Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 10, 2022

The financial services ecosystem has evolved tremendously over the past few years driven by a surge in the adoption of digital payments. This raises the question of where digital payment technologies will take us in the future, and how will this affect consumers? How Can We Secure The Future of Digital Payments?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 19, 2023

The first news that is trending is associated with financial service provider PayPal. According to the official statement from the company, the leak took place on January 11th,2023 through a tool exploit related to Mailchimp Customer Support and Account Administration.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Like other ransomware groups, its threat actors use double extortion tactics, predominantly targeting organizations in the US in five critical infrastructure sectors: critical manufacturing, financial services, government facilities, healthcare and public health, and information technology.

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SC Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

Supples spoke to SC Media in an interview alongside EBCS Director David Maimon, who said his research team would study the modus operandi of cybercriminals operating on the dark net and other encrypted channels, as well as the different types of fraud exist across various platforms – and how they evolve. “[We

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Data breaches caused by weak security measures and procedures result in severe monetary losses, erosion of clients’ trust, and irreversible reputation damage to organizations in the healthcare, financial services, technology, and retail industries, as well as government and public sector entities.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Credit cards offer markedly better fraud protections than debit cards , which connect directly to your bank account. Virtual credit cards similarly allow online shoppers to mask their financial accounts. Many financial institutions offer free transaction alerts that notify you when charges hit your account.

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2022

“Frappo” grants cybercriminals the ability to work with stolen data anonymously and in an encrypted format. Frappo” was initially designed to be an anonymous cryptocurrency wallet based on a fork of Metamask and is completely anonymous, it doesn’t require a threat actor to register an account.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The Pitney Bowes company announced that a ransomware attack infected its systems and cause a partial system outage that made some of its service unavailable for some customers. Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that provides commerce solutions in the areas of ecommerce, shipping, mailing, data and financial services.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

This includes the evolution from physical currency and checks to digital payment methods such as credit and debit cards, as well as the emergence of newer technologies like mobile payments and cryptocurrencies. Open banking is a good indicator of the speed and extent to which consumers and businesses are adopting new payment technologies.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

are subject to laws such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (the HITECH Act), as well as regulations such as the Clinical Laboratory Improvements Amendments (CLIA). Financial Data Protection Laws.

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LRQA Nettitude Labs

JULY 5, 2023

The exploding popularity of AI and its proliferation within the media has led to a rush to integrate this incredibly powerful technology into all sorts of different applications. In the initial stages of implementation, regulators might provide guidance on how to demonstrate accountability.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 4, 2022

It's slightly different from a standard ransomware attack—encrypting a user's files is a secondary concern. Essentially, leakware attacks demand victims pay a ransom to accomplish two things: recover their encrypted data and prevent confidential, sensitive information from being disseminated. Adopt cloud services.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2022

Then, they enter those accounts for the purpose of abusing permissions, siphoning out data, or both. Also, with the massive push to remote work, XaaS technologies and the rush to the convenience of apps, companies are relying heavily on APIs which are often underprotected. How credential stuffing attacks work.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 12, 2021

Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Protected Health Information (PHI), private financial records, and a selection of other sensitive data hold all the required elements to perpetrate crimes such as blackmail, impersonation, and identity theft, or a combinations of these. All of the regulations do not make clear distinctions.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Cyber criminals may damage, destroy, steal, encrypt, expose, or leak data as well as cause harm to a system. Encrypted threats spiked 167%, ransomware increased 105%, and 5.4 In May, cybersecurity researchers revealed that ransomware attacks are increasing their aggressive approach by destroying data instead of encrypting it.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 19, 2022

million downloads per day and 9,400 stars on Git Hub, cert-manager protects cloud native workloads with TLS encryption and provides critical security for clusters. million downloads per day across industries including financial services, technology, retail, healthcare and manufacturing. With over 1.5

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Established by the main major credit card financial companies back in 2004 (American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB International, Mastercard and Visa), the standard has evolved over the years and is currently at version 4.0. Important Note: PCI DSS current version, Version 3.2.1, Key Modifications PCI DSS 4.0

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 22, 2018

But now we face a rapid bloom of new alternative technologies for facilitating transactions. However, no matter how innovative these services are when it comes to the social relationships or the legal arrangements on which they depend, their ultimate success still comes down to trust – or rather, the lack of it.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

All of your files are encrypted with RSA-2048 and AES-128 ciphers.” ” Or you might see a readme.txt stating, “Your files have been replaced by these encrypted containers and aren’t accessible; you will lose your files on [enter date] unless you pay $2500 in Bitcoin.” IMPORTANT INFORMATION !!!

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Treasury Department report linked nearly $600 million in transactions to ransomware payments in “Suspicious Activity Reports” financial services firms have filed to the U.S. Zero Trust assumes there is no implicit trust granted to assets, user accounts, microservices, or data based solely on their location. A recent U.S.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The contemporary world has witnessed the rise of the Internet and global communication, and collaboration technologies, including mobile data use and the culture of bring your own device [BYOD]. VoIP phishing and impersonation also victimized millions of corporate employees across the world , contributing to an even greater cyber threat.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

LogicManager’s GRC solution has specific use cases across financial services, education, government, healthcare, retail, and technology industries, among others. The technology itself encompasses a number of tools, including: Compliance management. Additionally, Forrester named it a Contender in its Q1 2020 GRC Wave.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

LogicManager’s GRC solution has specific use cases across financial services, education, government, healthcare, retail, and technology industries, among others. The technology itself encompasses a number of tools, including: Compliance management. Additionally, Forrester named it a Contender in its Q1 2020 GRC Wave.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

The days where victims could simply pay ransom for an encryption key, unscramble their data, and move on are ending. Their new trick is to extract precious company data before encrypting it, so the attacks pack a one-two punch—they threaten embarrassing data breaches on top of crippling data destruction.

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NetSpi Executives

APRIL 27, 2024

Ransomware, a definition Ransomware is a set of malware technologies, hacking techniques, and social engineering tactics that cybercriminals use to cause harm, breach data, and render data unusable. Attempt access to file and SQL servers with privileged accounts. How and why do ransomware attackers exfiltrate data?

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The gang has scored a series of resonant attacks on oil companies, financial services , government agencies and healthcare providers. As with most cyberextortionists lately, the Cuba gang encrypts victims’ files and demands a ransom in exchange for a decryption key. It looks for data both locally and inside network shares.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

By Stephanie Benoit Kurtz, Lead Faculty for the College of Information Systems and Technology at University of Phoenix. Organizations continue to invest in technology at a record pace; however still continue to be at risk. It is this type of failure in credential management that bad actors leverage to gain access to accounts, and data.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 9, 2022

In a FLASH publication issued by the FBI in coordination with DHS/CISA, the FBI says it has identified at least 52 organizations across 10 critical infrastructure sectors affected by RagnarLocker ransomware, including organizations in the critical manufacturing, energy, financial services, government, and information technology sectors.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 21, 2020

Furthermore, 50% encountered ransomware and other malware; 29% reported incidents of data getting exposed; 25% had accounts compromised; and 17% dealt with incidents of crypto-jacking. These protocols need to be accounted for. Sophos found that fully 70% of organizations experienced a public cloud security incident in the last year.

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Duo's Security Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Governments are recognizing that their technology footprint extends beyond their network edge, and that their ability to function depends on their third (and fourth and fifth) party ecosystem. Agencies and their suppliers will need to amend their security strategies to account for these new requirements.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 14, 2021

Companies must comply with laws and regulations, so it’s a question to prepare for, particularly if the company works in a heavily regulated industry such as financial services, pharma, food and beverage, or energy. encrypt passwords) as opposed to 15 different rules across various country, state and local authorities.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

So, you know, now you had to be one of the privileged millions who can freely create a Peloton account so even though it was authenticated then that was not super helpful I guess. So account balance and, you know, Do you want to transfer that kind of stuff. It simplifies communication. I could see the communication wide open.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

So, you know, now you had to be one of the privileged millions who can freely create a Peloton account so even though it was authenticated then that was not super helpful I guess. So account balance and, you know, Do you want to transfer that kind of stuff. It simplifies communication. I could see the communication wide open.

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Spinone

JANUARY 27, 2019

Especially for business sectors that by default demand an ultra-secure posture such as banks and financial institutions, security in the public cloud is certainly a topic for concern. Banks and financial institutions have been very slow to adopt cloud technology and service offerings either in the public cloud or via hybrid cloud offerings.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

Simon Moffatt from CyberHut joins The Hacker Mind to discuss how identity and access management (IAM) is fundamental to everything we do online today, and why even multi-factor access, while an improvement, needs to yield to more effortless and more secure passwordless technology that’s coming soon. They didn't use mobile phones.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Gaps in human capital and tools to securely deploy cloud services The Treasury’s point here, as stated in its news release on the report , is the “current talent pool needed to help financial firms tailor cloud services to better serve their customers and protect their information is well below demand.”

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Gaps in human capital and tools to securely deploy cloud services The Treasury’s point here, as stated in its news release on the report , is the “current talent pool needed to help financial firms tailor cloud services to better serve their customers and protect their information is well below demand.”

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