by CDO Review Staff | Jul 22, 2019 | Digital Forensics, Fraud
The Securities and Exchange Commission has imposed a $50 million fine on accounting firm KPMG after its auditors were found to have used stolen data and cheated in training exams. Katanga Johnson filed this report for Reuters: KPMG admitted to the SEC’s allegations...
by CDO Review Staff | Jul 22, 2019 | Digital Forensics
Paypal has struggled to contain fraud since the day the company was born. Operating a payments processing system online made it a natural target of hackers and conmen. Paypal fought back by investing heavily in big data technology for fraud protection. The company...
by CDO Review Staff | Jul 22, 2019 | Digital Forensics, Fraud
Recent research from Mastercard company Vocalink has confirmed that businesses that underinvest in fraud prevention and detection are losing money at the till. The advent of real-time transactions means that today’s firms must deploy intelligently applied machine...
by CDO Review Staff | Jul 22, 2019 | Digital Forensics, Fraud
Mastercard senior vice president Ramanthan reckons that the use of AI-powered tools prevented about $52 billion in fraudulent credit card transactions in 2018-19. Ramanathan added that Mastercard still sees more than three fraud attempts per second, which is prompting...
by CDO Review Staff | Jul 22, 2019 | Digital Forensics, Fraud
Fraudsters are quick to take advantage of any flaw in technology or process. This has made online financial transactions vulnerable as the financial services industry struggles with the pace of digital change. Humans alone cannot keep up with the deluge of data...
by CDO Review Staff | May 7, 2019 | Digital Forensics
The lack of reliability testing is casting a shadow over the entire field of digital forensics. Digital forensics is very reliant on software tools which often act like blackboxes impervious to verification. So how do we know that the software’s interpretation of the...