While fraud and security pros were packing shades and sunscreen for some 4th of July holiday fun, fraudsters were quietly preparing and waiting for an entirely different kind of burn. Leading up to this year’s July 4th festivities, bad actors were ready and waiting to target U.S. banks, eCommerce entities, major retailers, and others with massive fraud attacks. While people were off and partying, commencing at 3 pm Eastern on July 3rd, NuData Security experts observed, tracked, and thwarted a
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Phony sites are everywhere waiting for you to take the bait. Learn how to spot them on the go. We are sure you already know what you’ll buy on Amazon Prime Day – a bi-annual event that has us all checking our friends and family gift lists, pantries, and of course our own personal wish lists. As everyone preps for this year’s July 16-17 Amazon Prime Day, let’s keep our anti-fraud senses on alert, especially on mobile. 40% of all 
Cybersecurity journalists have had a busy first half of 2018 with the stream of data breaches, topped by last week’s Exactis mass-data exposure. But, is the landscape as bleak as it looks? You probably don’t need to be following the news to know that your data may have been breached in the last few years. In the last 18 months alone, millions of users have had all or part of their personal and financial information exposed, sold, and traded somewhere 
What it’s like to attend the Future Stars of Tech Awards By: Hanhan Wu, Data Scientist at NuData Security Last week, I had the amazing opportunity to travel to London for the Future Stars of Tech Awards, a set of awards given to the next generation of technology female leadership, hosted by Information Age Magazine. Overall, the experience really changed my view on what it is like to work in technology as a woman and made me appreciate the 
Med Associates, the latest to be added to the long list of breached healthcare institutions in 2018, with 270,000 records exposed. We are only halfway through 2018 and there has already been a stream of hacks, data breaches and mass exposure of highly sensitive data such as DNA and patient records. Med Associates, an Albany-based firm, is the latest victim with 270,000 patient records accessed by black-hat hackers. They are not alone, though, other providers such as the St. Peter’s