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50 Ways to Avoid Getting Scammed on Black Friday

Adam Levin

It’s worth noting that there’s no reason a legitimate retailer would need that last one — the skeleton key to your identity — to process a purchase.). Make sure your smartphone, tablet and laptop are password-protected, particularly if you’re in the habit of carrying them around wherever you go. Create long and strong passwords.

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Exclusive: Welcome “Frappo” – Resecurity identified a new Phishing-as-a-Service

Security Affairs

“Frappo” acts as a Phishing-as-a-Service and enables cybercriminals the ability to host and generate high-quality phishing pages which impersonate major online banking, e-commerce, popular retailers, and online-services to steal customer data. Detailed analysis of the Phishing-As-A-Service Frappo is available here: [link].

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NEW TECH: This free tool can help gauge, manage third-party cyber risk; it’s called ‘VRMMM’

The Last Watchdog

million patients when hackers gained unauthorized access to databases operated by a third-party billing vendor. One might assume top-tier financial services firms and healthcare vendors would have solved third-party cyber exposures by now. Late last year, Atrium Health disclosed it lost sensitive data for some 2.65

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Top 12 Cloud Security Best Practices for 2021

eSecurity Planet

What measures does the provider have in place to protect various access components? Which roles or individuals from the provider have access to the data stored in the cloud? Deploy an identity and access management solution. What level of technical support is the provider willing to provide? Train your staff.

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NEW TECH: Cequence Security launches platform to shield apps, APIs from malicious botnets

The Last Watchdog

Bad actors are standing up these virtual bots by the million, cheaply and stealthily, via Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. Stolen usernames and passwords are loaded up on botnets, which then relentlessly test them on account logon pages. Botnets can test stolen usernames and passwords at scale.

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Alleged SIM Swapper Arrested in California

Krebs on Security

When a victim experiences a fraudulent SIM swap, their phone suddenly has no service and all incoming calls and text messages are sent to the attacker’s device. This includes any one-time codes sent via text message or automated phone call that many companies use to supplement passwords for their online accounts.

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Open APIs: A coming of age

CGI

One of the hottest topics at this year’s Sibos conference in Geneva, Switzerland was open APIs (application programming interfaces), and how their introduction is causing concern among some financial institutions, while offering promising opportunities for early adopters. Defining the data dictionary and data model. How should banks respond?