The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Healthcare and public health, financial services, and IT organizations are frequent targets, although businesses of all sizes can fall victim to these schemes. In fact, ransomware-as-a-service is alive and well, educating would-be offenders on how to undertake an attack and even offering customer support.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 29, 2024

Payment Services Directive (PSD3) PSD3 is an updated version of PSD2 and provides rules on the efficiency and security of digital payments and financial services in the EU. It aims to improve competition and innovation in the financial industry while increasing consumer protection.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

million unique email addresses, NordLocker found, for an array of different apps and services. These included logins for social media, online games, online marketplaces, job-search sites, consumer electronics, financial services, email services, and more. How to protect your data from such kind of malware?

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

In reality, the fraudster initiates a transaction — such as the “forgot password” feature on the financial institution’s site — which is what generates the authentication passcode delivered to the member. To combat this scam Zelle introduced out-of-band authentication with transaction details.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 17, 2021

The summer of 2019 was a heady time for the financial services industry. Capital One’s valuation hit record highs at a time when its senior executives bragged on Wall Street about how the bank’s aggressive adoption of AWS-supplied infrastructure would boost both profits and security. Protecting workloads.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Table of Contents Toggle How Does Cross-Site Scripting Work? 3 Common Types of Cross-Site Scripting Attacks Top 5 Risks Associated with XSS Attacks How to Tell if You’re Vulnerable to XSS Attacks Can You Prevent Cross-Site Scripting? Also, XSS attacks often involve a specific type of code, commonly JavaScript.

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Data Matters

MARCH 28, 2022

implement stronger authentication solutions, such as multi-factor authentication. The Act aims to form a health and privacy commission to research and give official recommendations to Congress and the President on how to modernize the use of health data and revise privacy laws. 45 CFR 164.308(a)(5)(i).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Cloud security tools (cloud security posture management, cloud workload protection, cloud identity and entitlement management), data loss prevention, encryption, and multi-factor authentication (MFA) are the most common technologies used for securing cloud environments. Who’s responsible for encryption and key management?

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Hacking collectives are very proficient at “exploiting weak authentication schemes to gain persistence inside of a targeted network,” Sherman says. In one very recent caper, the attackers targeted the CFO of a financial services firm, as he worked from home, Sherman says. This column originally appeared on Avast Blog.).

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

What authentication methods does the provider support? Additionally, multi-factor authentication (MFA) can further reduce the risk of malicious actors gaining access to sensitive information, even if they manage to steal usernames and passwords. What are the results of the provider’s most recent penetration tests?

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

This article looks at cybersecurity risk management, how to establish a risk management system, and best practices for building resilience. What is Cybersecurity Risk Management? Maintaining Regulatory Compliance. Different organizations have different technology infrastructures and different potential risks.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

However, basic cybersecurity tools and practices, like patching , strong passwords , and multi-factor authentication (MFA), “can prevent 80 to 90% of cyberattacks,” said Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies, during a White House press conference in Sept. Mobile attacks. Other methods.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Mobile payment platforms, like Apple Pay and Google Pay, use advanced technology, like fingerprint authentication and tokenization (in which credit card account numbers are replaced by randomly generated numbers) to provide brick-and-mortar shoppers with an added layer of security. Enable two-factor authentication.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

APRIL 2, 2020

Where appropriate, employers may consider providing specific examples to illustrate how to spot malicious messages or engaging a security firm to send test phishing messages. Multi-Factor Authentication. Employees should be on alert for increased phishing attempts related to the current situation.

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Preservica

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

I recently spoke with the IG director for a global financial services firm about progress in addressing long-term digital information. Leadership is aware that secure, authenticated access to digital information is vital for decision making, meeting compliance and legal requirements, and sustaining client relationships.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 11, 2023

Kolide authenticates devices as they log into Okta. Image credit: Kolide Rather than immediately blocking devices without providing further information, Kolide is intended to show users how to make their devices compliant. ” Additionally, all users must have Kolide on their phone or laptop to authenticate their connection.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

And in May of 2021 Researchers disclosed that the Peloton API authentication was broken. Wilde: Now, for me the storyline was interesting right so when it was reported I think in late January, it was completely open right like this is right no authentication at all because well we didn't tell anybody about it.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

And in May of 2021 Researchers disclosed that the Peloton API authentication was broken. Wilde: Now, for me the storyline was interesting right so when it was reported I think in late January, it was completely open right like this is right no authentication at all because well we didn't tell anybody about it.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JULY 30, 2019

Some states – such as Alabama, Massachusetts and New York (for financial services companies) – prescribe particular requirements of a “reasonable” cybersecurity program. At least nine states expressly extend these requirements to service providers. How to best protect against service provider incidents?

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In its 2021 Threat Force Intelligence Index , IBM reported that manufacturing and financial services were the two industries most at risk for attack, making up 23.2% Fraud.net offers specific solutions for a number of industries, including gaming, financial services, and eCommerce, as well as government organizations.

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Information is Currency

DECEMBER 1, 2017

It is important for records managers to understand how companies are implementing digital solutions to prepare for the upcoming challenges. This book is primarily about digital disruption and how to be prepared for it. My one complaint about the book is that the author didn’t spend more time talking about governance.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2021

billion hitting financial services organizations — an increase of more than 45 percent year-over-year in that sector. billion web app attacks last year, with more than 736 million targeting financial services. billion web attacks globally; 736 million in the financial services sector. A: Everything.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

In part it’s because it’s part of the larger identity problem -- how do we know who’s on the other side of a connection? To use a service, we enter our user name and a password. But this method of authentication is flawed; either hashed or hashed and salted, usernames and passwords can still be stolen and reused.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 28, 2021

Microsoft said it notified the targeted 150 organizations, which included “IT companies (57%), followed by government (20%), and smaller percentages for non-governmental organizations and think tanks, as well as financial services.” Only three of the 150 entities actually got compromised. We’re moving in the right direction.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 24, 2018

The 57 percent rate statistic is the highest of all verticals we measured in this year’s report (others include the healthcare industry, the retail industry, and the financial services industry) or any region surveyed. There also appears to be some confusion over how to best protect critical data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 15, 2024

A new generation of Fintech players, as well as major regulatory changes regarding GDPR, KYC and AML have meant that Financial Supervision continues to evolve in our increasingly digitalised world. A changing financial world Today’s consumers value ease of use - and payments and online financial services are no exception.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 7, 2021

When you have a victim that came from a phishing attack on the financial services industry for example, and then later you obtain that victim’s gaming details, if there is a match on email addresses, username, address, etc. You get an email, click the link, and you’re able to access the application or service.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 21, 2020

For example, this could be adding protection to servers where it might have been absent in the past, or implementing multi-factor authentication for all your externally facing accounts and services. 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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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 29, 2019

With DevOps and API advances steamrolling forward, no one has thought to establish the practice of requiring passwords to authenticate users at the API level. Long-run damage Data Theorem has won customers from the financial services and technology sectors that are routinely creating dozens of new APIs per day. I’ll keep watch.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Below, we will explore API standards in healthcare, automotive, and financial services, but these are only a few examples of industry-specific API standards. Members of FDX are financial service stakeholders that drive the APIs co-chair working groups and task forces and make decisions about how to build and implement the FDX API.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

The IAM vendors took single sign-on to the next level, adding multi-factor authentication and other functionalities. Our customers all have the pain point of wanting to have single sign-on for multiple applications, requiring capabilities like self-service and self-registration,” Curcio told Last Watchdog.

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

The NACD Handbook principles provide directors with a high-level understanding of how to think about cyber issues from the perspective of corporate strategy. Directors should develop at least a high-level familiarity with how data is secured ( e.g. , encryption of critical company data, both while at rest and in motion).

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 14, 2022

More on DDoS protection : How to Stop DDoS Attacks: 6 Tips for Fighting DDoS Attacks. 8 Top DDoS Protection Services. Imperva works across a range of industries, including: eCommerce, energy, financial services, gaming, healthcare, manufacturing and technology. 6 Best Practices to Prevent DDoS Attacks.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 20, 2023

[link] [Heads Up] Microsoft Warns Against a Sophisticated Phishing Attack That Targeted Large Banks and Top Financial Organizations Microsoft describes a sophisticated phishing campaign that targeted large financial organizations. A second-stage phishing campaign followed, with more than 16,000 emails sent to the target's contacts."

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 1, 2021

“From there, the actor was able to distribute phishing emails that looked authentic but included a link that, when clicked, inserted a malicious file used to distribute a backdoor we call NativeZone,” Tom Burt, corporate vice president of customer security and trust at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post late last week.

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Adam Levin

AUGUST 21, 2019

Other programs cover specific topics, like how to navigate the web without picking up a virus, how to recognize social engineering (a fancy term for the hacking practice of luring in unsuspecting victims with links and offers of this or that slice of paradise), safe mobile practice, safe travel practices, safe email practice, and much more.

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