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Cloudflare: Mirai Botnet Launched Record-Breaking DDoS Attack

eSecurity Planet

Cloudflare last month fought off a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by a botnet that was bombarding 17.2 million requests per second (rps) at one of the internet infrastructure company’s customers in the financial services space. There was a 53% increase in first-quarter attacks among healthcare organizations.

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Experts found a new TrickBot module (rdpScanDll) built for RDP bruteforcing operations

Security Affairs

TrickBot is a popular banking Trojan that has been around since October 2016, its authors have continuously upgraded it by implementing new features. Security experts from Bitdefender recently discovered a new TrickBot variant that is targeting telecommunications organizations in the United States and Hong Kong.

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Integrating Long-Term Digital Preservation into Your Information Governance Program: First Steps

Preservica

The 2016 IGI Benchmark Report on The Governance of Long-term Digital Information confirmed that nearly all organizations represented have digital records and information that keep or need to keep in excess of 10 years. 3) Be prepared to articulate the value as well as the risks of digital information.

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A consumer perspective on FinTech disruption (part 3)

CGI

This is the final blog in my three-part series on the disruptive impact of financial technology (FinTech) firms on today’s banks. The blog series is based on the findings of CGI’s 2016 survey of 1,670 consumers across 8 countries, which assessed consumer perspectives on 12 leading digital FinTech services.*

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Tuesday’s Relativity Fest 2019 Sessions: eDiscovery Trends

eDiscovery Daily

Speakers Include: Constantine Pappas – Senior Manager, Relativity Solutions, Relativity; Karen Wagshul – eDiscovery Counsel, Allstate; Kimberly Quan – Lead, eDiscovery & Information Governance, Juniper Networks; Beth Solomon – Director & Senior Counsel, Payments, Discover Financial Services.

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An Approach to Cybersecurity Risk Oversight for Corporate Directors

Data Matters

In particular, in a blog article entitled, The NIST Cybersecurity Framework and the FTC , dated August 31, 2016, the FTC provided guidance suggesting that the NIST Cybersecurity Framework is consistent with the agency’s approach followed since the late 1990s in over 60 law enforcement actions and in business education guidance.

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Nation-State-Sponsored Attacks: Not Your Grandfather’s Cyber Attacks

Data Matters

Like an incident response plan, MFA has become a critical element of cybersecurity programs, as recent regulations from the New York Department of Financial Services and the Federal Trade Commission, among others, reflect. Both Microsoft and Mandiant identify MFA as one of the most important recommendations to mitigate risk.