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900,000 Germans knocked offline, as critical router flaw exploited

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The Internet of insecure Things strikes again. As many as 900,000 Deutsche Telekom customers were knocked offline on Sunday and Monday as an attempt was made to hijack broadband routers into a botnet.
Read more in my article on the We Live Security blog.
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Free VASCO white paper: PSD2 – Which strong authentication and transaction monitoring solutions comply?

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Free VASCO white paper: PSD2 - Which strong authentication and transaction monitoring solutions comply?

Graham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the folks at VASCO. Thanks to the great team there for their support!

More than 10,000 customers in 100 countries rely on VASCO to secure access, manage identities, verify transactions, simplify document signing and protect high value assets and systems.

In this VASCO white paper on PSD2, the revised directive on payment services, you will discover:

  • The proposal for draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) for strong customer authentication (SCA) which have been published in August 2016 by the European Banking Authority (EBA).
  • Background information about the draft RTS.
  • Common authentication solutions that are used by many online banking and mobile banking applications today.
  • The actual requirements from the draft RTS.
  • To which extend current authentication solutions meet the requirements in the draft RTS.

Interested in learning more? Download VASCO’s white paper: PSD2 – Which strong authentication and transaction monitoring solutions comply?

If you’re interested in sponsoring my site for a week, and reaching an IT-savvy audience that cares about computer security, you can find more information here.

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Ransomware hits San Francisco transport system. Free rides for all as $73,000 demanded

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San Francisco’s transport system, known as Muni, was hit hard by a ransomware attack this weekend that forced the network to offer free rides to passengers.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
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