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Breach Level Index – Cyber criminals mining for database gold
The 2016 Breach Level Index Report has been published revealing that cyber criminals managed 1,792 data breaches leading to almost 1.4 billion data records being compromised worldwide during 2016, an increase of 86% compared to 2015. Identity theft was the leading type of data breach in 2016, accounting for 59% of all data breaches. In addition, [...]
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Tesco Bank hack is the wakeup call needed to make mobile security a priority
The recent Tesco Bank hack has left the retail banking world reeling, searching for answers and more effective ways to secure networks against future attacks. It has been revealed weaknesses in the bank’s mobile applications left the door open for cybercriminals to brute force their way in and take more than £2.5 million of customers’ [...]
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Cyber criminals break Chip and PIN
It has bee revealed that cyber criminals have worked out a way to hack the Chip and PIN card system currently being introduced at businesses throughout the US and widely used throughout Europe. Five French citizens have been convicted of manipulating vulnerabilities in the system with a card-switching technique that included substituting the PIN on a [...]
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How the Dridex malware ring was taken down
Thanks to an international law enforcement operation, the ultra-virulent Dridex malware and related botnet have been disrupted as the US’s DOJ targets a Moldovan man in connection with Dridex malware thefts. But what was crucial to the takedown – and for any such future efforts – was the unprecedented level of collaboration among financial services firms [...]
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Thwarting advanced threats with trusted crypto – White Paper
The dangers posed by advanced targeted attacks are real. Enterprises have come up against the limitations of approaches such as intrusion detection and signature-based malware detection. One promising avenue to explore is trusted crypto, which can help ensure that an application, for example, is doing just what its developers intended and has not been tampered [...]
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