China continues Pig-Butchering Crack-down

China continues Pig-Butchering Crack-down

One of my techniques for keeping current on Cybercrime trends is having an "interesting" collection of international news ticklers. This story came to me via X:CyberScamMonitor via a QQ account called "onCambodia." ...

Coin Flips Are Biased

Experimental result: Many people have flipped coins but few have stopped to ponder the statistical and physical intricacies of the process. In a preregistered study we collected 350,757 coin flips to test ...
Top takeaways from MPE Berlin 2023

Top takeaways from MPE Berlin 2023

Discover insights and key takeaways from MPE Berlin 2023, including emerging fraud trends and the future of payments. The post Top takeaways from MPE Berlin 2023 appeared first on Sift Blog ...

On the Randomness of Automatic Card Shufflers

Many years ago, Matt Blaze and I talked about getting our hands on a casino-grade automatic shuffler and looking for vulnerabilities. We never did it—I remember that we didn’t even try very ...
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Gambling, Social Media, and 10 Years of Streaming the ‘Big Game’

Thanks to the unique perspectives we have via the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform, we're able to observe massive amounts of web traffic and data that provide insights across the various industries Akamai ...
Gambling Firm Anticipates Spending up to $100 Million in Recovery from Cyber Incident

Gambling Firm Anticipates Spending up to $100 Million in Recovery from Cyber Incident

SBTech, a provider of interactive sports betting solutions and services, has set aside up to $100 million to fix a mess left when a cybersecurity incident hit right in the midst of ...
New Phishing Scam Lures iPhone Owners with Romantic Chat, Gambling, ‘Free’ VPN

New Phishing Scam Lures iPhone Owners with Romantic Chat, Gambling, ‘Free’ VPN

Bitdefender this week has detected a new phishing campaign targeting iPhone owners with a range of scams aiming to defraud unsuspecting victims. First things first. If you receive the email pictured below, ...
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Report Finds Gaming Sites Battling Sophisticated Fraud Schemes

Turns out gaming sites have a cybersecurity problem that goes way beyond the usual run-of-the-mill cyberattack. A report published by iovation, a unit of TransUnion that provides multifactor authentication tools and services ...
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Cheating at Professional Poker

| | cheating, gambling
Interesting story about someone who is almost certainly cheating at professional poker. But then I start to see things that seem so obvious, but I wonder whether they aren't just paranoia after ...
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Can you win the lottery too many times?

| | gambling, Lottery, Randomness
Last year I posted on The Fabled 25 Sigma Event, referring to a quote from David Viniar, then CFO of Goldman Sachs, who was attempting to describe the magnitude of the movements ...