Data Matters

MAY 21, 2020

Contemporaneously, FinCEN issued an Advisory on Medical Scams Related to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) (the Advisory). As FinCEN has stated, compliance with the BSA remains crucial. SAR Filing Instructions — Avoid COVID-19 Disclaimers/Statements Related to Challenges in Filing. Government Agencies — Whom to Contact.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 8, 2019

And earlier this year, three popular “ selfie beauty apps ”– Pro Selfie Beauty Camera, Selfie Beauty Camera Pro and Pretty Beauty Camera 2019 – accessible in Google Play Store were revealed to actually be tools to spread adware and spyware. has begun delivering. The bypassing itself is not explicitly forbidden on Play Store.

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IT Governance

APRIL 10, 2019

On 14 September 2019, the PSD2 (Second Payment Services Directive) will take effect, overhauling the way people pay for goods and services across the EU. The legislation has been implemented to prevent fraud and to keep customers’ payment details secure during in-store, online and card-not-present transactions.

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IT Governance

JULY 29, 2019

This blog has been updated to reflect industry developments. And these attacks are on the rise – Proofpoint’s 2019 State of the Phish Report reveals that 83% of survey respondents experienced phishing attacks in 2018. Originally published Mar 27, 2017. Phishing attacks are a persistent threat to businesses.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The additional guidance also states that firms using this safeguarding method must maintain a designated safeguarding account with a credit institution for the full term of the insurance policy or comparable guarantee. its Perimeter Guidance Manual (PERG). its Perimeter Guidance Manual (PERG). Temporary COVID Guidance.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In August, the travel exchange firm Travelex collapsed into administration following ongoing losses related to the ransomware attack it suffered on New Year’s Eve 2019. million) recovering from security incidents, which represents a slight decrease on 2019. You can read the first part here >>. million (about £2.9 million (about £2.9

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IT Governance

JULY 7, 2021

Welcome to July’s review of phishing scams, in which we look at criminals’ latest tactics and provide examples of successful frauds. The number of officially reported HMRC-branded phishing scams increased from 572,029 in the 2019–2020 fiscal year to 1,069,522 in 2020–2021, according to data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 9, 2023

A phishing attack is a fraudulent email, text or voice message designed to trick people into downloading malware (such as ransomware ), revealing sensitive information (such as usernames, passwords or credit card details) or sending money to the wrong people. The messages employ the same social engineering tactics (e.g.,

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2020

One of the digital underground’s most popular stores for peddling stolen credit card information began selling a batch of more than three million new card records this week. Q6Cyber CEO Eli Dominitz said the breach appears to extend from May 2019 through September 2020.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2019

As banking malware, Anubis operates by tricking its victims into providing personal and sensitive information such as online banking credentials, banking security codes and even credit card details. The malware was rented privately to a limited number of “customers”; criminals willing to use such malware to perform fraud.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 15, 2020

In December 2019, the video conferencing software had 10 million daily users. IT Governance has recorded more than 1,000 publicly disclosed cyber security incidents so far this year and 20 billion breached records. These figures dwarf last year’s totals and show that criminal hackers were one of the few winners of 2020. More on that later.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 27, 2019

A royal baby, a fire at Notre-Dame, the highest grossing film of all time and more than 12 billion breached data records: 2019 has been quite a year. IT Governance is closing out the year by rounding up 2019’s biggest information security stories. Part one covers January to June, and will be followed by part in the coming days.

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Data Protection Report

JULY 9, 2018

states have recently introduced and passed legislation to expand data breach notification rules and to mirror some of the protections provided by Europe’s newly enacted General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). See our previous blog posts on GDPR here and here. State Laws Round Up: . Several U.S.

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Facing a procedural deadline for a ballot initiative, the Legislature acted with dispatch, as it did not want to add to the State Constitution, with its super-majority amendment requirements, many of the provisions that ultimately found their way into the CCPA. On October 10, 2019, this wait finally ended. INTRO AND BACKGROUND.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

retail giant Target was battling a wide-ranging computer intrusion that compromised more than 40 million customer payment cards over the previous month. Rescator, advertising a new batch of cards stolen in a 2014 breach at P.F. Rescator, advertising a new batch of cards stolen in a 2014 breach at P.F. Chang’s.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 15, 2018

12, the Pentagon disclosed that intruders breached Defense Department travel records and compromised the personal information and credit card data of U.S. It will be interesting to see if there is a nation-state tie-in to this latest attack. government strategic systems. On Friday, Oct. military and civilian personnel.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 17, 2019

Data breaches are at an epidemic level with healthcare organizations experiencing the highest attack rate compared to any other industry studied according to the new Thales 2019 Data Threat Report-Healthcare Edition. A credit card or bank account can be closed. Certain types of fraud can be effectively shut down.

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IT Governance

APRIL 3, 2019

According to The British Retail Consortium’s 2019 Retail Crime Survey , large organisations invested £162 million in cyber defences in the 2017­–18 financial year, an increase of 17% on 2017. Retailers are vulnerable to a broad range of attacks because they process large volumes of customer data, including payment card information.

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2021

For the second month in a row, ransomware has dominated our list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Of the 128 publicly disclosed incidents that we discovered in May, more than 40% of them were ransomware attacks. But, of course, the nature of ransomware attacks makes it hard for organisations to determine how many records were affected.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Kent State students hit by credential harvesting (3,000). In a month where security experts across Europe were boosting awareness of cyber security , organisations had mixed results in their own data protection practices. Snapchat hack leads to Missouri-based school shooting threat (1). Ransomware.

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IT Governance

MAY 1, 2019

Still, April 2019 saw a not completely disastrous 1,334,488,724 breached records. Hacker breached Minnesota state agency email (11,000). Blue Cross of Idaho notifies members of privacy breach after thwarting financial fraud (5,600). That’s better than last month, bringing the annual total to 5.64

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

In particular, firms can expect OCIE examinations to focus on the following core areas with respect to retail investors (which may include retail customers, clients and fund investors): Fraud, Sales Practices and Conflicts of Interest. 1 In general, the 2020 Examination Priorities continue recurring themes from recent prior years.

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Data Matters

JANUARY 24, 2020

In particular, firms can expect OCIE examinations to focus on the following core areas with respect to retail investors (which may include retail customers, clients and fund investors): Fraud, Sales Practices and Conflicts of Interest. 1 In general, the 2020 Examination Priorities continue recurring themes from recent prior years.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Malware , a portmanteau of “malicious software,” refers to any software, code, or computer program intentionally designed to cause harm to a computer system or its users. Virtually every modern cyberattack involves some type of malware. Every year , there are billions of malware attacks on businesses and individuals.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 7, 2021

The current state of data in cybersecurity is a tale of The Haves and The Have-WAY-mores. Casinos trade intel on card counters. Sure, opposing cybersecurity organizations share some data, but these trivial generic observations won’t mitigate account takeover and new registration fraud. Cybersecurity should not be one of them.

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