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A massive DDoS attack took down the site of the German financial agency BaFin

Security Affairs

A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack took the site of the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) down for some days. It is not clear who is behind the DDoS attack, but the media speculate that it was launched by pro-Russian hacktivists in response to the German financial and military support to Ukraine.

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Work from Everywhere, Securely

Data Breach Today

CyberEdBoard Executive Member, Charmaine Valmonte, guest speaks at ISMG Virtual Cybersecurity Summit Asia: Financial Services Volmonte is VP, IT security and IT infrastructure, Aboitiz Group of Companies. military and the private sector. She has more than 30 years of experience in the U.S.

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The US government sanctioned four entities and one individual for supporting cyber operations conducted by North Korea

Security Affairs

The sanctioned entities conducted operations to steal funds to support the military strategy of the regime. In December 2022, South Korea’s spy agency, the National Intelligence Service, estimated that North Korea-linked threat actors have stolen an estimated 1.5 ” reads the announcement. trillion won ($1.2

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Government By Numbers: Some Interesting Insights

John Battelle's Searchblog

Examples include identity (from driver’s licenses and SSNs to Visa, MasterCard, Amex, and Facebook), delivery of important information and items (from the Post Office to Telcos, Internet, and FedEx and UPS), and protection (outsourcing both prisons and military jobs to private companies). But that’s another story).

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MY TAKE: Why companies and consumers must collaborate to stop the plundering of IoT systems

The Last Watchdog

IoT devices help remotely control our household appliances, power plants, smart buildings, factories, airports, shipyards, trucks, trains and military. In one very recent caper, the attackers targeted the CFO of a financial services firm, as he worked from home, Sherman says. And we’re just getting started.

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NEW TECH: Cequence Security’s new ‘API Sentinel’ helps identify, mitigate API exposures

The Last Watchdog

A great example of this, Keil points out, is the Open Financial Exchange ( OFX , ) the data-stream format that enables wire transfers to be carried out across the Internet. OFX is the financial service industry’s standard for transferring funds,” he says. It’s a series of APIs that allow banks to connect to each other.”

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Q&A: Sophos poll shows how attackers are taking advantage of cloud migration to wreak havoc

The Last Watchdog

Digital commerce from day one has revolved around companies bulling forward to take full advantage of wondrous decentralized, anonymous characteristics of the Internet, which began a military-academic experiment. This added visibility provides companies with a chance to spot the initial stages of any attack much sooner. has done well, too.

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