Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2020

According to a filing (PDF) by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS), the weakness that exposed the documents was first introduced during an application software update in May 2014 and went undetected for years. The documents were available without authentication to anyone with a Web browser.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Having experienced NYDFS's stringency first-hand in regards to regulation for financial services, this comes as no surprise," Krista Arndt , CISO at United Musculoskeletal Partners, wrote in a LinkedIn post on December 5. "I The act mandates risk assessments, incident reporting, and data breach notification procedures.

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SC Magazine

MAY 13, 2021

For the first time since the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report began tracking cyberattack techniques, threat patterns affecting small and medium businesses began to closely align with the patterns affecting large firms. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images). This is increasingly proving to be false, Basset said.

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Hacker Combat

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The penalized companies are Investment Services, Advisor Networks, Financial Specialists, Investment Advisers, and Advisors, all under the Cetera group. Investment Research Advisors and Investment Research from Cambridge Investment were affected, as well as KMS, a registered financial services provider based in Seattle. .

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2019

Turn the corner into 2019 and we find Citigroup, CapitalOne, Wells Fargo and HSBC Life Insurance among a host of firms hitting the crisis button after their customers’ records turned up on a database of some 24 million financial and banking documents found parked on an Internet-accessible server — without so much as password protection.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

million unique email addresses, NordLocker found, for an array of different apps and services. These included logins for social media, online games, online marketplaces, job-search sites, consumer electronics, financial services, email services, and more. The 26 million login credentials held 1.1

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

Now, headlines about ransomware, cyberattacks, and data breaches pour into social media feeds as steady as a river flows. SecureWorld News takes a look at some of the largest data breaches to ever occur. Top 10 most significant data breaches. Yahoo data breach (2013). Who attacked: no attacker.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

According to Akamai’s latest State of the Internet report on credential stuffing, credential stuffing continues to be growing threat. According to Akamai report titled “[state of the internet] / security CREDENTIAL STUFFING ATTACKS “ the credential stuffing attacks are a growing threat and often underestimated.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 31, 2020

Over the years processes, training and tooling to account for data privacy and data integrity have been woven in, driven by data breach lawsuits and the rise of data handling regulations. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Spirent refers to this as “data breach emulation,’’ something David DeSanto, Spirent’s threat research director, told me is designed to give companyies a great advantage; it makes it possible to see precisely how the latest ransomware or crypto mining malware would impact a specific network, with all of its quirky complexity.

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2022

Resecurity® is an Affiliate Member of FS-ISAC and an Official Member of Infragard which aim to combat cybercriminal activity targeting financial services and Internet users globally. Detailed analysis of the Phishing-As-A-Service Frappo is available here: [link].

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Now headlines about ransomware, cyberattacks and data breaches pour into social media feeds at a steady drumbeat. SecureWorld now takes a look at some of the largest data breaches to ever occur. Top 10 most significant data breaches. Yahoo data breach (2013). Equifax data breach (2017).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Society’s dependence on internet-based technologies means security professionals must defend against cyberattacks as well as more traditional threats, such as robbers or disgruntled employees. A recent report found 50 percent of all data breaches in the U.S. Financial Services. Here are four of them: 1.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

If you have to connect to the internet using a public network, do so with a virtual private network. VPNs encrypt data , making it much harder to intercept when transmitted through a shared or suspect internet connection. Limit the scope of your holiday spending. Vary login credentials across accounts.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2022

Earmarked by the FBI as a particular threat to the financial service industry just over a year ago, the increase of internet traffic, data breaches and API usage all contribute to the perfect conditions for successful credential stuffing attacks. Good password hygiene and password managers. “If

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

But the cloud's "as-a-Service" model does not provide service levels with penalties; rather, services are "best effort" with at most an outage penalty that is far less than the business value of the service disruption or breach. This emphasis on compliance and breaches in Supplier Management is purposeful.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Between June and November 2019, a small group of cyber criminals targeted a financial services institution and three of its clients, resulting in the compromise of more than 4,000 online banking accounts, according to a credible financial source. Detecting credential stuffing attacks.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

tl;dr - a collection of nearly 3k alleged data breaches has appeared with a bunch of data already proven legitimate from previous incidents, but also tens of millions of addresses that haven't been seen in HIBP before. It's also interesting because among nearly 3k other breaches, the data contains Dropbox.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2021

Forex trading may be dominated by banks and global financial services but, thanks to the Internet, the average person can today dabble directly in forex, securities and commodities trading. In the rush toward online trading though, users have entrusted terabytes of confidential data to online forex trading platforms.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2024

New York City based Sisense has more than 1,000 customers across a range of industry verticals, including financial services, telecommunications, healthcare and higher education. ” “We are taking this matter seriously and promptly commenced an investigation,” Dash continued.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2021

Some instructive fresh intelligence about how cyber attacks continue to saturate the Internet comes to us from Akamai Technologies. Akamai, which happens to be the Hawaiian word for “smart,” recently released its annual State of the Internet security report. billion web attacks globally; 736 million in the financial services sector.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

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. (If The anonymity of the Internet, cryptocurrency and the lack of international cooperation between the U.S.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

With that an attacker couldn't necessarily intercept the data, but they could query the peloton API to get user data that they weren't supposed to. In other words, Peloton suffered from an API vulnerability that could potentially lead to a massive data breach. Let's make some toothbrushes connect to the internet.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

With that an attacker couldn't necessarily intercept the data, but they could query the peloton API to get user data that they weren't supposed to. In other words, Peloton suffered from an API vulnerability that could potentially lead to a massive data breach. Let's make some toothbrushes connect to the internet.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 21, 2020

Digital commerce from day one has revolved around companies bulling forward to take full advantage of wondrous decentralized, anonymous characteristics of the Internet, which began a military-academic experiment. New cloud PaaS services, such as shared storage, containers, database services and serverless functions etc.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

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? Yet in the age of Big Data and digital transformation many organizations still don’t do this very well. It’s not for lack of trying.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 22, 2024

Now, customers can kickstart the application process from the comfort of their homes or any place with internet access. Online banking services have become so common that according to Forbes , more than 70% of adults in the U.S. prefer banking through mobile apps or websites, while only 29% favor in-person banking.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 29, 2019

In short, APIs are multiplying fast and creating the automated highways of data. The growth of APIs on the public Internet grew faster in 2019 than in previous years, according to ProgrammableWeb. The services on that smartphone you’re holding makes use of hundreds of unique APIs. And you can understand why. I’ll keep watch.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

By scanning a range of IP addresses, they can identify potential targets that have SMB services exposed to the internet. The image below shows prebuilt EternalBlue exploits Cybernews screenshot Shodan and Similar Tools: Shodan is a search engine that scans and indexes internet-connected devices, including vulnerable systems.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Bringing automation, Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, and the Internet of Things (IoT) to the workplace as part of digital transformation has many benefits. HelpSystems' research with Financial Services (FS) CISOs in Q4 2020 revealed the extent of this task. government.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

MARCH 23, 2018

In its Global Risk Report 2017 , the World Economic Forum found that “large-scale cyber-attacks or malware causing large economic damages” or “widspread loss of trust in the internet” remain the primary business risks in North America.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 7, 2021

Data enrichment is a thing that happens in the criminal economy. When you have a victim that came from a phishing attack on the financial services industry for example, and then later you obtain that victim’s gaming details, if there is a match on email addresses, username, address, etc.

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BH Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Instead, it recommends multi-factor authentication for accessing internet-exposed systems. There are lots of good reasons to start using alternatives to passwords for accessing critical services. The respected Verizon Data Breach Incident Report repeatedly flagged easily guessed passwords as a key driver of security breaches.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Added pressure came from having to also meet stringent new data security rules that took shape in the form of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation, New York state’s Cybersecurity Requirements for Financial Services Companies and California’s Consumer Privacy Act. And the massive data breaches just keep on coming.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The teens also took over Twitter accounts of several cryptocurrency companies regulated by the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS). In its new report, the New York State Department of Financial Services says the cyberattack and resulting bitcoin scam netted the teen hackers at least $118,000.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Israeli man sentenced to 80 months in prison for providing hacker-for-hire services Russian APT Gamaredon uses USB worm LitterDrifter against Ukraine The board of directors of OpenAI fired Sam Altman Medusa ransomware gang claims the hack of Toyota Financial Services CISA adds Sophos Web Appliance bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (..)

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

Privafy aims to serve a valuable corner of the market – securing data-in-motion. As up to 80 percent of data breaches occur while data moves between cloud networks, Privafy offers security for cloud infrastructure as well as a list of edge computing solutions to securely deploy IoT devices and edge networks in the years to come.

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