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Takeaways From Viasat Outage

Data Breach Today

This edition analyzes how hackers exploited a misconfigured VPN device, gained access to Viasat's satellite network and caused a massive outage in Europe as Russia's invasion of Ukraine began. It also examines the invasion's impact on financial services and how to modernize security operations.

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Embracing new ways of working in financial services

CGI

Embracing new ways of working in financial services. The question is how, when disruptions in day-to-day life and business abound. How will banks respond, rebound and reinvent? How will banks respond, rebound and reinvent? This will require banks to ensure both easy access and a consistent experience.

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New York Department of Financial Services Released New Guidance Addressing COVID-19 Related Cybersecurity Risks

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

Continuing its focus on COVID-19’s impact on its regulated entities, on April 13, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) released new cybersecurity guidance in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, this shift has created new cybersecurity vulnerabilities and expanded the endpoints that criminals can target.

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How to Prevent Data Breaches: Data Breach Prevention Tips

eSecurity Planet

An important data protection concept for all organizations is zero trust : by limiting access and privileged accounts and walling off your most critical assets with tools like microsegmentation , a network incursion doesn’t have to become a headline-making data breach. Also read: Network Protection: How to Secure a Network 2.

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RSAC Fireside Chat: The need to stop mobile apps from exposing API keys, user credentials in runtime

The Last Watchdog

Hackers know just how vulnerable companies are at this moment. Approov recently did a deep dive study of 650 financial services mobile apps of financial institutions across Europe and the US. 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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How to responsibly scale business-ready generative AI

IBM Big Data Hub

Possibilities are growing that include assisting in writing articles, essays or emails; accessing summarized research; generating and brainstorming ideas; dynamic search with personalized recommendations for retail and travel; and explaining complicated topics for education and training.

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What is credential stuffing? And how to prevent it?

Security Affairs

Earmarked by the FBI as a particular threat to the financial service industry just over a year ago, the increase of internet traffic, data breaches and API usage all contribute to the perfect conditions for successful credential stuffing attacks. You can’t access an account with recycled credentials if there aren’t any.

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