The Last Watchdog

MARCH 14, 2022

Financial services, health, home security, governance and all other mission critical services are now provided online. More than 96% of all internet users have never read a single privacy policy text. What technologies should the tool use? The technologies for making this tool a reality are already out there.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2022

technology firm, confirmed receipt of USDoD’s message but asked to remain anonymous for this story. That InfraGard member, who is head of security at a major U.S. This is a developing story. Updates will be noted here with timestamps.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 3, 2019

A Pennsylvania credit union is suing financial industry technology giant Fiserv , alleging that “baffling” security vulnerabilities in the company’s software are “wreaking havoc” on its customers. Moreover, this information can be guessed through a trial-and-error process.

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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. Financial services is, and always will be, a top target for criminals.

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Hacker's King

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Cybersecurity has become one of the most critical fields in technology, ensuring that data, networks, and systems are protected from unauthorized access and malicious attacks. Finance and Banking Financial institutions are prime targets for cyberattacks due to the sensitive nature of the data they hold.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

That said, Microsoft Exchange on-premises email servers – technology that once, not too long ago, dominated this space – remain in pervasive business use today. What’s more, many of the organizations migrating to cloud IT infrastructure services are patching together hybrid email systems, part on-premises and part cloud-hosted.

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Marketing Financial Services Ransomware Software 222

Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Sophisticated Internet of Things (IoT) technologies transformed the cybersecurity systems in financial services. They’re continuously evolving and improving. Take credit cards as an example—commercial banks significantly cut the risk of skimming by replacing magstripe cards with chip-and-PIN cards.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

They must abide by strict policies to meet the requirements of their regulators, which has often prevented them from gaining the benefits of new technologies. We have seen particular growth in interest from banks and financial services in deploying a cloud-based Zero Trust approach. Enabling the future of banking.

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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

JANUARY 28, 2024

In addition to developing and getting in position to supply the technology, Boyle says. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW LW provides consulting services to the vendors we cover.) The transformation progresses.

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SecureList

MAY 28, 2025

This targeting strategy reflected a focused campaign aimed at compromising users of financial services through credential theft. This update added 14 new targeted applications, increasing the scope of its attacks and broadening the range of financial services it can exploit.

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Banking Malware Energy and Utilities Encryption 109

The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The Internet of Things (IoT) has come a long, long way since precocious students at Carnegie Melon University installed micro-switches inside of a Coca-Cola vending machine so they could remotely check on the temperature and availability of their favorite beverages. Related: Companies sustain damage from IoT attacks That was back in 1982.

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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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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 1, 2019

SOAR, if you haven’t heard, is a hot new technology stack that takes well-understood data mining and business intelligence analytics methodologies — techniques that are deeply utilized in financial services, retailing and other business verticals – and applies them to cybersecurity.

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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

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

And it’s certainly not for lack of technology; just visit the vast exhibitors’ floor at RSA Conference or Black Hat USA. We discussed how SecurityFirst set out three years ago to begin commercially distributing something called cryptographic splitting technology. based start-up, SecurityFirst. One can only hope. Talk more soon.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 26, 2019

Pick any company in any vertical – financial services, government, defense, manufacturing, insurance, healthcare, retailing, travel and hospitality – and you’ll find employees, partners, third-party suppliers and customers all demanding remote access to an expanding menu of apps — using their smartphones and laptops.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Rather than doors, locks and vaults, IT departments rely on a combination of strategies, technologies, and user awareness training to protect an enterprise against cybersecurity attacks that can compromise systems, steal data and other valuable company information, and damage an enterprise’s reputation. What is Cybersecurity Risk Management?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

“PIONEER KITTEN tradecraft is characterized by a pronounced reliance on exploits of remote external services on internet-facing assets to achieve initial access to victims, as well as an almost total reliance on open-source tooling during operations.” ” reads the report published by Crowdstrike.

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SC Magazine

MAY 1, 2021

Brian Levine is senior director of product security at Axway, a global security engineering organization delivering training, tools, processes and DevSecOps practices for secure applications and cloud services to the enterprise market. In government, Brooks served under President George W.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Curcio walked me through how identity management technologies evolved over the past two decades. Next, along came the IGA startups like Omada, SailPoint and Saviynt, to essentially to pick up where the first generation of provisioning and de-provisioning technologies left off. I found this historical overview to be quite instructive.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The nonstop intensity of these attacks is vividly illustrated by the fact that malicious bot communications now account for one-third of total Internet traffic. Vulnerable online apps and services factored in as a primary target of automated botnet attacks. They are now chief privacy officer and chief technology officer, respectively.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Mobile payment platforms, like Apple Pay and Google Pay, use advanced technology, like fingerprint authentication and tokenization (in which credit card account numbers are replaced by randomly generated numbers) to provide brick-and-mortar shoppers with an added layer of security. Consider alternate payment methods.

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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. From internet providers to manufacturers, this continues to be an issue. Third-Party/Supply Chain Risk.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 17, 2021

The summer of 2019 was a heady time for the financial services industry. While CWPP technologies are designed to detect and prevent intrusions, CSPM systems carry out the daily grunt work, if you will, of systematically identifying and remediating workload vulnerabilities lurking within modern hybrid networks. “We

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The internet has drawn comparisons to the Wild West, making ransomware the digital incarnation of a hold-up. The technology industry has met the dramatic rise in ransomware and other cyber attacks with an impressive set of tools to help companies mitigate the risks. But the situation isn’t hopeless. Prevalence.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 3, 2019

Companies are increasingly deploying this new technology to replace contractors and to do automated tasks. Think of a customer service chat bot, for instance,” explained Kiser. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. Talk more soon.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 16, 2022

Our national security interests, economic infrastructure, technology and innovation, and public health and safety largely rest within private industry. From energy, food, water, and roadways to banks, schools, hospitals, and the internet, our society is completely dependent upon critical infrastructure.

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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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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 24, 2025

DORA establishes strict cybersecurity requirements for financial firms including banks , insurance companies and investment firms, as well as for third-parties that provide information and communications technology (ICT) products and services to financial sector organizations. Monterey Benchmark v4.0.0 CIS Apple macOS 14.0

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Microsoft reports that in doing so, Octo Tempest progressively broadened the number of industries it targeted for extortion, including natural resources, gaming, hospitality, consumer products, retail, managed service providers, manufacturing, law, technology, and financial services. Prevent intrusions.

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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Some of our first customers were in financial services and government agencies, where our technologies were used to create a “need to know” in a system that obeys a strict privilege hierarchy and where “root” owns all things. However, technology and governance have. Technology.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

17 the actor leveraged leased infrastructure in the United States to scan hundreds of vulnerable organizations across the internet. During that window, the actor successfully compromised at least nine global entities across the technology, defense, healthcare, energy and education industries.” . “As early as Sept.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In the private sector, he was a CISO for an insurance company, credit card processor, bank, credit union, and IT Managed Service Provider. He has also succeeded in other IT risk management roles in the financial services, technology, telecom, and logistics industries. He lives in Seattle with his wife and six kids.

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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. 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

AUGUST 22, 2019

Shifting requirements One way to understand the security hazards is to think about the radical changes being imposed on the traditional enterprise technology stack. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW But we’re at the start of a long journey.

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Digital transformation Risk Firewall Accountability 147