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From 2017-2019, Congress appropriated approximately $39.5 billion in "Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery" funds. These funds may be...
Coby Montoya, fraud-fighting and authentication strategist With consumers relying more heavily on e-commerce during the pandemic and beyond, leveraging behavioral biometrics for authentication is becoming an effective strategy, says Coby Montoya, a fraud-fighting and authentication strategist at a financial company. “I do not necessarily need to understand the personal identifiable information from a person to authenticate him. I don’t need a person to prove he is what he is by providing his PII. Instead, a better approach is to look at how one behaves and interacts,” Montoya says. I...
IRS Sharpens Cryptocurrency Investigation Skills May 20, 2021 Compliance May 3, 2021 May 5, 2021 Compliance Twitter Jarod Koopman, director, IRS Criminal Investigation Division The Internal Revenue Service is sharpening its expertise in cryptocurrencies to help prevent their use for tax evasion and money laundering, says Jarod Koopman, director of the IRS Criminal Investigation Division. That has come, in part, by partnering with companies that have developed techniques and technologies for tracing blockchain transactions, he says. Meanwhile, the agency's expertise in cryptocurrency is being...
Get Permission The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is investigating whether five government agencies may have been breached when attackers exploited vulnerabilities in Pulse Connect Secure VPN products, according to a senior agency official. Earlier this month, researchers at the security firm FireEye published a report about attack groups attempting to exploit four Pulse Connect Secure vulnerabilities, including a zero-day flaw discovered in April that's now tracked as CVE-2021-22893. Ivanti, the parent company of Pulse Secure, has issued a mitigation fix for the zero-day v...
Get Permission A coalition of government agencies and security firms has released a framework for how to disrupt ransomware attacks that calls for expanded regulation of the global cryptocurrency market to better track the virtual coins paid to cybercriminals during extortion schemes. On Thursday, the Institute for Security and Technology's Ransomware Task Force published the framework, which features 48 proposals. It calls for a coordinated, international diplomatic and law enforcement effort to combat these cyberthreats - for example, by discouraging nation-states from harboring cybercrim...