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USA Today
13-07-2025
- Business
- USA Today
Digital Watchdog Launches New myDW Cloud Services
DW's new health monitoring solution is a cloud-centric service that empowers system owners to proactively monitor the health of their systems and keep them performing at their best. Jul. 13, 2025 / PRZen / CERRITOS, Calif. — Digital Watchdog (DW), the industry leader in digital recorders, surveillance cameras, perimeter protection devices, system peripherals and related management software, is proud to launch its new myDW cloud-centric health monitoring services. myDW provides Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and their customers with tools to proactively monitor their DW surveillance solutions, prevent unnecessary maintenance and downtime, and maximize the actionable data they get from their systems. myDW is a cloud-centric health monitoring solution designed to maximize the performance of surveillance systems, delivering actionable alerts and reports, event sharing and management tools that transform any system into a smart, proactive and responsive solution. myDW gives customers peace of mind that their surveillance is always working for them. 'To best meet the ongoing needs of end user customers, dealers can use the myDW platform to monitor and maintain the DW systems they install, transitioning their relationship to that of a Managed Service Provider,' said Mark Espenschied, Director of Marketing, DW. 'Utilizing custom reports and advanced features to identify changes in camera views and system performance that trigger automated alerts, myDW also makes it easy for users to share video clips of incidents by storing them in the cloud and sending a URL to coworkers and law enforcement personnel.' Product features include: Premium health monitoring service for all DW systems in a single location Gain valuable performance data on your systems and manage them more efficiently Reduce IT workload with simplified system management and real-time alerts Seamless management scalability from 1 to unlimited systems Available on any web browser and mobile app using the same single sign-on Centralized user management Streamline incident management with instant alerts and reports, and assign users to address events quickly. Video sharing with users inside and outside the organization for quick action on alerts CVV™ (Camera View Verification) PathFinder™ Peer-to-Peer (P2P) remote connection Roaming Profiles Cybersecurity with multi-factor authentication Hardware inventory, HDD health reports and monitoring Verify critical functions with 24/7 enterprise system health management Admin management, storage retention and video quality settings System recording and camera status Advanced, fully user-customizable system reports To learn more about myDW, click here. To learn more about DW's industry-leading video surveillance products, visit ABOUT DIGITAL WATCHDOG Founded in 1987, DW is a leading manufacturer of cloud-centric, NDAA/TAA-compliant complete surveillance solutions, delivering easy-to-use, resource-saving artificial intelligence (AI), stunning image quality, advanced hardware capabilities, superior video management, reliable customer support and the lowest total cost of deployment for IP megapixel, Universal HD over Coax megapixel, and legacy analog applications. DW's catalog includes perimeter protection devices, including motion detectors, illuminators and horn speakers, as well as an NDAA-compliant elevated skin temperature system. With offices in Cerritos, California and Tampa, Florida, and manufacturing facilities in Seoul, Korea, DW is committed to delivering powerful security solutions to its customers worldwide. ### For Images or More Information: Mark Espenschied Director of Marketing DW Complete Surveillance Solutions marke@ Toll-Free: 866.446.3595 x283 Source: Digital Watchdog Follow the full story here:
Globe and Mail
19-06-2025
- Business
- Globe and Mail
CanAlaska Announces Results from Property-Wide Airborne Surveys on 16,000 Hectare Frontier Project
Multiple Priority Exploration Target Zones Identified, Stock Options Granted Saskatoon, Canada--(Newsfile Corp. - June 19, 2025) - CanAlaska Uranium Ltd. (TSXV: CVV) (OTCQX: CVVUF) (FSE: DH7) (" CanAlaska" or the " Company") is pleased to announce results from a series of property-wide airborne geophysical surveys completed on its 100%-owned Frontier Project (the "Project"). The results from high-resolution helicopter-borne Versatile Time Domian Electromagnetic (VTEM Plus), horizontal magnetic gradient, and radiometric surveys identified several exploration target zones on the Project. The purpose of the surveys was to identify and prioritize basement conductors, characterize lithological and alteration variations, refine areas of interest for ground prospecting, and map the structural setting of the project to support future drill targets. The Project is located in the northeastern Athabasca Basin approximately 30 kilometres northeast of the McClean Lake mill complex and Roughrider uranium deposit, and 35 kilometres north of Cameco's Eagle Point uranium mine (Figure 1). To view an enhanced version of this graphic, please visit: Frontier Airborne Survey Results The Frontier project is located five kilometres northeast of the present-day Athabasca Basin edge. Compilation work on the project has highlighted a prominent 25-kilometre-long northeast trending magnetic low corridor, termed here as the Roughrider Mineralized Corridor ("RMC"). This regional-scale corridor, which continues off property to the southwest, hosts multiple uranium deposits and showings, including Roughrider, Midwest, J Zone, Dawn Lake, Moonlight, Osprey, and the McClean Lake mine and mill complex. Figure 2 – Frontier Project Airborne Survey Target Areas To view an enhanced version of this graphic, please visit: The recently completed VTEM Plus survey consisted of 931 line-km's of helicopter-borne surveying at a 200 metre line spacing across the Project. This was followed by a high-resolution magnetics and radiometrics survey that consisted of 3,739 line-km's of helicopter-borne surveying at 50 metre line spacing across the Project. The surveys were conducted by Geotech Ltd. of Aurora, Ontario and survey management and processing were conducted by Condor Consulting, Inc. Upon completion, the results of the airborne surveys were processed using 3D magnetic inversions and subsequently processed through a GeoInterp data analysis. GeoInterp is a form of data analysis to extract lithostratigraphic and structural elements from magnetic data. As a result of data processing and the GeoInterp analysis, a series of target zones were identified on the Frontier Project (Figure 2). The target zones are concentrated around large-scale north to northwest trending faults that are associated with shorter strike length faults and conductors. The highest priority target zones are those where magnetic low structural corridors are associated with cross-cutting fault features. The Point Lake Anomaly, a historical lake sediment sample collected in the early 1990's by the Geological Survey of Canada that returned 34.7 ppm uranium associated with elevated cobalt, copper, molybdenum, and nickel, is located along one of the main north-south trending features within the central target area. The airborne surveys completed on the Frontier Project represent a critical step in the Company's exploration strategy looking for tier 1 basement-hosted uranium deposits. The Company has deliberately generated a strategic land portfolio in the infrastructure-rich northeastern Athabasca Basin region along corridors that show geological and structural similarities to the Arrow and Eagle Point basement-hosted uranium deposits. The Company is actively seeking Joint Venture partners to move the Project to the next exploration stage. CanAlaska CEO, Cory Belyk, comments, "The Frontier project work has generated some very compelling basement-hosted uranium exploration targets along the prolific Roughrider Mineralized Corridor. The CanAlaska team will actively seek exploration partners to help move the Frontier project toward discovery. With the uranium market continuing to strengthen and the baseline market fundamentals stronger than ever, we believe the Frontier project should garner considerable interest from explorers looking for a large and drill-ready project in the infrastructure-rich northeastern Athabasca Basin." Other News The Company also announces that it has granted incentive stock options to certain directors, officers, employees and consultants of the Company to purchase up to an aggregate of 6,060,000 common shares of the Company pursuant to CanAlaska's omnibus equity incentive plan. These options are exercisable for a period of three years at a price of $0.88 per share. Pursuant to TSX Venture Exchange (" TSXV") policies, 50,000 of these options granted to an investor relations consultant (see below) will vest as to 25% on each of 3, 6, 9 and 12 months from their date of grant. All other options are fully vested. The Company also announces that it has extended the term of its investor relations letter agreement with Rayleigh Capital Ltd. (" Rayleigh Capital") from December 31, 2024 to December 31, 2025, subject to approval from the TSXV (refer to the Company's news release of July 28, 2023). Either party is permitted to terminate the extended agreement upon providing the other party with 60 days' prior written notice of termination. Rayleigh Capital focuses on global investor relations for junior and small cap companies specializing at exposing companies to a wide audience of investment professionals. Under the extended agreement, commencing January 1, 2025, the Company will pay $8,500 per month (plus GST) to Rayleigh Capital to provide liaison, coordination, corporate growth strategy, communications and other services to CanAlaska. The fee to be paid by the Company to Rayleigh Capital under the agreement is for services only. The Company and Rayleigh Capital act at arm's length. Rayleigh Capital has no present interest, directly or indirectly, in the Company or its securities, except that it has today been granted stock options pursuant to CanAlaska's omnibus equity incentive plan. This news release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any of the securities in the United States of America. The securities have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933 (the "1933 Act") or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold within the United States or to U.S. Persons (as defined in the 1933 Act) unless registered under the 1933 Act and applicable state securities laws, or an exemption from such registration is available. Technical Disclosure - Historical Results The historical results contained within this news release have been captured from the Saskatchewan Mineral Assessment Database (SMAD) as available and may be incomplete or subject to minor location inaccuracies. Management cautions that historical results were collected and reported by past operators and have not been verified nor confirmed by a Qualified Person but form a basis for ongoing work on the subject projects. Management cautions that past results or discoveries on proximate land or neighboring properties are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be achieved on the subject properties. About CanAlaska Uranium CanAlaska is a leading explorer of uranium in the Athabasca Basin of Saskatchewan, Canada. With a project generator model, the Company has built a large portfolio of uranium projects in the Athabasca Basin. CanAlaska owns numerous uranium properties, totaling approximately 500,000 hectares, with clearly defined targets in the Athabasca Basin covering both basement and unconformity uranium deposit potential. The Company has recently concentrated on the West McArthur high-grade uranium expansion with targets in 2024 leading to significant success at Pike Zone. Fully financed for the upcoming 2025 drill season, CanAlaska is focused on Tier 1 Uranium deposit discovery and delineation in a safe and secure jurisdiction. The Company has the right team in place with a track record of discovery and projects that are located next to critical mine and mill infrastructure. The Company's head office is in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada with a satellite office in Vancouver, BC, Canada. The Qualified Person under National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects for this news release is Nathan Bridge, MSc., P. Geo., Vice-President Exploration for CanAlaska Uranium Ltd., who has reviewed and approved its contents. On behalf of the Board of Directors "Cory Belyk" Cory Belyk, FGC CEO, President and Director CanAlaska Uranium Ltd. Contacts: Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. Forward-looking information All statements included in this press release that address activities, events or developments that the Company expects, believes or anticipates will or may occur in the future are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are frequently identified by such words as "may", "will", "plan", "expect", "anticipate", "estimate", "intend" and similar words referring to future events and results. Forward-looking statements are based on the current opinions and expectations of management. These forward-looking statements involve numerous assumptions made by the Company based on its experience, perception of historical trends, current conditions, expected future developments and other factors it believes are appropriate in the circumstances. In addition, these statements involve substantial known and unknown risks and uncertainties that contribute to the possibility that the predictions, forecasts, projections and other forward-looking statements will prove inaccurate, certain of which are beyond the Company's control. Actual events or results may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements and the Company cautions against placing undue reliance thereon. The Company assumes no obligation to revise or update these forward-looking statements except as required by applicable law.
Forbes
30-03-2025
- Business
- Forbes
How Visa Uses AI To Fight E-Commerce Fraud And Bolster Cybersecurity
Visa's Cyber Fusion Center in Ashburn, Virginia is so secure that Michael Jabbara, the San Francisco-based global head of fraud services for the credit card network, has trouble getting through its double set of doors. With a Forbes reporter in tow, he scans his badge to get through the first door, a sensor beeps, but it doesn't unlock. Finally, with the help of the on-site security team, we get through both sets (the second requiring a fingerprint as well as an ID badge) and enter the Cyber Fusion Center, which sits at the heart of a secure 42-acre campus. Drive into this Visa complex without clearance from the security personnel manning the gate and you could end up in a drainage pond—a modern day protective moat. Inside the Fusion Center, analysts monitor a large screen displaying a variety of data reflecting how smoothly Visa's deluge of transactions–some 310 billion worth $15.9 trillion in 2024–are being processed worldwide, and where suspicious activity is high. 'A lot of the suspicious attacks are handled in an automated fashion, but there are certain incidents that generate human intervention and then they get worked through a consistent playbook,'' Jabbara explains. Visa employees keep an eye on usage statistics and reported problems in the Cyber Fusion Center in Ashburn, Virginia. Many suspicious attacks are handled automatically, but sometimes humans intervene. His ID badge now working, Jabbara leads the way through yet another set of secure doors to the Situation Room, where a big screen displays more charts and lists, plus a news feed. In this room, employees are watching threats against Visa's clients–the 14,500 financial institutions in more than 200 countries who are part of the world's largest credit card network. Jabbara points to a chart that shows an ongoing brute force attack in which fraudsters are bombarding vendors with thousands of attempts to come up with an account number, expiration date and three-digit. CVV code that will work together. 'Our aim is to make sure that we are detecting large-scale attacks that could result in catastrophic losses or loss to consumer confidence,' he says. Within the Situation Room area is another smaller conference room that contains yet another Visa unit; the workers in this one monitor the cybersecurity of Visa's own network operations. 'One of the things that we've really benefitted from is having this close collaboration between cyber and fraud, because the threats are common, the actors are common,'' says Jabbara. That's particularly true, he says, as fraud rings have become more sophisticated and nation-states more involved in fraud as well as cyber attacks. It's late morning in Virginia, but as it turns to night, this center will empty out and Visa's security centers in London, Bangalore and Singapore will handle more of the activity. In all, Visa now has more than 1,000 employees worldwide dedicated to risk and security and says it has invested $11 billion in anti-fraud technology in the past five years. At the same time, it's been building a side business selling the fraud-fighting expertise it's had to develop–some $1.5 billion of Visa's $35.9 billion in 2024 revenue came from its sale of risk and security services. Both fraud and fighting fraud are big businesses, with artificial intelligence increasingly driving growth on both sides. During Cyber Monday last November, Visa reported an 85% year-over-year increase in fraud attempts, and a stunning 200% increase for the first official weekend of holiday shopping –increases it attributes in large part to AI. That word "attempts" is key, since most are thwarted, points out Steve Yin, global head of fraud at TransUnion. (The big credit bureau got 7% of its $4.4 billion in 2024 revenue selling fraud prevention software.) TransUnion estimates that 5.2% of all attempted digital transactions in the first half of 2024 involved suspected fraud, with the vast majority of those blocked. Still, the cost of successful fraud is growing, albeit at a much slower pace than attempts. Juniper Research estimates that e-commerce fraudsters worldwide grabbed $44 billion in 2024 and will siphon off $107 billion by 2029–for a 19.5% compound annual growth rate. 'It is a constant arms race,' observes Nick Maynard, vice president of fintech market research for Juniper. On the fraudsters' side, AI helps them launch more, and more sophisticated attacks, in a variety of ways. Among other things, they can impersonate people through deep fakes; launch mass attacks to find vulnerabilities in systems; use bots to navigate websites and extract information; and generate more believable emails that lead people to give up sensitive information. The protectors are equally dependent on AI. Visa now uses 115 different cybersecurity tools that collect and analyze intelligence from more than 300 resources, reports Visa Chief Information Security Officer Subra Kumaraswarmy. The company has built some of those tools, including a behavior analytics platform and its threat intelligence fusion platform. It also works with cybersecurity tool vendors including Microsoft, Thales, IBM, Zscaler, Cloudflare, Checkpoint and Palo Alto Networks. Because companies use so many different anti-fraud tools simultaneously, and because there are always new variants to fight, the anti-fraud business is also fertile ground for fintech startups. It's notable that five companies on the Forbes 2025 Fintech 50 list–Alloy, DataVisor, Persona, SentiLink and Zip– help businesses prevent financial fraud, with each having its own specialty. DataVisor, for example, uses what's known as 'unsupervised' machine learning to find correlations in seemingly unrelated events that could represent previously undiscovered fraud rings or methods. Sentilink, which first made its mark fighting synthetic identify fraud (where scammers combine real Social Security numbers and fake names), recently developed a tool to catch assumed identity abuse, a new variant where fraudsters exploit real identities for people who entered the U.S. on temporary visas and have since left. (Synthetic and other fake identities are used, among other things, to acquire credit cards, take out car and personal loans and open bank accounts used in fraudulent schemes.) Visa isn't the only big credit card network treating fraud as not only a threat, but a business opportunity. In December, Mastercard, the #2 network, finalized the $2.65 billion acquisition of Recorded Future, an AI-heavy cybersecurity company with 1,900 clients in 50 countries and $300 million in annual revenues. Last year, before that deal was announced, Mastercard launched a service with Recorded Future that aims to alert banks more quickly when a credit card is likely to have been compromised. The partnership, it says, has doubled the number of potentially compromised cards identified. (Mastercard doesn't disclose how much of its $28 billion in 2024 revenues came from selling security services.) Within its own network, Mastercard has been using AI to stop fraud for more than a decade, notes Ranjita Iyer, executive vice president for cyber and intelligence solutions. Like Visa, it monitors transactions across its entire network, using AI to detect suspicious activity. Recently, she says, it has started using generative AI to predict what an individual merchant's business at a certain time should look like. That allows it to alert merchants if actual patterns diverge from what's projected, a possible warning flag of fraud. Last year Mastercard also began selling banks an upgraded Decision Intelligence Pro system that uses AI to analyze and produce a risk score for each individual transaction in real time (less than 50 milliseconds), based on the purchase, the merchant, the cardholder, and other factors. The pitch is that it will not only detect more fraud, but produce fewer false positives, so fewer legitimate transactions will be blocked. For all the AI-based systems fighting fraud, human behavior still plays a key role in enabling and stopping scams. 'If you're securing the data, if you're securing the infrastructure, what's the weakest link? It's the consumer," says Visa's Jabbara. 'There's no patch that we can send out to consumers to make them be more security conscious. That's why you've seen this massive proliferation of social engineering attacks, phishing scams, phishing, all of that.' In a TransUnion survey of adults in 18 countries, 49% said they were targeted by email, online, phone call or text messages during the second quarter of 2024. One phishing scheme on the rise: fake cancellation messages, meaning texts or emails telling users that something they have bought or booked will be cancelled unless they log in using an included link. Of course if they do, their log-in credentials are stolen. Earlier this month, when Visa announced a new 'scam disruption practice' (a team that includes former law enforcement professionals as well AI developers and data visualization experts), Jabbara offered an intriguing example of the sort of scam that the team is targeting. Fraudsters were sending a phishing link from a dating website that looked like it was an identity verification page. But those who clicked were involuntarily enrolled in a monthly billing plan they never meant to sign up for. The team used the data from cracking that scam to look for others operating in a similarly deceptive fashion and turned up 12,000 'merchants' engaged in the ploy. The rapid spread of that variant is evidence of another vexing development: fraud as a service. Just as companies like Visa and Mastercard are selling their antifraud expertise to others, so too are fraudsters selling their new schemes to other fraudsters. 'These are very smart individuals and they're very creative individuals,'' Yin observes. 'It's an ongoing battle,' says Yin, who expresses faith in the ability of the fraud deterrence industry to come up with approaches to keep the bad guys in check. One area TransUnion is working with clients on now is introducing more friction to today's instant transactions—extra steps that won't annoy a legitimate customer so much as to scare them off, but can deter fraudsters. Consumers, he says optimistically, 'will embrace friction if they have a belief and an understanding that it's actually helping them reduce the likelihood that they're going to be a victim of fraud.'
Morocco World
19-03-2025
- Business
- Morocco World
Information of Over 30k Moroccan Bank Cards Reportedly for Sale on Dark Web
Rabat – A recent cybersecurity analysis has uncovered a significant data breach affecting thousands of Moroccan banking customers. Published by Cypherleak, a cybersecurity firm specializing in digital threats, the analysis reveals that a total of 31,220 Moroccan bank cards have been compromised with their data now available on dark web marketplaces. The investigation revealed alarming details about the scope of the breach. Of the compromised cards, 21,657 had their CVV security codes exposed, while 19,453 included expiration dates. More concerning, 5,523 of these cards remain valid and active, leaving their owners unprotected against the risk of financial fraud and unauthorized transactions. While the analysis kept the specific banks affected anonymous in the report, the scale of the breach highlights critical vulnerabilities in banking data protection systems. The incident underscores the urgent need for financial institutions to strengthen their security measures and data safeguards. Generally, the stolen information is sold on underground forums and criminal marketplaces where cybercriminals purchase the data to conduct fraudulent transactions, commit identity theft, or launch targeted attacks against cardholders. Cybersecurity specialists warn that the consequences for affected individuals could be severe. Security experts recommend that banking customers regularly check their statements for unauthorized activity, immediately report suspicious transactions to their banks, and enhance their online transaction security. Using services that monitor for compromised data can also help prevent potential fraud. This breach represents part of a growing trend in cybercrime targeting financial institutions and their customers, with dark web marketplaces increasingly serving as hubs for the exchange of stolen financial data. Tags: Credit CardsLeaked Credit Cards informationMoroccan Banks
Ya Biladi
19-03-2025
- Business
- Ya Biladi
Over 31,000 payment cards leaked to the dark web in Morocco
Estimated read time: 1' More than 31,000 payment card details from Morocco have been leaked and are now available on the dark web, according to multinational cybersecurity company Cypherleak. The company provides an automated cyber risk monitoring and rating platform. In a post shared last week on its LinkedIn account, Cypherleak revealed its findings: a total of 31,220 leaked payment cards from Morocco were detected. The company reported that 21,657 cards were leaked with Card Verification Value (CVV) information, a three- or four-digit security code used as an extra layer of protection for online and card-not-present transactions. Additionally, 19,453 cards included expiration dates, while 5,523 of the leaked cards are still valid, posing a direct risk of financial fraud. A graph accompanying the post presents an analysis of the leaked payment card data in Morocco, with a focus on the number of compromised cards per bank (bank names were anonymized). «The data was collected from dark web sources», Cypherleak stated. Cypherleak urged individuals and Moroccan financial institutions to reach out for details on whether their bank's payment cards have been affected. Founded in 2022, Cypherleak is headquartered in Newark, Delaware, with additional offices in the United Arab Emirates and Morocco.
