Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Lastly, the Alert provides recommendations to secure data, noting that (1) regulated entities should review whether it is necessary to display any NPI (even redacted NPI) and (2) NPI should not be displayed on public-facing sites unless there is a compelling reason to do so.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

CloudPassage’s 2021 AWS Cloud Security Report found that misconfiguration of cloud platforms (71 percent), exfiltration of sensitive data (59 percent), and insecure APIs (54 percent) are the top cloud security threats facing cybersecurity professionals. Those concerns are certainly justified. What is cloud security? Source: Microsoft.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

On February 4, 2021, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) issued Circular Letter No. The post New York Department of Financial Services Issues First Guidance by a U.S. Issuance of the Framework is notable as it represents the first official guidance by a U.S. Evaluate Systemic Risk. 1 See W.B.

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erwin

JANUARY 7, 2021

Our predictions for 2021 are rooted in what we’ve learned from the past year and the relevance of data in getting us to where we are and where we need to go. Data Becomes a Matter of Life or Death: To say that data will be the difference between life and death in 2021 is not hyperbole. COVID changed everything.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Also Read: Best Encryption Tools & Software for 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. A ransomware attack is about as bad as a cyber attack can get. Jump to: What is ransomware? How ransomware works. Preventing ransomware.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2023

“The Australian and New Zealand Nissan Corporation and Financial Services (“Nissan”) advises that its systems have been subject to a cyber incident. In January 2021, a misconfigured Git server caused the leak of the source code of mobile apps and internal software used by Nissan North America. and nissan.co.nz.

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Data Protection Report

MARCH 1, 2021

On March 3, 2021, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) announced a Consent Order with a NYDFS-licensed Maine-based mortgage banker and loan servicer settling alleged violations of the NYDFS cybersecurity regulations. ( In the matter of Residential Mortgage Services, Inc., March 3, 2021).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Akamai announced it has mitigated the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on a U.S. financial company. Cybersecurity firm Akamai successfully identified and prevented a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack targeting an unnamed, leading American financial institution. gigabits per second. .

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2024

The Australian and New Zealand Nissan Corporation and Financial Services (“Nissan”) advises that its systems have been subject to a cyber incident. In January 2021, a misconfigured Git server caused the leak of the source code of mobile apps and internal software used by Nissan North America.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 1, 2022

On June 24, 2022, the New York State Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS” or the “Department”) announced it had entered into a $5 million settlement with Carnival Corp. Since Carnival was licensed by the Department to sell insurance in NY State, it was treated as a covered entity under the Cybersecurity Regulation.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 1, 2021

Financial services giant Intuit this week informed 1.4 Intuit says the change is tied to an “exciting” and “free” new service that will let millions of small business employees get easy access to employment and income verification services when they wish to apply for a loan or line of credit.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Pacific City Bank is an American community bank that focuses on the Korean-American community based in California and offers commercial banking services. The bank was hit by AVOS Locker Ransomware operators who claim to have stolen sensitive documents from the financial institution.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2021

The three vulnerabilities used in ProxyShell attacks are: CVE-2021-34473 – Pre-auth Path Confusion leads to ACL Bypass (Patched in April by KB5001779 ) CVE-2021-34523 – Elevation of Privilege on Exchange PowerShell Backend (Patched in April by KB5001779 ) CVE-2021-31207 – Post-auth Arbitrary-File-Write leads to RCE (Patched in May by KB5003435 ).

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

On August 30, 2021, the U.S. 34-92806 ; and In the Matter of KMS Financial Services, Inc. , Release No. 34-92807 , August 30, 2021. According to the SEC order against KMS Financial Services Inc., The cases are In the Matter of Cetera Advisor Networks LLC , Release No.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Additional findings of the research include: •The Banking & Financial Services and Public Sector industries have experienced the largest share of critical-severity vulnerabilities due to their aggressive modernization efforts. Stockhom, Sweden & Boston, Mass., Go hack yourself: detectify.com. press@detectify.com

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has published its 2021 Annual Report , highlighting key observations, emerging guidance, and large-scale inquiries and decisions of 2021. The DPC received a total of 6,549 valid notifications of personal data breaches in 2021. Complaints Handling.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

LogicManager’s GRC solution has specific use cases across financial services, education, government, healthcare, retail, and technology industries, among others. LogicManager’s GRC solution has specific use cases across financial services, education, government, healthcare, retail, and technology industries, among others.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2021

Finance is a decentralized lending protocol for individuals, institutions and protocols to access financial services. — Cream Finance (@CreamdotFinance) August 30, 2021. peckshield) August 30, 2021. peckshield) August 30, 2021. It promises earnings to users who are passively holding ETH or wBTC. in ETH coins.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2021

Recently Cyber researchers for Cyble investigated an attack suffered by on May 30, 2021, by Nucleus Software, an India-based IT company in the Banking and Financial Services sector. Nucleus Software declared that it does not store customers’ financial data. The ransomware payload was compiled on May 29, 2021.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 25, 2022

Curiously, the fraudsters had taken out a loan in Jim’s name with MSF using his real email address — the same email address the fraudsters had used to impersonate him to MSF back in May 2021. ” According to the Native American Financial Services Association (NAFSA), a trade group in Washington, D.C.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 1, 2023

We continue to make key updates to our cloud infrastructure to drive progress that has resulted in improvements to cloud stability and resiliency, including an 87% year-over-year reduction in Severity 1 Customer Impacting Events (CIEs) and a 38% decrease in Severity 1 CIE disruption time for the same compared periods in 2022 versus 2021.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Zelle is run by Early Warning Services LLC (EWS), a private financial services company which is jointly owned by Bank of America , Capital One , JPMorgan Chase , PNC Bank , Truist , U.S. million of payments in 2021 and the first half of 2022,” the report summarized. Bank , and Wells Fargo. ” Sen.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Meanwhile, the hackers responsible are communicating directly with members through the InfraGard portal online — using a new account under the assumed identity of a financial industry CEO that was vetted by the FBI itself. InfraGard , a program run by the U.S. That InfraGard member, who is head of security at a major U.S.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2022

defense contractors , financial services firms, and a national data center in Central Asia. In the recent attacks, the APT group leveraged the Log4j vulnerabilities ( CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45105 ) to install web shells on target servers. based organization. The group also targeted a hospital in South East Asia.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The financial services industry has been in the process of modernizing its data governance for more than a decade. How can banks, credit unions, and financial advisors keep up with demanding regulations while battling restricted budgets and higher employee turnover? How will one decision affect customers? Stakeholders?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2021

Razer is a very popular computer peripherals manufacturer that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, financial services, and gaming hardware, including gaming mouses and keyboards. So here's a freebie pic.twitter.com/xDkl87RCmz — jonhat (@j0nh4t) August 21, 2021. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Finance is a decentralized lending protocol for individuals, institutions and protocols to access financial services. — Cream Finance (@CreamdotFinance) October 27, 2021. pic.twitter.com/eLPMz3YEII — SlowMist (@SlowMist_Team) October 27, 2021. ETH and 60 tokens including HBTC, USDT, BUSD, etc.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2021

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. This group is likely large, well-funded and dedicated.”.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 12, 2023

As a leading financial group in Spain, CaixaBank has long been an innovator by taking a technology-first approach by placing innovation, digital transformation, customer experience and sustainable banking at the forefront of its strategy. CaixaBank is continuing its initiative to increase cloud absorption.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2021

DIVD Chairman Victor Gevers told BleepingComputer that the advisory was originally shared with 68 government CERTs under a coordinated disclosure, but became public after one of them shared it with an organization’s service desk operating in the Financial Services. On 12 August 2021 Kaseya released version 10.5.5-2

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received 3,729 ransomware complaints in 2021, representing $49.2 Healthcare and public health, financial services, and IT organizations are frequent targets, although businesses of all sizes can fall victim to these schemes. Prevalence. million in adjusted losses.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2022

” Since December 2021 Cuba operators are continuing to target U.S. entities Financial Services, Government Facilities, Healthcare and Public Health, Critical Manufacturing, and Information Technology. “FBI has identified a sharp increase in the both the number of compromised U.S. ” reads the report.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Tue, 11/23/2021 - 06:13. Digital-only banks and Fintechs are expected to grow “at a compound annual rate of about 23.41%” from 2021-2026. Digital-only banks and Fintechs are expected to grow “at a compound annual rate of about 23.41%” from 2021-2026. The full digitization of contracts, subscriptions and consumption of services.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2023

In 2021, CISA added Remcos to the list of top malware strains due to its use in mass phishing attacks using COVID-19 pandemic themes targeting businesses and individuals. Tax Day, Microsoft has observed a new Remcos RAT campaign targeting US accounting and tax return preparation firms. LNK) files.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In 2021, on-premises Microsoft Exchange Server mailboxes commanded a 43 percent global market share as compared to 57 percent for cloud Exchange mailboxes, according to this report from Statista.

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Data Matters

JUNE 24, 2021

On June 15, 2021, the SEC announced settled charges against First American Title Insurance Company (First American) for disclosure controls and procedures violations related to a cybersecurity vulnerability that exposed sensitive customer information. SEC Statement and Guidance on Public Company Cybersecurity Disclosures. 20, 2017).

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2021

The American multinational investment bank and financial services firm Morgan Stanley discloses a data breach caused by the hack of an Accellion FTA server of a third-party vendor. The company has offices in more than 42 countries and more than 60,000 employees, it has clients in multiple industries. ” reads the letter.

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