web, The Next Web reported on Thursday (Aug. ” Deep Social provided, among other things, social media data. A Wednesday (Aug.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Facebook, the leading social media company, is facing pressure after The New York Times issued a damaging report, with the stock falling close to 5 percent during intraday trading Monday (Nov. consulting firm, to create opposition research on critics of the company.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2018

According to a report in Reuters , citing a blog post by Twitter , the social media company said it discovered the traffic to a customer support forum while looking into a security hole that makes user data, such as phone country codes, accessible to hackers. Twitter said it fixed that security vulnerability on Nov.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Social Security Administration, for example, requires recipients using its website to provide unique eight-digit codes sent via text to their smartphones in addition to their usernames and passwords when they sign up or log in. . It also outlines some of the frictions entities face when doing so. .

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2019

Twitter announced an update to its abuse reporting functions that will allow its users to specify personal information issues. “We We want to move faster in reviewing reported Tweets that share personal information. Twitter isn’t the only social media site looking to boost its privacy measures.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2019

Instagram is inviting a group of security researchers known as white hat hackers to stress-test its Checkout feature before it launches outside the United States. While Instagram has assured users that Checkout payments are secure, adding that it never shares payment information with sellers and keeps financial information on secured servers.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

However, 8 percent of Cyber Monday visits did originate from social media, an increase of 17.5 It comes from WBR Insights , which credits customer engagement via social media. Brand advertisers, it says, need to justify social media ROI. percent from the prior year. We’ve identified three.

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Abrigo

JANUARY 4, 2023

Of that group of users, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reports that since the beginning of 2021 through the first quarter of 2022, more than 46,000 people have reported losing over $1 billion in crypto scams. That's one out of every four dollars reported lost—more than the amount lost through any other payment method.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2019

Snap , the money-losing parent company of Snapchat, is issuing $1 billion in convertible debt for working capital and future acquisitions, CNBC reported Tuesday (Aug. The social media platform is also courting big pharma companies to advertise on Snapchat, reportedly pitching itself as a friendlier alternative to Twitter and Facebook.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2020

A 14-page report Facebook lawyers prepared in advance of a potential antitrust lawsuit from the government found such action would hurt users, be contrary to established law and cost billions of dollars, WSJ reported after seeing the document. It was not a guarantee that Instagram was going to succeed," Zuckerberg said. "In

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2019

The latest company to be affected may be food delivery app Deliveroo, according to a report in the Financial Times. data protection watchdog is looking into the company after it reported “limited fraudulent activity” on some customers’ accounts. In 2016, customers took to social media to complain about a similar thing.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The report, released Tuesday (Nov. The report comes at a time when innovation — and data — are building a new world of digital payments and commerce. It’s not just data and data analysis that are crucial to innovation, according to the Mastercard report. 2020 Innovation Sparks. A sense of adventure also matters.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2019

You can be sure that one area of regression involves social media. New research, in fact, supports that idea — specifically, the high value that consumers attach to Facebook , and the high cost it would take to make them leave the social media platform. But that doesn’t mean consumers plan to leave Facebook anytime soon.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

A new report by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has revealed that millennials are 25 percent more likely to report losing money to fraud than consumers ages 40 and over. Online shopping fraud reports include complaints about items that are never delivered or are not as they were advertised.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

users to report suspicious ads that they suspect of being scams. The feature can be accessed by clicking the three dots in the top right corner of the Facebook ad, selecting “Report ad,” choosing “Misleading or scam ad” and then “Send a detailed scam report,” Financial Times reports. Facebook has launched a tool for U.K.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2020

A 2018 survey found that 50 percent of IT professionals labeled security among the most-pressing issues affecting their API strategies, and API-related services are expected to become those hackers most frequently attack by 2022. . Companies, therefore, must work to identify and track APIs’ use and secure them against key threats.

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