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Business ID Theft Soars Amid COVID Closures

Krebs on Security

For 2020, the company estimates an overall 258 percent spike in the crime. To prove ownership over the hijacked firms, they hire low-wage image editors online to help fabricate and/or modify a number of official documents tied to the business — including tax records and utility bills. ” PHANTOM OFFICES. .

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The Scammers’ Playbook: How Cybercriminals Get Ahold of Your Data

eSecurity Planet

billion in reported losses, up from 2020’s 791,790 complaints and $4.2 Finance and insurance finished a close second at 22.4%. Finance and insurance companies were particularly vulnerable to the sort of phishing scams we’re talking about. In 2020 alone, 79 ransomware attacks were conducted against government entities in the U.S.,

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List of Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in August 2022 – 97 Million Records Breached

IT Governance

Crypto firm Nomad loses nearly $200 million in bridge hack (unknown) Solana and Slope confirm wallet security breach (8,000) Malaysian payment gateway platform iPay88 suffers data leak (unknown) Ypsilanti-area utility customers’ bank information exposed (2,00) Chester Upland schools victim of BEC scheme to the tune of $3 million (unknown).

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The Ongoing Cyber Threat to Critical Infrastructure

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The threat of attacks against Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) – energy, utilities, telecommunications, and transportation – is now front of mind for many. From the ransomware attack that compromised a major U.S. gas pipeline in 2021 to the rise of nation-state attacks, critical infrastructure organizations are under siege.

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How Open Liberty and IBM Semeru Runtime proved to be the perfect pillars for Primeur

IBM Big Data Hub

Since its launch in 2020, DATA ONE has been successfully adopted by multinational companies across sectors, including insurance and banking, automotive, energy and utilities, manufacturing, logistics and telco.

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Infosource Global Capture & IDP Vertical Market Analysis 2022-2023 Update

Info Source

In our vertical market sizing and analysis, we cover horizontal use cases e.g., accounting, HR management, as well as vertical specific use cases e.g., bank account opening, mortgage processing and insurance claims processing. The major Capture & IDP use cases in the Insurance sector also relate to Case Management.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in December 2020 – 148 million records breached

IT Governance

What else would you expect from the final month of 2020 than the highest number of publicly disclosed incidents we’ve ever recorded? That brings the total for 2020 to more than 20 billion. The post List of data breaches and cyber attacks in December 2020 – 148 million records breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog.