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When Vendors Open Doors To Cyberattackers

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Organizations are ramping up cybersecurity investments in response to the ever-climbing threat of data breaches and cyberattacks. But all the money in the world to secure an organization’s back office won’t necessarily help safeguard all company data.

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Cybersecurity Trends For 2024 With Alteryx, Valimail, Resilience, Zally, IronVest, iProov

The Fintech Times

. “Identity providers will also continue to be targeted, with modern defensive postures being able to bypass controls like multi-factor authentication while threat actors will continue to target third-party vendors to scale their attacks. In fact, our claims data has shown a significant increase in this activity.

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SenseOn: Confronting Modern Cyber Risks in Financial Services

The Fintech Times

No bank is immune to this threat, with ransomware attacks on financial services increasing from 55 per cent in 2022 to 64 per cent in 2023. The severity of the challenge is demonstrated in IBM ’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023 , which ranks data breaches in the financial sector as second only to the healthcare industry in terms of costs.

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PCI Validated P2PE – 3 Years in North America, What Has Changed?

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In 2016, there were 1,093 data breaches according to the Identity Theft Resource Center – a 40% increase over the 2015 data breach number of 781. Malware was the culprit in the multi-million-dollar Home Depot, Target, Wendy’s and PF Chang’s breaches. Malware and its Role in Data Breaches.

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The Buyers: Consumers, Post-Hacking

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Cyberattacks, ransomware attacks and more have taken businesses and people’s personal information and turned it upside-down over the past few decades. Since the internet came into mainstream use in the 1990s, there have been myriad cyber infiltrations into sensitive data. In 2016 alone, U.S.

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Keeping Third-Party Risk First On The Cybersecurity (Risk) List

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The news that hit Friday afternoon that malware and ransomware were racing across the globe at a breakneck pace, infecting computers at companies across verticals and causing havoc, brought cybersecurity to top of mind, yet again. . Talk about timely.