The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Hear about the smart toaster that got attacked three times within an hour after its IP address first appeared on the Internet? million and grown to 42 employees, winning customers in leading media firms, financial services companies and government agencies in the Nordics. That’s improved as MSSPs incorporate advanced services.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 17, 2020

Related: Defending botnet-driven business logic hacks APIs made possible the astounding cloud, mobile and IoT services we have today. This was possible because APIs – the conduits that enable two software applications to exchange information – are open and decentralized, exactly like the Internet. There’s a long way to go.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In total, 1,000 consumer facing websites were analyzed, including the Internet Retailer Top 500, FDIC 100 banks, top social networking companies, top 50 news and media companies, government agencies and leading Internet of Things (IoT) providers focused on home automation and wearable technologies. Media Contact.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 17, 2021

The summer of 2019 was a heady time for the financial services industry. During this process of on-the-fly software creation — as well as when the software gets deployed into service — the apps come to life by interconnecting physical servers, virtual machines, laptops, smartphones and IoT devices.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

HYAS offers threat intelligence services , but the company’s calling card revolves around two tools, called Insight and Protect, that pull around 3 billion data points about adversary infrastructure every day from various sources on the internet and third-party data brokers.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This next-generation network goes beyond faster speeds and reduced latency; it is expected to be the backbone of emerging technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT), autonomous vehicles, and smart cities.

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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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SC Magazine

MARCH 16, 2021

In that role, he leads a global team that ensures the safety and security of the Mastercard network as well as internal and external products and services. He is chair of the Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council (FSSCC).

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SC Magazine

MAY 1, 2021

He is a cybersecurity and M&A professional, focusing predominantly within financial services, life sciences, health care and retail industries. He was previously senior manager at Deloitte, focused on IoT and industrial cybersecurity. Sean McElroy has been securing financial services solutions in the cloud for over 20 years.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. With the extensive use of the internet, malicious ads pose a long-lasting threat if not blocked. Healthcare and financial services are the most attacked industries. Ransomware facts.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

So, at a very high level, we do use an application on a mobile device that connects to the internet and sends some data to the server. Vamosi: So it's this lack of somebody who knows security, and I'm sure the internet connected toothbrushes are in that same category, along with all the other Internet of Things products.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

So, at a very high level, we do use an application on a mobile device that connects to the internet and sends some data to the server. Vamosi: So it's this lack of somebody who knows security, and I'm sure the internet connected toothbrushes are in that same category, along with all the other Internet of Things products.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Globally, healthcare, financial services, manufacturing and state and local governments continue to see a rise in the frequency of attacks. From internet providers to manufacturers, this continues to be an issue. IoT and DoS. IoT/OT and DoS attack vectors were key areas in 2022 for an attack.

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NetSpi Executives

APRIL 27, 2024

An attacker can easily scan the internet for websites that haven’t patched a vulnerability for which the attacker has an exploit. Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS). In addition to encrypting data and holding it hostage, ransomware attackers also upload valuable data to other systems on the internet. Unpatched exploits.

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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.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Imagine a large organization with a network infrastructure comprising multiple interconnected systems, including servers, workstations, and IoT devices. By scanning a range of IP addresses, they can identify potential targets that have SMB services exposed to the internet. Does EternalBlue still exist?

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2021

million requests per second against a target in the financial services industry. Also read: Top 10 Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Protection Vendors. IoT Exacerbating the Situation. Cloudflare in July said it fought off a DDoS botnet attack that was sending 17.2

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 14, 2022

“Since the barrier-to-entry for threat actors is now lower than ever with easily accessible DDoS-for-hire services and IP stressers, compromised IoT devices can and will drive this growth,” said Charles Choe, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Akamai. 8 Top DDoS Protection Services. Amazon Web Services. Cloudflare.

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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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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Two-factor authentication is also being deployed for mobile security and by Internet of Things companies such as Nest to secure IoT devices. Banking, financial services, and insurance industries constitute the largest share of adopters, with North America leading adoption, according to Orbis Research.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

Available as a free and open-source tool, Xplico’s primary objective is to extract application data from an internet traffic capture. Today, in a world with billions of devices, Paraben covers forensic investigations involving email, computers, smartphones, and IoT devices. Global Digital Forensic. DFS Market Trends.

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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. This is, in essence, how Uber got hacked last year.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Companies are fundamentally reshaping their businesses and taking advantage of digital technologies like cloud, mobile, social media, and the Internet of Things to transform the experience their customers receive, create innovative new business models, and find ways to realize new efficiencies and reduce their operating costs.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

I first met Dan when he was literally saving the world; okay, at least saving the internet as we know it today by disclosing to the major ISPs in the world a flaw he’d found in the Domain Name System or DNS. Dan found a flaw that could have crippled the internet. VAMOSI: Michael mentioned financial services.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

MAY 23, 2017

It also comes in the wake of federal departments and agencies, such as DHS, Health and Human Services, and the Securities and Exchange Commission, focusing their efforts on cybersecurity in medical devices , mobile devices , financial services , and the Internet of Things (IoT).

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

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. Strata Identity. JupiterOne. SpiderSilk. Cape Privacy.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2021

Larger organizations most targeted by advanced persistent threats (APTs) like enterprises and government agencies, financial services, energy, and telecommunications make up Kaspersky EDR’s clientele. Web application firewalls (WAF) offer monitoring, filtering, and blocking of internet communications.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 21, 2019

. – namely smart refrigerators, garage doors, home routers and the like – nearly quadrupled for the retail and financial services sectors. The result is what we see taking place in the Internet wild today. Across US-based financial services companies, attacks from bulletproof proxies spiked 518% between Q1 2019 and Q2 2019.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Will Enable Mass Spying Reddit Says Leaked U.S.-U.K. billion personal records compromised by data breaches in past two years — underscoring need for end‑to‑end encryption Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter)

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