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The financial industry has poured hundreds of millions of dollars worldwide into beefing up its cyber security teams, hiring former intelligence officials from spy agencies, or finding young tech minds from Chaos Computer Club, Europe’s largest hackers…
Continue ReadingHuman-generated phishing attacks involve digital messages to trick people into clicking on a malicious link that installs malware or exposes sensitive data. AI-generated phishing emails are way more dangerous than the ones generated by humans. Now, Hac…
Continue Readingvia www.infosecurity-magazine.com Virtualized Calls a Top Threat for ATO AttacksAccording to the 2019 State of the Call Center Authentication report from TRUSTID, a Neustar company, one of the most exploited areas in a company’s security chain is the c…
Continue ReadingCompanies may be investing more in their cybersecurity defenses, but fraudsters are evolving in their tactics. As such, they’ve discovered that by targeting call centers, they can easily obtain personally identifying information (PII), which is likely …
Continue ReadingThe incident initially had a small impact on the company’s shares, but they quickly recovered. The price of aluminum also increased following news of the incident, but it also started to recover. While Norsk Hydro could not share too much technical inf…
Continue ReadingIt has been reported that the Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) has confirmed that it has been dealing with a ransomware attack on its computer systems. The PFEW was able to respond quickly to an alert from its cyber-security n Saturday 9 t…
Continue ReadingOver 200 million Facebook passwords exposed internally. In a statement released today , Facebook divulged that some user passwords were being stored in readable format on certain internal data storage systems within the company. While the statement doe…
Continue ReadingProviding enterprise network security is becoming an increasingly complex undertaking, as the number of threats emanating from the Internet continues to grow. Hackers continue to find new ways to attack systems and steal data. Dealing with these threat…
Continue Readingsaid £1.2 billion was successfully stolen “through fraud and scams” in 2018. Personal data stolen from businesses was used to perpetrate much of that fraud, according to the report. “The theft of personal and financial data through social engineering a…
Continue ReadingIn the information security field, best practice now looks beyond an organisation’s ability to recover from incidents, to being resilient against them. So how do we define resilience, and what does it look like in practice? Information resilience is a …
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