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Fortune 500 Fiserv Sued by Local Credit Union Over Security Vulnerabilities in Online Banking Platform
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Denver, Co-based managed detection and response (MDR) firm Red Canary has raised $34 million in growth equity funding.
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The UK supermarket chain Morrisons’ legal battle with 5,500 of its own employees over vicarious liability introduces a new threat element to the already complex and confusing demands of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
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The 2018 Internet Crime Report (ICR) shows that both the incidence and cost of internet crime continues to escalate. Complaints rose 14.3% from 2017 to 351,937 in 2018. Associated losses increased by 90.8% from $1,418.7 million to $2,706.4 million over… Continue reading BEC Fraud Losses Grew to $1.3 Billion in 2018: FBI
Brazilian hackers have developed a drive-by download attack leveraging the inherent trust in the Google name. A banking trojan known as LoadPCBanker is deployed using the file cabinets template in Google sites as a delivery vehicle.
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A recent survey from the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC, part of GCHQ), conducted by Ipsos Mori, suggests that 52% consider their most prevalent online security consideration to be protecting their privacy, while 51% consider it to be the lo… Continue reading UK’s NCSC Suggests Automatic Blocking of Common Passwords
Dallas, Texas-based firm EmCare Inc disclosed on Saturday that a number of employees’ email accounts had been accessed, potentially exposing personal information of almost 60,000 people, including 31,000 patients.
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Facebook has admitted to uploading the email contacts of up to 1.5 million users over a period of three years without gaining either the user or the contacts’ prior consent.
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With growing concern over DNS manipulation attacks, details on a new elite state-sponsored DNS hijacking campaign have been released. Called operation Sea Turtle, researchers believe that at least 40 different organizations across 13 countries have bee… Continue reading State-Sponsored Hackers Use Sophisticated DNS Hijacking in Ongoing Attacks
Bad bots are a continuing problem. Good bots, those that perform welcome and benign activities — such as search engine crawlers like Googlebot and Bingbot — are welcome. Bad bots, those that scrape and steal content, mine for competitive data, undert… Continue reading Bad Bots Steal Accounts, Content and Skew the Web Ecosystem