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Cloudflare: Mirai Botnet Launched Record-Breaking DDoS Attack

eSecurity Planet

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. Growing IoT Will Fuel More Attacks. Mirai Still on the Loose.

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What is a Cyberattack? Types and Defenses

eSecurity Planet

There are many types of cyberattacks , with top trends for 2022 including mobile attacks, ransomware, COVID-related scams and hacks, zero-click attacks , malicious QR codes , phishing , cryptojacking , and IoT malware attacks, among others. Capital markets, insurance, financial services, and banking are now online. Ransomware.

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Conversational AI use cases for enterprises

IBM Big Data Hub

Banking and financial services: AI-driven solutions are making banking more accessible and secure, from assisting customers with routine transactions to providing financial advice and immediate fraud detection. Conversational AI is also making significant strides in other industries such as education, insurance and travel.

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A consumer perspective on FinTech disruption (part 3)

CGI

As FinTech firms aggressively and innovatively push their way into the financial services space, established banks are increasingly focused on effectively responding to the competitive threat. They’re educating customers on processes, pricing and value propositions and, in turn, building stronger customer relationships.

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#ModernDataMasters: Henrik Liliendahl, Chairman & CTO, Product Data Lake

Reltio

I was educated in computer engineering but my first job was on the business side. We will see scope-creep from IoT into data management – it will have a huge impact. We didn’t even have a computer at that school so the whole class was about things drawn on the blackboard. Since then I’ve bounced back and forth between IT and business.

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An Approach to Cybersecurity Risk Oversight for Corporate Directors

Data Matters

In particular, in a blog article entitled, The NIST Cybersecurity Framework and the FTC , dated August 31, 2016, the FTC provided guidance suggesting that the NIST Cybersecurity Framework is consistent with the agency’s approach followed since the late 1990s in over 60 law enforcement actions and in business education guidance.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: DEF CON Villages

ForAllSecure

And, there’s thirty more villages including Girls Hack Village, the Voting Machine Hacking village, the IoT Village, and the Bio Hacking village. And by de I'm an analyst at Javelin strategy and research where I do security risk and fraud for the financial services industry. You will learn cool new things.