vendor email compromise

Is Your Remote Team Sufficiently Cyber-Security Savvy?

Someone is out to get you. Hackers are working full time. And with your team working from home now, you face greater risk. Cyber-criminals are constantly working to find soft spots or weak links in your organization to exploit. And hackers study human behavior and are good at manipulation. When everyone first started working from Is Your Remote Team Sufficiently Cyber-Security Savvy?

Quarantine Won’t Flatten Fraud

With all our attention consumed by the shapeshifting new normal, you probably want to hear that payment fraudsters have taken a holiday. But they haven’t. A new AFP survey on payment fraud shows 80 percent of organizations experienced attempted or actual payment fraud last year. Payment fraud remains at a high level, having jumped up Quarantine Won’t Flatten Fraud

Risky Business: Vendor Data via Email

How do you collect your vendors’ W-9 information? What about bank information for ACH payments? Here is an instruction that one organization includes on its ACH Enrollment Form on which the vendor is asked for their bank account information: “Please email the completed form along with a copy of a VOIDED CHECK to: … ” Risky Business: Vendor Data via Email