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Fidelity Data Breach Exposes Data of Over 77,000 Customers

Tech Republic Security

An attacker snuck in by creating two new user accounts. Fidelity Investments assures customers their investments were not affected.

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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. Not only are breaches at record highs – with 65% of U.S. Does your organization need some of that?

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How to Prevent Data Breaches: Data Breach Prevention Tips

eSecurity Planet

With the ever-present threat of data breaches, organizations need to adopt best practices to help prevent breaches and to respond to them when they occur to limit any damage. And breaches will occur – because bad guys make a living by figuring out ways to circumvent security best practices.

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Financial Services Organizations Need to Adapt their Security Practices to the Shifting Environment

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Financial Services Organizations Need to Adapt their Security Practices to the Shifting Environment. Companies and organizations, whether in the public or in the private sector, are re-establishing their business in the era of information and data revolution. Weak security practices lead to data breaches.

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The Future of Payments Security

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Even when banking organizations are upgrading security posture to safeguard sensitive financial information, hackers can steal the data intelligently by tying known vulnerabilities together, and making it turn out to be a potential attack. The stolen data is used both to commit fraud directly and indirectly. Data security.

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News alert: Harter Secrest & Emery announces designation as NetDiligence-authorized Breach Coac

The Last Watchdog

15, 2024 – Harter Secrest & Emery LLP , a full-service business law firm with offices throughout New York, is pleased to announce that it has been selected as a NetDiligence-authorized Breach Coach ® , a designation only extended to law firms that demonstrate competency and sophistication in data breach response.

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NEW TECH: How ‘cryptographic splitting’ bakes-in security at a ‘protect-the-data-itself’ level

The Last Watchdog

How can it be that marquee enterprises like Capital One, Marriott, Facebook, Yahoo, HBO, Equifax, Uber and countless others continue to lose sensitive information in massive data breaches? Here are key takeaways: Security benefits Protect the data itself. It’s not for lack of trying. a year and is on a curve to reach $133.8