Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Every organization should be paying attention to the attacks targeting financial services systems.

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Financial Services Internet Internet 58

Security Boulevard

JUNE 28, 2022

IoT and Machine Identity Management in Financial Services. How is IoT changing the financial sector? IoT has already positively impacted the financial sector and will only continue to in the future. IoT has also transformed the financial services sector in a variety of ways: Real-time data. brooke.crothers.

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Financial Services IoT Banking Retail 64

SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Simply put, if MasterCard is the most secure payment services provider, provides additional services, and has results to show, customers will choose them over the competition. The financial sector would do well to take heed; this is the future of cybersecurity, and it is arriving faster than many anticipated. Makes sense, right?

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Cybersecurity Threat Detection Financial Services Cyber threats 113

The State of Security

MAY 31, 2021

The roads and railways that we travel on; the Internet and the mobile networks that connect us; the water that we drink; the healthcare, financial services and security […]… Read More. The post U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 23, 2023

Approov recently did a deep dive study of 650 financial services mobile apps of financial institutions across Europe and the US. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW LW provides consulting services to the vendors we cover.)

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Mobile Digital transformation Financial Services Software 200

Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2020

Cached versions of weblistingsinc.org at archive.org show logos similar to the one featured on the Web Listings mailer, and early versions of the site reference a number of “business partners” in India that also perform SEO services. A cached copy of Mark Scott’s blog Internet Madness from 2011 promotes Web Listings Inc.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2024

New York City based Sisense has more than 1,000 customers across a range of industry verticals, including financial services, telecommunications, healthcare and higher education. ” “We are taking this matter seriously and promptly commenced an investigation,” Dash continued.

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Without a doubt, one of the most game-changing innovations is the Internet of Things (IoT). That said, many industries — perhaps none more so than financial services — recognize that cybersecurity has become more critical, due to factors such as COVID-19, which caused a shift to remote work and the need to secure distributed devices.

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Energy and Utilities Cybersecurity IoT Financial Services 121

The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2021

Some instructive fresh intelligence about how cyber attacks continue to saturate the Internet comes to us from Akamai Technologies. Akamai, which happens to be the Hawaiian word for “smart,” recently released its annual State of the Internet security report. billion web attacks globally; 736 million in the financial services sector.

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Financial Services Passwords Media Accountability 178

The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

India's central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), said it's introducing an exclusive "bank.in" internet domain for banks in the country to combat digital financial fraud.

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Banking Financial Services Phishing Internet 99

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In November 2021, KrebsOnSecurity detailed how Pompompurin abused a vulnerability in an FBI online portal designed to share information with state and local law enforcement authorities, and how that access was used to blast out thousands of hoax email messages — all sent from an FBI email and Internet address.

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Hacking Energy and Utilities Cybercrime Accountability 363

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 11, 2025

Seamlessly combining software with white glove service, 360 Privacy delivers a turnkey digital executive protection platform that automatically scrapes the internet and dark web in real-time to identify, remove and continuously monitor for PII. Today, 360 Privacy serves one-third of Fortune 100 companies as customers.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 27, 2019

-based Synoptek is a managed service provider that maintains a variety of cloud-based services for more than 1,100 customers across a broad spectrum of industries , including state and local governments, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, media, retail and software. When the site was first set up on Dec.

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The Hacker News

MAY 5, 2022

An ElasticSearch server instance that was left open on the Internet without a password contained sensitive financial information about loans from Indian and African financial services. Those records included personal information like name,

Financial Services 98

Financial Services Passwords Internet Internet 98

CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Locked down at home, consumers were abruptly forced to do all their banking over the internet. Web traffic volumes for an Akamai financial services customer before and after the March 2020 lockdown (the green bars represent daily customer traffic and the blue line represents web performance) To read this article in full, please click here

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Banking Financial Services Retail Internet 104

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

But as financial institutions have had to adapt to an increasingly digital world, it is imperative they have security solutions in place that not only provide security for users and data, but also ensure compliance with policies and regulations. Addressing financial services’ key pain points. Enabling the future of banking.

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Digital transformation Banking Financial Services Internet 129

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 22, 2025

According to the 2025 Imperva Bad Bot Report, titled The Rapid Rise of Bots and The Unseen Risk for Business , automated traffic overtook human activity for the first time in ten years, making up more than half (51%) of all internet traffic last year. This trend has been driven, for the most part, by the rapid adoption of AI and LLMs.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Some 11,800 computer software companies, 10,000 IT services vendors, 5,500 health care organizations and 3,200 financial services firms continue to maintain on-premises Exchange email servers, according to this report from Enlyft.

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Marketing Financial Services Ransomware Software 222

Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Sophisticated Internet of Things (IoT) technologies transformed the cybersecurity systems in financial services. They’re continuously evolving and improving. Take credit cards as an example—commercial banks significantly cut the risk of skimming by replacing magstripe cards with chip-and-PIN cards.

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IoT Financial Services Banking Internet 75

Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2020

Malicious Chrome browser extensions were used in a massive surveillance campaign aimed at users working in the financial services, oil and gas, media and entertainment, healthcare, government organizations, and pharmaceuticals. The tech giant removed over 100 Chrome browser extensions from the official Web Store.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A financial cybercrime group calling itself the Disneyland Team has been making liberal use of visually confusing phishing domains that spoof popular bank brands using Punycode , an Internet standard that allows web browsers to render domain names with non-Latin alphabets like Cyrillic. com — which was created to phish U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 7, 2020

Zoosk doesn’t want to block their customers from trying to find a mate; neither does a financial services firm or a retailer want to unnecessarily block a transaction and create customer dissatisfaction. “So Only then will leading-edge technologies make their fullest impact. I’ll keep watch.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The Internet of Things (IoT) has come a long, long way since precocious students at Carnegie Melon University installed micro-switches inside of a Coca-Cola vending machine so they could remotely check on the temperature and availability of their favorite beverages. Related: Companies sustain damage from IoT attacks That was back in 1982.

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IoT Healthcare Internet Internet 279

Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2025

Whether through offensive operations or scanning activity, Unit 29155 cyber actors are known to target critical infrastructure and key resource sectors, including the government services, financial services, transportation systems, energy, and healthcare sectors of NATO members, the EU, Central American, and Asian countries.

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Cyber Attacks Government Healthcare Financial Services 89

SecureWorld News

APRIL 14, 2025

Industry-specific organizations also exist for key economic sectors like financial services , healthcare, energy, and transportation to serve as hubs for exchanging threat intelligence data, incident reports, and best practices. These generally shed light on nation-state actors , APTs, and attempts at cyber espionage or cyber warfare.

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Media Social Engineering Malware Financial Services 73

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2021

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. Mirai Still on the Loose.

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DDOS Financial Services IoT Healthcare 142

The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2019

Turn the corner into 2019 and we find Citigroup, CapitalOne, Wells Fargo and HSBC Life Insurance among a host of firms hitting the crisis button after their customers’ records turned up on a database of some 24 million financial and banking documents found parked on an Internet-accessible server — without so much as password protection.

Cyber Risk 147

Cyber Risk Risk Financial Services Banking 147

Hacker Combat

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The penalized companies are Investment Services, Advisor Networks, Financial Specialists, Investment Advisers, and Advisors, all under the Cetera group. Investment Research Advisors and Investment Research from Cambridge Investment were affected, as well as KMS, a registered financial services provider based in Seattle. .

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Security Affairs

JULY 27, 2021

Experts found three new zero-day flaws in the Kaseya Unitrends service and warn users to avoid exposing the service to the Internet. Security researchers warn of three new zero-day vulnerabilities in the Kaseya Unitrends service. An employee published the alert on an online analyzing platform. ” reads the advisory.

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Backups Financial Services Internet Internet 113

The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Hear about the smart toaster that got attacked three times within an hour after its IP address first appeared on the Internet? million and grown to 42 employees, winning customers in leading media firms, financial services companies and government agencies in the Nordics. I’ll keep watching and reporting. Talk more soon.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2024

Boyle Boyle pointed out how companies across all industries — healthcare, financial services, energy and consumer goods – could immediately leverage this new approach in way that would allow them to begin to extract much more useful insights from the data lakes of consumer data swelling somewhat randomly.

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Data privacy Financial Services Healthcare Advertising 263

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 14, 2022

Financial services, health, home security, governance and all other mission critical services are now provided online. More than 96% of all internet users have never read a single privacy policy text. But these accounts are not all about networking and games. Related: What happened to privacy in 2021. And why should they?

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Artificial Intelligence Mobile Technology Accountability 223

Krebs on Security

MAY 3, 2019

This was ineffective because residential street addresses can be readily found on the internet and through other public sources. Moreover, this information can be guessed through a trial-and-error process. Most alarmingly, this security control was purely illusory.

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Banking Accountability Passwords Technology 235

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 17, 2020

This was possible because APIs – the conduits that enable two software applications to exchange information – are open and decentralized, exactly like the Internet. APIs come into play again, when each new business and consumer app is put into service. OFX is the financial service industry’s standard for transferring funds,” he says.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 1, 2019

What’s more, in the internet-centric, consumer-driven world we live in, the lines between work-related duties and personal pursuits, which we increasingly access via our mobile devices, have become hopelessly blurred. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be.

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Social Engineering Engineering Phishing Banking 166

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The modern internet's interconnected nature also threatens data security. According to Imperva’s State of API Security in 2024 report, APIs—the rules allowing software applications to communicate with each other—now account for a staggering 71% of internet traffic. The result?

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IT Security Guru

JUNE 17, 2024

Therefore, keeping open access to internet browsing for employees in most roles (such as those working or studying in educational institutions, to give just one example) is acceptable and encouraged, because of the net positives it creates. This speaks to a wider issue, regarding the security supply chain.

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Financial Services Manufacturing Social Engineering Risk 89