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News alert: Beazley reports on how AI, new tech distract businesses as cyber risk intensifies

The Last Watchdog

London, July 13, 2023 — Beazley, the leading specialist insurer, today published its latest Risk & Resilience report: Spotlight on: Cyber & Technology Risks 2023. trillion by 2025, a 300% increase since 2015 1. Beazley’s underwriters in the United States focus on writing a range of specialist insurance products.

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E-Verify’s “SSN Lock” is Nothing of the Sort

Krebs on Security

A reader who was recently the victim of unemployment insurance fraud said he was told he should create an account at the Department of Homeland Security ‘s myE-Verify website , and place a lock on his Social Security number (SSN) to minimize the chances that ID thieves might abuse his identity for employment fraud in the future.

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Access to over 3,000 compromised sites sold on Russian black marketplace MagBo

Security Affairs

Most of the compromised websites are e-commerce sites, but crooks also offered access to websites of organizations in healthcare, legal, education and insurance industries and belonging to government agencies. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Russian, or German hosting services.

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What is a Cyberattack? Types and Defenses

eSecurity Planet

Cisco Umbrella , analyzing the threat environment for 2022, found that 86% of organizations experienced phishing, 69% experienced unsolicited crypto mining, 50% were affected by ransomware, and 48% experienced some form of information-stealing malware. Capital markets, insurance, financial services, and banking are now online.

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Interview with Gus Tugendhat of Tussell

Information Matters

Gus: I formed the company in March 2015 with tech co-founder John Rotherham. The market already has lots of tender portals but nobody has taken the tenders and contracts and turned them into an intelligent database which can be mined efficiently. Martin: Tell me a bit about the history of Tussell.

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Capital One Data Theft Impacts 106M People

Krebs on Security

consumers, and roughly 1 million Social Insurance Numbers (SINs) for Canadian credit card customers. Specifically, Erratic mentions one botnet involved in cryptojacking, which uses snippets of code installed on Web sites — often surreptitiously — designed to mine cryptocurrencies.

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10 Personal Finance Lessons for Technology Professionals

Troy Hunt

Number 1 is "Mining, Resources & Energy" which had a local boom here but is now rapidly declining (down 14% on the previous year). Take mining out of the picture and the top industry ("Consulting & Strategy"), pays only 5% more than tech. pic.twitter.com/yNuQLUC7EK — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) October 16, 2015.

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