Guest Post: Digital Fingerprinting—Do You Know Who You’re Doing Business With? standard
The following is a guest post by Frank Stornello of Verifi. Online fraudsters benefit from the anonymity of a virtual medium. They can invent and reinvent who they are on any given day. And they do. They can change email addresses or IP addresses in just a few clicks. But it’s a little more expensive and time consuming to change the hardware that they’re using to make a purchase—the PC, laptop or smartphone. That’s why “digital fingerprinting” or “device fingerprinting” has become a popular means for fraud prevention. Just as good old-fashioned fingerprinting has been used for over a century to identify criminals and thwart crime, digital fingerprinting can do the same by identifying the fraudsters’ tools, if not the ...
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