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“Cryptoassets are here to stay”: EU Authorities to Provide Guidance on Cryptocurrencies and ICOs

Data Matters

As part of the public discussion, the Commission, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the European Banking Authority (EBA) and the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) were present to provide their thoughts. Firms interested in cryptoassets should watch for EU regulatory guidance later this year.

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SHARED INTEL: Akamai reports web attack traffic spiked 62 percent in 2020 — all sectors hit hard

The Last Watchdog

Akamai, which happens to be the Hawaiian word for “smart,” recently released its annual State of the Internet security report. billion hitting financial services organizations — an increase of more than 45 percent year-over-year in that sector. billion web attacks globally; 736 million in the financial services sector.

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LinkedIn to IPO in 2010? Facebook to Find a Business Model? | ZDNet

Collaboration 2.0

Google unplugs Windows Google decides that a security invasion from China was the last straw and bans the use of. Oliver has dual US/UK citizenship and has worked on Asian, European and American global enterprise collaboration, and spoken at various conferences. strategy, tactics, technology decisions and roll out.

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Discovery of New Internet of Things (IoT) Based Malware Could Put a New Spin on DDoS Attacks

Data Protection Report

As we warned a year ago, we expect that these type of widespread outages may be more common in the future because of security weakness related to the Internet of Things, coupled with increased adoption of IoT devices in the United States and worldwide. Documenting Security and Preventative Measures. Before an Attack.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: DEF CON Villages

ForAllSecure

Anyone who has anyone in the information security community is usually melting under the hot Nevada sun. And by de I'm an analyst at Javelin strategy and research where I do security risk and fraud for the financial services industry. Vamosi: Welcome to the hacker mind and original podcast from for all secure.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 22 – 28 April 2024

IT Governance

Keyboard app vulnerabilities reveal keystrokes to network eavesdroppers Security researchers have identified critical security vulnerabilities in Cloud-based pinyin keyboard apps from Baidu, Inc., We identified certain accounts that we believe are affiliated with the Spy.pet website, which we have subsequently banned.”

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #22 [Eye on Fraud] A Closer Look at the Massive 72% Spike in Financial Phishing Attacks

KnowBe4

That's right – the financial services industry, at least according to cybersecurity vendor Armorblox's 2023 Email Security Threat Report. Blog post with links: [link] [Live Demo] Ridiculously Easy Security Awareness Training and Phishing Old-school awareness training does not hack it anymore. Yup – shoe store.