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A LastPass employee was targeted by a deepfake audio call earlier this week that impersonated LastPass CEO Karim Toubba, but because it was done via WhatsApp and not a part of normal business communications, the employee did not fall for the scam. On the day of the incident, Mike Kosak, senior p...

How secure are voice verification systems that are widely used by financial institutions, healthcare and dozens of other consumer accounts? Can they be trusted when it comes to protecting sensitive data? Those questions were posed recently when one real-world test showed how artificial intelligence...

Scammers have a powerful new weapon to wield this Valentine's Day when drafting love letters to whisper sweet nothings at scale: artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT. The tactic of using fake online identities to gain victims' affection and trust for financial gain is known as romance scams. ...

Making the transition from a password-based authentication system to a passwordless one isn't a quick process. There are several steps your organization must take to complete the journey. Yet in the end, the efforts will be worthwhile, because you will have happier customers, happier employees and ...

Experian has been sued in a class action lawsuit following the consumer credit bureau's failure to ensure sufficient protections against consumer account hijacking, according to KrebsOnSecurity. The lawsuit noted that various existing Experian accounts had been reported by KrebsOnSecurity in July t...

Fast Identity Online (FIDO) outlines secure authentication protocols that are available to all. Now, Microsoft, Google and Apple are doubling down on passkeys to support FIDO Alliance. Their goal is to normalize passwordless authentication and eliminate passwords from the user authentication equati...

Cybersecurity concerns are all-too-often focused on digital platforms: online, mobile and even wearable devices. However, old-fashioned voice connections to financial institutions are increasingly being used by bad actors for nefarious gain, according to a recent report from Pindrop. Indeed, w...

As financial fraud continues to climb, entering the third year of this brave new world of on-again, off-again remote work and heightened dependence on digital financial services, experts say that this year will force the industry to change its approach on many security fronts, especially authenti...

Intuit, the company behind tax preparation software TurboTax, said users' accounts may have been accessed by an unauthorized party. Threat actors used usernames and password combinations obtained from a non-Intuit source after an undisclosed number of TurboTax accounts were breached in a credent...

Attorneys general from 31 states have asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to update its Identity Theft Rules. Noting the proliferation of identity theft and consumers’ inability to divine how information stolen from breaches is being used, the AGs said that the rules – also known as the Red...