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Financial Services Data – More at risk than you’d believe

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

One of the top findings from the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Financial Services Edition was that data breaches in U.S. financial services organizations are increasing at an alarming rate. Each and every environment and instance requires a data security plan and implementation tuned to the environment.

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Octo Tempest cybercriminal group is "a growing concern"—Microsoft

Malwarebytes

In a security blog about Octo Tempest Microsoft states: “Octo Tempest monetized their intrusions in 2022 by selling SIM swaps to other criminals and performing account takeovers of high-net-worth individuals to steal their cryptocurrency.”

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Anomali Harris Poll Research Shows 87 Percent of Enterprise Security Decision Makers Have Had Successful Cyberattacks Perpetrated Against Their Businesses Over the Past Three Years, Ransomware Payments Topped $1 Million

CyberSecurity Insiders

To help organizations achieve a higher level of resiliency across their organizations, Anomali Threat Research provided in-depth analysis and advice, their top takeaways included: Big Data – Cybersecurity professionals are now using big data analytics to identify threats before they happen. Blog: [link].

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It’s time to think twice about retail loyalty programs

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

As I was starting to write this blog, yet another retail program data breach occurred, for Marriott’s Starwood loyalty program. To make a long story short – the top reason that they didn’t invest in data security was “lack of perceived need” at 52%.

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GUEST ESSAY: The Top 5 myths about SIEM –‘security information and event management’

The Last Watchdog

Querying at scale is a long-recognized challenge of legacy SIEM solutions; when you intentionally create a big data problem, you must also find a way to solve it. However, there are cases where enterprises, like large players in the financial services vertical, simply need to collect ridiculously vast amounts of data.

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Federal Agency Data is Under Siege

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The 57 percent rate statistic is the highest of all verticals we measured in this year’s report (others include the healthcare industry, the retail industry, and the financial services industry) or any region surveyed. The post Federal Agency Data is Under Siege appeared first on Data Security Blog | Thales eSecurity.

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Ten Years Later, New Clues in the Target Breach

Krebs on Security

“I’m looking for people with their own not-recently-registered accounts on forums, (except for search) Social networks, Twitter, blogs, their websites. . “Good afternoon,” r-fac1 wrote on Dec. Tasks, depending on your accounts, post text and a link, sometimes just a link.