Data Protector

DECEMBER 31, 2016

I’ve recently had a quiet year on the blogging front – my professional duties have prevented me from playing a more active role on the Internet during this year than I would have liked, but that is set to change in 2017. They're not definitive statements of the law that must be ruthlessly adhered to. Thats is it for this year’s predictions.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 1, 2021

Financial services giant Intuit this week informed 1.4 Intuit says the change is tied to an “exciting” and “free” new service that will let millions of small business employees get easy access to employment and income verification services when they wish to apply for a loan or line of credit.

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Info Source

OCTOBER 12, 2018

percent year on year, from $499 billion in 2017 according to Gartner. For example, ChatBot technology is becoming particularly popular in banking for customer service, by cutting down handling times and accelerating payments processing, enabling better customer interaction by eliminating errors and increasing efficiency.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2023

“The Australian and New Zealand Nissan Corporation and Financial Services (“Nissan”) advises that its systems have been subject to a cyber incident. In December 2017, Nissan Finance Canada was hacked , personal information of 1.13 ” reads the statement published by the company on its website. .”

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2023

Iran-linked threat actor Tortoiseshell targeted shipping, logistics, and financial services companies in Israel with watering hole attacks. Five out of eight compromised websites were hosted by the uPress hosting service, which was hit by a cyber attack carried out by the Iranian group Emennet Pasargad5, “Hackers of Savior”, in 2020.

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Info Source

DECEMBER 5, 2017

With customers in nearly every industry including government, education, financial services, manufacturing and health care, Laserfiche offers solutions tailored to organizations’ needs, and the expertise and personalized service that drive customer success. and Canada.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2024

The Australian and New Zealand Nissan Corporation and Financial Services (“Nissan”) advises that its systems have been subject to a cyber incident. In December 2017, Nissan Finance Canada was hacked , personal information of 1.13 reads the statement published by the company on its website.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2019

FlawedGrace is a full-featured RAT that we first observed in November 2017.” ” The TA505 group was first spotted by Proofpoint back 2017, it has been active at least since 2015 and targets organizations in financial and retail industries. ” reads the analysis published by Proofpoint. The support for “.bit”

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Info Source

MAY 30, 2024

Ralph Gammon, Senior Analyst at Infosource May 2024 Ripcord first came onto our radar in 2017, most notably for innovative high-volume scanners, but it also had some early artificial intelligence (AI) powered technology for providing cloud-based Capture, Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) and Content Services to its outsourcing customers.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 31, 2024

The rules would ensure people can obtain their own financial data at no cost, control who it’s shared with and choose who they do business with in the financial industry. The best way for financial services firms to meet the CFPB’s rules would be to apply the decoupling principle broadly.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 1, 2023

Dizzion, an innovator in the Managed Desktop as a Service (DaaS) industry, hosts its managed desktop offering on IBM Cloud to help enterprises manage their workforce. With its decades-long history of delivering electronic design innovation and offering hosted design services, Cadence Design Systems, Inc.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 25, 2024

In 2017, allegations surfaced that Kaspersky had collaborated with Russian intelligence agencies in the past. These factors ultimately led to the 2017 ban on Kaspersky products for use by U.S. The sanctioned individuals will also be barred from engaging in any financial transactions with U.S. Additionally, some U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 25, 2022

” According to the Native American Financial Services Association (NAFSA), a trade group in Washington, D.C. Or how about not learning of the fraudulent loan until it gets handed off to collection agents? Jim says MSF assured him it would, and the loan was never issued. Then on Nov. Then on Nov.

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Collibra

OCTOBER 31, 2023

With every financial services organization focused on making better and faster decisions, data professional and business leaders are eager to better understand how AI can facilitate their strategic goals. Financial services orgs, especially those in capital markets, frequently has been on the forefront of generative AI investment.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 24, 2022

On October 18, 2022, the New York State Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) announced that EyeMed Vision Care LLC (“EyeMed”) agreed to a $4.5 The NYDFS’s consent order notes that EyeMed’s failure to comply with the Cybersecurity Regulation left EyeMed vulnerable to threat actors.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

34-92806 ; and In the Matter of KMS Financial Services, Inc. , Release No. According to the SEC order against KMS Financial Services Inc., On August 30, 2021, the U.S. These failures led to email account takeovers that exposed personal information of thousands of customers at each firm. 34-92807 , August 30, 2021.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The experts were able to enumerate the C2s and targets of multiple distinct Chaos clusters, some of which were employed in recent DDoS attacks against the gaming, financial services and technology, and media and entertainment industries. .” reads the analysis published by Lumen Technologies. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

“This activity was typically only within reach of intelligence agencies or surveillance contractors, but now Motherboard has confirmed that this capability is much more widely available in the hands of financially-driven cybercriminal groups, who are using it to empty bank accounts. ” said National Cyber Security Centre spokesman.

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Collibra

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Regulators are focusing on the data relationships financial services organizations have with third parties, including how well personal information is being managed. There are several areas that the international financial services regulatory community is engaged in that touch on third party personal data relationships.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Companies should take note of two imminent developments in New York in the area of cybersecurity regulation: enforcement of the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) Cybersecurity Regulation (Regulation) and the effective date of the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act (SHIELD Act or Act).

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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.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The top five industry sectors notifying data breaches are: 1) health care, 2) insurance, 3) public administrations and defense, 4) telecoms and 5) financial services. In six months only, the DPA received: 3599 information requests (compared to 2145 information requests in 2017). The other released figures are also remarkable.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The sanctioned entities are Cetera (Advisor Networks, Investment Services, Financial Specialists, Advisors, and Investment Advisers), Cambridge Investment Research (Investment Research and Investment Research Advisors), and KMS Financial Services. ” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Healthcare and public health, financial services, and IT organizations are frequent targets, although businesses of all sizes can fall victim to these schemes. In fact, ransomware-as-a-service is alive and well, educating would-be offenders on how to undertake an attack and even offering customer support. Prevalence.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

The American group of insurance and financial services companies State Farm disclosed a credential stuffing attack it has suffered in July. The American group of insurance and financial services companies State Farm revealed that it was the victim of a credential stuffing attack it has suffered in July. billion per month.

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Data Protection Report

APRIL 22, 2021

On April 14, 2021, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) announced a $3 million settlement with insurance company National Securities Corp. Readers may recall that NYDFS’ cybersecurity regulation went into effect in March of 2017. NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation. The second incident occurred in March of 2019.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2019

The bug affected the OCA’s Diameter Signalling Router component and its Communications Services Gatekeeper. The flaw also affected the Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure, the Fusion Middleware MapViewer, and four three Oracle Retail components. ” reads the d escription provided by.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

The conference features a variety of topics and sessions regarding all aspects of financial services, from cryptocurrency to banking. Three topics that piqued my interest at the 2017 show included authentication, blockchain and digital payments. Authentication. And as I mentioned earlier: user experience is driving business.

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Data Protection Report

JUNE 2, 2021

On May 13, 2021, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) announced a $1.8 Readers may recall that NYDFS’ cybersecurity regulation went into effect in March of 2017. Readers may recall that NYDFS’ cybersecurity regulation went into effect in March of 2017. NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation.

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Data Matters

JUNE 24, 2021

In September 2017, then-SEC Chairman Jay Clayton issued a public statement that provided an overview of the SEC’s approach to cybersecurity and underscored it as a priority for the SEC. 20, 2017). SEC Statement and Guidance on Public Company Cybersecurity Disclosures. enable companies to identify cybersecurity risks and incidents.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The cybersecurity regulation ( 23 NYCRR 500 ) adopted by the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) is nearly two years old. The 2017 bill, the first of its kind, will be fully implemented as of March 1st, 2019. Even though these regulations only apply to New York, financial institutions across the U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 6, 2018

In the same vein, businesses at large can use the intelligence cycle as a model to detect and deter any attacks coming from foreign intelligence services. Per a 2017 CNN source , nearly 100,000 agents from as many as 80 nations operate within the United States with the intention of targeting businesses to gain access to key U.S.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

EternalBlue is a Windows exploit created by the US National Security Agency (NSA) and used in the 2017 WannaCry ransomware attack. Its exploitation can have serious consequences, resulting in data breaches, financial losses, operational disruption, and reputation damage to organizations. What is the EternalBlue vulnerability?

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eDiscovery Daily

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Areas such as financial services, technology, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, and energy industries all needed systems with these two factors. , which we covered as part of a webcast on November 28 of last year. Tom’s overview is split into six parts, so we’ll cover each part separately. How Blockchain Works.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The directive builds upon the foundations laid by the original Payment Services Directive (PSD1 or Directive 2007/64/EC), which opened up the European banking and financial services market nearly a decade ago. Let's explore the details further. PSD2 hinges on a critical connection between retailers, fintechs, and banks.

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ARMA International

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Nineteen percent of RIM programs report into IT (up from 15% in 2017), and 28% into legal (up from 18.5% in 2017), with the remainder reporting into senior administrative roles, compliance, corporate services, or finance teams. In 2017, only 25% of respondents reported they had re-organized their programs.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Authorities in the United States and United Kingdom today levied financial sanctions against seven men accused of operating “ Trickbot ,” a cybercrime-as-a-service platform based in Russia that has enabled countless ransomware attacks and bank account takeovers since its debut in 2016. companies and government entities.

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