Max Anhoury: “We can no longer count on our information being a secret” Fraud-prevention strategy for card issuers is to check the “reputation” of a device behind a transaction, he says. Iovation has a database of 3 billion devices worldwide that issuers can use to check in real time whether a particular device has been previously used for an account takeover or synthetic identity theft or has other indicators of risk. In an interview with Information Security Media Group at the Fraud Summit Chicago he describes the process fraudsters use to obtain new credit cards.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/how-to-check-devices-reputation-a-8274