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Fraudsters are Turning to Third Party Vendors as New Means of Attack as Firms Improve Cybersecurity

The Fintech Times

Using the world’s largest proprietary risk and threat intelligence dataset, SecurityScorecard , the cybersecurity analyser, studied cybersecurity breaches across the UK’s 100 largest companies by market capitalisation, releasing a comprehensive analysis of the landscape of the FTSE 100 in the UK. None of them received a C rating or below.

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What Bank of America is doing for customers after data breach

Bank Automation

Bank of America is working to control the fallout following an October data breach at third-party vendor Infosys McCamish Solutions.

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SecurityScorecard Lands $27M To Expand Third-Party Vendor Security Ratings

PYMNTS

Companies that are poorly rated are five-and-a-half times more likely to be breached than those with a relatively high rating of “A” or “B.” The granular info gleaned can delve into risks, such as using out-of-date (and thus vulnerable) software to create documents or whether a firm’s site is configured to combat denial of service attacks.

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Breach Of Mastercard Loyalty Program Affected 90K Germans’ Data

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Belgian and German data protection regulators were notified by Mastercard of a possible data breach, Bloomberg reported on Friday (Aug. The breach was first noticed on Aug. The loyalty program, Priceless Specials, was operated by a third-party service provider and was shut down after the company first became aware of the breach.

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Third-Party Data Breaches On The Rise In The U.S.

PYMNTS

15) the results of the third annual Ponemon Institute’s “Data Risk in the Third-Party Ecosystem” study, which found that 59 percent of companies surveyed said they have experienced a data breach caused by their vendors or third parties. Opus said that in the U.S.,

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Ticketmaster Breach Highlights Supplier Cybersecurity Risks

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disclosed it had suffered a data breach, the company also revealed the cause of the cybersecurity incident: a third-party vendor. As the latest breach to hit a major, global conglomerate, the attack on Ticketmaster highlights the growing threat of cyber-weaknesses down a company’s supply chain.

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Wendy’s Confirms Payments Breach

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It took longer than expected from a company in the business of delivering its product quickly, but Wendy’s has at last opened up about getting hit with a credit card breach. Rumors of a possible breach at a number of the fast food chain’s locations were first reported (by Krebs on Security) back in January.

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