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Evaluating cyber risk during the holiday season
Fears of data loss, identity theft and fraud are leaving American consumers on edge this holiday season, and they’re prepared to hold their financial institution responsible …

Disruptive technology predictions: 2020 will see the creation of completely connected environments
Mainstream adoption of disruptive technologies in 2020 will finally see data, automation and IoT technologies come together to create connected cities and societies, NTT …

Automated systems: Flag smarter, not everything
Imagine dealing with 1,000s of security alerts a day, whilst simultaneously juggling the tasks that are part of your day-to-day job. Challenging right? This is the current …

5,183 breaches from the first nine months of 2019 exposed 7.9 billion records
According to Risk Based Security’s Q3 2019 Data Breach QuickView Report, the total number of breaches was up 33.3% compared to Q3 2018, with 5,183 breaches reported in …

Network complexity and lack of visibility contribute to misconfigurations and increased risk
Enterprises are slow to abandon manual processes, despite being short staffed, as the lack of automation, coupled with increasing network complexity risk and lack of …

Fraud rates increasing as criminals become more sophisticated
Fraud rates have been skyrocketing, with 90 voice channel attacks occurring every minute in the U.S., Pindrop reveals. Key findings Voice fraud continues to serve as a major …

Should free internet access be considered as a human right?
Free internet access must be considered as a human right, as people unable to get online – particularly in developing countries – lack meaningful ways to influence …

Download: Internal compliance assessment templates
The Comprehensive Security Guide provides security executives with a single document that gathers standardized and easy to use templates of all main compliance frameworks: …

Lateral phishing makes for dangerous waters, here’s how you can avoid getting caught in the net
As companies and consumers have become more aware of phishing, hackers have refined their techniques and are now launching a more advanced form of attack known as lateral …

Researchers discover massive increase in Emotet activity
Emotet had a 730% increase in activity in September after being in a near dormant state, Nuspire discovered. Emotet, a modular banking Trojan, has added additional features to …

The leading challenge facing cloud migration projects is security
60% of organizations misunderstand the shared responsibility model for cloud security and incorrectly believe the cloud provider is responsible for securing privileged access, …

The FBI multi-factor authentication notification that should have never been
While reviewing the recent Private Industry Notification from the FBI about using social engineering and technical attacks to circumvent multi-factor authentication, I was …
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