Identity theft

'What The Fraud?': Sumsub Launches Podcast to Discuss Latest Fraud Threats and Verification Solutions

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Wednesday, February 28, 2024

LONDON, Feb. 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Sumsub, a global verification platform securing the whole user journey, today announces the launch of its own podcast, called 'What The Fraud?'. Episodes will feature guest experts from diverse industries including AI, cybersecurity, fintech, crypto, and iGaming. The conversations will focus on how digital fraud impacts businesses, which challenges tech companies face amid rapid AI developments, and what they can do to prevent even the most advanced fraud.

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  • ', hosted by Thomas Taraniuk, Head of Partnerships UK at Sumsub
    LONDON, Feb. 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Sumsub , a global verification platform securing the whole user journey, today announces the launch of its own podcast, called ' What The Fraud?
  • The conversations will focus on how digital fraud impacts businesses, which challenges tech companies face amid rapid AI developments, and what they can do to prevent even the most advanced fraud.
  • podcast was created to address this very issue: the dangers digital fraud poses to people and companies, and how to fight it effectively.
  • podcast by Sumsub, visit your favorite podcast platform or go to: https://sumsub.com/podcast/

'What The Fraud?': Sumsub Launches Podcast to Discuss Latest Fraud Threats and Verification Solutions

Retrieved on: 
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

LONDON, Feb. 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Sumsub, a global verification platform securing the whole user journey, today announces the launch of its own podcast, called 'What The Fraud?'. Episodes will feature guest experts from diverse industries including AI, cybersecurity, fintech, crypto, and iGaming. The conversations will focus on how digital fraud impacts businesses, which challenges tech companies face amid rapid AI developments, and what they can do to prevent even the most advanced fraud.

Key Points: 
  • ', hosted by Thomas Taraniuk, Head of Partnerships UK at Sumsub
    LONDON, Feb. 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Sumsub , a global verification platform securing the whole user journey, today announces the launch of its own podcast, called ' What The Fraud?
  • The conversations will focus on how digital fraud impacts businesses, which challenges tech companies face amid rapid AI developments, and what they can do to prevent even the most advanced fraud.
  • podcast was created to address this very issue: the dangers digital fraud poses to people and companies, and how to fight it effectively.
  • podcast by Sumsub, visit your favorite podcast platform or go to: https://sumsub.com/podcast/

AU10TIX KYB Rapidly Validates Businesses and Owners In One Unified Flow

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Tuesday, February 27, 2024

TEL AVIV, Israel, Feb. 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ --  AU10TIX, a global technology leader in identity verification and management, today launched an innovative Know Your Business (KYB) solution that enables companies to know exactly who they are doing business with and avoid potential financial and reputational losses. By combining KYB with Know Your Customer (KYC) processes, the offering addresses every KYB business need, from sole traders to corporates, including KYC for UBOs and associated entities.

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  • By combining KYB with Know Your Customer (KYC) processes, the offering addresses every KYB business need, from sole traders to corporates, including KYC for UBOs and associated entities.
  • Increasingly rigorous regulatory demands are forcing businesses across all sectors to collect and analyze more data about the identities of their partners and vendors.
  • Companies must also ensure that they are not working with unscrupulous businesses involved in identity theft, fraud, money laundering, terrorist financing or other crimes.
  • AU10TIX's unified KYB and KYC solution provides a comprehensive check against 200+ jurisdictions and over 1000 government registries in one automated workflow.

Global Digital Identity Verification Market Report 2023-2028 with Competitor Leaderboard of the Top 20 Providers

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Tuesday, February 27, 2024

The new Digital Identity Verification report presents an independent analysis of the landscape and future development of this important market.

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  • The new Digital Identity Verification report presents an independent analysis of the landscape and future development of this important market.
  • The number of digital identity verification checks will surpass 70 billion in 2024; growing 16% on the previous year's number of 61 billion.
  • Banking will see the largest volume of checks, with 37 billion in 2024; equating to 53% of the global identity verification market.
  • The key market trends are also analysed, making this section a must-read for digital identity verification providers, and for businesses requiring the checks.

Global Prepaid Card Market Trends, Opportunities, & Forecasts, 2029F: Tap, Pay, Go Fueled by Integration with Mobile Wallets, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Sustainability and ESG Principles

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Friday, February 23, 2024

Furthermore, because prepaid cards let recipients choose how to utilise the money, they're widely employed as employee incentives and gift cards.

Key Points: 
  • Furthermore, because prepaid cards let recipients choose how to utilise the money, they're widely employed as employee incentives and gift cards.
  • The prepaid card market is driven by multiple strong variables that impact its dynamics.
  • Personalization has become a key trend in the prepaid card market, catering to the diverse preferences and lifestyles of users.
  • Company Profiles: Detailed analysis of the major companies present in the global Prepaid Card Market.

Console & Associates, P.C.: American Vision Partners Reports Data Breach Exposing SSNs and Medical Information of 2.3 Million

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Wednesday, February 21, 2024

d/b/a/ American Vision Partners ("American Vision Partners'' or "MMRG").

Key Points: 
  • d/b/a/ American Vision Partners ("American Vision Partners'' or "MMRG").
  • However, victims of the breach may not be familiar with the name American Vision Partners because it works with ophthalmology practices in a behind-the-scenes role.
  • Thus, it's possible American Vision Partners has information about patients who were entirely unaware that was the case.
  • American Vision Partners explained that the incident stemmed from a cybersecurity incident that the company first discovered on November 14, 2023.

Motive Files Lawsuit Against Samsara to Protect Innovation and Fair Competition

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Thursday, February 15, 2024

Motive Technologies, Inc. (“Motive”), the only AI-powered Integrated Operations Platform for the physical economy, today filed a lawsuit against Samsara Inc. (“Samsara”) (NYSE: IOT) to protect innovation and fair competition for the benefit and safety of customers.

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  • Motive Technologies, Inc. (“Motive”), the only AI-powered Integrated Operations Platform for the physical economy, today filed a lawsuit against Samsara Inc. (“Samsara”) (NYSE: IOT) to protect innovation and fair competition for the benefit and safety of customers.
  • Despite its efforts, Samsara has failed to develop competitive AI technology and has been losing customers, particularly large Enterprise accounts, to Motive.
  • Rather than develop better products, Samsara has resorted to waging a meritless legal battle and associated marketing campaign against Motive in an underhanded attempt to limit competition and stifle innovation.
  • With today’s filing, Motive seeks to set the record straight and put an end to Samsara’s unlawful and anticompetitive behavior.

Frost & Sullivan Awards Regula: Excellence in Best Practices, 2024 Global Enabling Technology Leader

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Thursday, February 15, 2024

Frost & Sullivan recognizes companies with Best Practices Awards in various categories for outstanding efforts to inspire growth in their industries.

Key Points: 
  • Frost & Sullivan recognizes companies with Best Practices Awards in various categories for outstanding efforts to inspire growth in their industries.
  • As for the Enabling Technology Leadership Award in the identity verification (IDV) industry, Frost & Sullivan applies a rigorous analytical process to assess multiple nominees.
  • Frost & Sullivan points out that Regula excels in many of the criteria in the IDV solutions space.
  • To learn more about the 2024 Frost & Sullivan Global Enabling Technology Leadership Award in the identity verification solutions industry, please read the report .

Several companies are testing brain implants – why is there so much attention swirling around Neuralink? Two professors unpack the ethical issues

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Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Academic and commercial groups are testing “brain-computer interface” devices to enable people with disabilities to function more independently.

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  • Academic and commercial groups are testing “brain-computer interface” devices to enable people with disabilities to function more independently.
  • In January 2024, Musk announced that Neuralink implanted its first chip in a human subject’s brain.

How does a brain chip work?

  • Subjects in the company’s PRIME study – short for Precise Robotically Implanted Brain-Computer Interface – undergo surgery to place the device in a part of the brain that controls movement.
  • The chip records and processes the brain’s electrical activity, then transmits this data to an external device, such as a phone or computer.

A few companies are testing BCIs. What’s different about Neuralink?


Noninvasive devices positioned on the outside of a person’s head have been used in clinical trials for a long time, but they have not received approval from the Food and Drug Administration for commercial development.
There are other brain-computer devices, like Neuralink’s, that are fully implanted and wireless. However, the N1 implant combines more technologies in a single device: It can target individual neurons, record from thousands of sites in the brain and recharge its small battery wirelessly. These are important advances that could produce better outcomes.

Why is Neuralink drawing criticism?

  • Musk announced the company’s first human trial on his social media platform, X – formerly Twitter – in January 2024.
  • Neuralink did not register at ClinicalTrials.gov, as is customary, and required by some academic journals.
  • Neuralink, on the other hand, embodies a private equity model, which is becoming more common in science.
  • However, the secretary did note an “adverse surgical event” in 2019 that Neuralink had self-reported.
  • In a separate incident also reported by Reuters, the Department of Transportation fined Neuralink for violating rules about transporting hazardous materials, including a flammable liquid.

What other ethical issues does Neuralink’s trial raise?

  • In particular, it helps people recover a sense of their own agency or autonomy – one of the key tenets of medical ethics.
  • With BCIs, scientists and ethicists are particularly concerned about the potential for identity theft, password hacking and blackmail.
  • Given how the devices access users’ thoughts, there is also the possibility that their autonomy could be manipulated by third parties.

What’s next?

  • Musk has said his ultimate goal for BCIs, however, is to help humanity – including healthy people – “keep pace” with artificial intelligence.
  • Some types of supercharged brain-computer synthesis could exacerbate social inequalities if only wealthy citizens have access to enhancements.
  • For patients whose access to a device is tied to a research study, the prospect of losing access after the study ends can be devastating.


The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

Sekur Private Data Ltd. Launches Small Business Solutions Marketing Efforts Amid Increased Attacks on SMBs in the USA During Election Year

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Wednesday, February 14, 2024

NEW YORK, NY and TORONTO, Ontario, Feb. 14, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via NewMediaWire – Sekur Private Data Ltd. (CSE:SKUR) (OTCQB:SWISF) (FRA:GDT0) (“Sekur” or the “Company”), a leading Swiss hosted secure and private communications platform, is pleased to announce that it has launched its Sekur SMB Privacy and Security solutions of privacy communications solutions amid increased cyber attacks and BEC attacks on small businesses in the USA during the presidential election year.  

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  • Sekur has launched its marketing of SMB solutions in the USA through online marketing and plans to launch a series of channel marketing programs in the coming weeks, to get Sekur and its anti-BEC attack solutions to small businesses in the USA.
  • In 2021 alone there were 20,000 BEC attacks reported to the FBI in the USA.
  • The Sekur number is the contact ID a user would disclose in order for other Sekur users to be added.
  • Sekur’s Data privacy solutions are all hosted in Switzerland, protecting users’ data from any outside data intrusion requests.