PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

To combat this, hackers are looking to gain access to sensitive information by taking a much easier route: using legitimate credentials to go right inside. Unfortunately, mobile threats exist for shoppers whether they’re shopping in a store or on a mobile device from the comfort of their own home or workplace.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2018

RiskIQ ’s 2018 “ The Evil Internet Minute ” investigated the cyber threats that organizations and internet users face every minute. “These attackers target brands and consumers on the open web with tactics like phishing, spinning up malicious mobile apps, hacking third-party suppliers and directly compromising websites.”

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Meeting this fraud threat will require in-depth knowledge of fraudsters’ techniques and advanced technology and customer vigilance, according to Jamie Armistead , vice president and business line leader for banking app Zelle. The economic anxiety associated with the pandemic has made victims especially vulnerable.

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CFO Thought Leader

JANUARY 21, 2024

So it then becomes, What are people doing inside your house? Many security teams are overwhelmed by trying to understand a long list of vulnerabilities and determining how to address them. This is something that Sysdig is very uniquely capable of figuring out because of something that we call “runtime insights.”

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2019

Amid the growing list of cybersecurity concerns businesses must keep on top of, payroll is a growing target for attackers both inside and outside the enterprise. The latest cases of payroll-related cyber incidents reveal the vulnerabilities of the financial process of compensating employees.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2018

Unfortunately, for many corporates, vulnerabilities in their systems — even with the latest technology — won’t be discovered until they’re taken advantage of by cyber attackers. Cybersecurity software firm Rapid7 recently published a report on its efforts to find these vulnerabilities before hackers do.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

vulnerabilities, offers a bit of roadmap across some familiar terrain. It’s also important to realize that, inside the country itself, the people making decisions — i.e., the people at the very top — are highly rational. Addressing The Vulnerabilities. and Iran (there’s that threat of escalation, again). What Iran Wants.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 30, 2017

WatchGuard just released its quarterly Internet Security Report which showed that four out of the top 10 malware threats last quarter were Linux-based. Linux Malware Threats. Linux-based threats showed up in a few forms. Legacy antivirus software has been missing more and more threats, as many as 38 percent. It’s faster.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2016

From hijacked security cameras and video recorders to vulnerable car systems and smart locks, a growing number of connected devices are now at risk of being used as part of a botnet that allows hackers to perpetrate malicious activities. Inside The Mind Of A Hacker. It may be nefarious, but even we have to admit it’s clever.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2019

We were pleased to find out that IoT device companies, across industries, are not willing to compromise the security of their products and are aware of the vulnerabilities that cannot be fully eliminated by static security by design processes,” CEO Moti Shkolnik said. “We Firedome can see threats in real time and respond accordingly.

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The Finance Weekly

JULY 7, 2022

In order to combat the risks involved with expanded data entry points and vulnerable systems, CFOs need to invest in systems, processes, and people in order to minimize the risks and protect the organization. The last step is changing the company culture to ensure that everyone is aware of the cybersecurity threats.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

Just last year, cryptocurrency was lauded as a safe and sophisticated FinTech — even “unhackable,” according to an article in the MIT Technology Review — but with its unique security features have come unique security threats that advance just as fast as countermeasures. Only three weeks ago, hackers stole $4.5

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2016

Dubbed ‘video jacking’ by its masterminds, the attack uses custom electronics hidden inside what appears to be a USB charging station,” according to Krebs. “As

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2017

New research from cybersecurity and application delivery solutions provider Radware revealed that the top motivation behind cyberattacks is ransom, followed by insider threats, political hacktivism and competition. Those trends leave the merchants vulnerable to CNP fraud. Above all else, hackers are all about the money.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2017

He explained that the way MoneyGram looks at information security is to consider what is happening outside its perimeter, at the borders of its perimeter, inside its perimeter as well as what’s happening at the host level, application level and data level. We have state exams for compliance and info security,” McGurk explained.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2016

The Apple iPhone 6s “Live Photo” feature may present a biometric security vulnerability in various mobile banking applications. But Business Insider reported that Johnson was able to gain access to accounts using the iPhone’s Live Photo feature instead. “What you have to do is log in using biometrics.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2018

Neal and Butzer told PYMNTS’ Karen Webster that key shadowing can also be a boon against the looming threat of quantum computing, where common crypto efforts are cracked like eggs with lightning speed. Sacking Quantum Computing Threats. Blockchain , thought by many to be bulletproof, is surprisingly vulnerable to such attacks.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Inside Taco Bell’s Omnichannel Overhaul. That reality is why Mastercard rolled out Threat Scan, a new global service for its banking partners, designed to proactively identify potential vulnerabilities in their authorization systems.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2017

This according to the latest volume of the Internet Security Threat Report published today by software company and security product provider Symantec. To start, ransomware threats escalated globally through 2016 in size, number and kind. GE Fixing Software Bug That Left Electric Grids Vulnerable. That was a close one.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

But the reality is that the greatest security threat facing retail companies, according to a number of recent surveys, often comes from within. In that particular piece of research, 28 percent of respondents acknowledged the possibility of company insiders engaging in digital data theft against their own employers.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2019

The first type comes from bad actors outside the call center who find cloud-based solutions like CCAI to be particularly vulnerable targets. Our security analysts keep tabs on what’s happening and bring that knowledge inside.”. The second major security threat to contact centers is caller fraud. AI is happening ,” he said.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2016

As part of Facebook’s bug bounty program, professional hackers were brought in to see if there were vulnerabilities in its system by seeking out bugs. And because the backdoor access does not exist anymore, the threat (at least, for now) appears to be gone. But from all accounts, those issues seem to have been taken care of.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2016

There’s also been increased scrutiny on the vulnerabilities of 10,000+ financial institutions that run financial transactions across the SWIFT network. To get an industry insider’s take on this subject, PYMNTS recently caught up with Sunil Madhu, CEO and President at Socure.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2017

From Yahoo’s 1 billion users impacted by stolen account data to Ashley Madison’s 37 million users’ details stolen and 400,000 of Italy’s UniCredit customer data being breached, it seems that hackers will always find ways to get inside protected information.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

According to Project Zero research, the security issues led to a “sustained effort to hack the users of iPhones in certain communities over a period of at least two years,” before noting that China also recently hacked Asian telecommunications companies to spy on the Uighurs, as it considers them a security threat. This was never the case.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2016

And where there’s a backdoor vulnerability for hackers to attack, there’s a creepiness factor that can stymie what had seemed a cheerful march toward smart devices. AI is powering bots (they have a little way to go, though, to put the intelligence inside the artificial, fraud detection and prevention systems.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2017

A venture that was once seen as Facebook’s biggest threat is now viewed, five months after its IPO, as toast at the hands of the company that two years earlier was viewed as highly vulnerable because of it.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2020

We look at what we call ‘threat actors’ — which can be anything from nation states to individual cybercriminals to [bank] insiders — and then we look at what the threat objective is,” she said. “It The COVID-19 pandemic will pass, but the threat of financial crime existed long before the outbreak and will continue long after.

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2019

billion people send around 269 billion emails every single day – this type of online communication is vulnerable to phishing attacks. Ransomware attacks increased 21 percent from 2017 to 2018, and malicious insider attacks increased 18 percent during that same timeframe. Much of the problem stems from the rush to adopt new technology.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Addressing the vulnerabilities and the fact that we are hearing so much about ATMs now, Zirkel noted that a number of reasons have converged to make ATMS “top of mind.” So, money is an issue,” he said, “but by and large, these threats are largely preventable” if key practices are embraced. First off, why now?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2017

In fact, he noted 2010 marked the year where the number of devices outstripped the number of people and said that gap “will just keep going up and up and up … You can think of that as a ‘threat surface’ that you are dealing with.”. Along with that threat surface, said Stavridis, there are vectors to be concerned about.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2018

Amid all the headlines detailing the successful data breaches, and vulnerabilities of companies across any number of verticals, we don’t hear much about the successful efforts … to blunt those attacks. As pertains to supply chain risk, 49 percent said they’d prevented attacks there. million over the last 12 months.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Michael Lewis ] 00:06:28 [Speaker Changed] Do you value piles of serum and Solana and F T T and then what and who knows what the hell is inside of Alameda research. People are donating money and they figure out what are the biggest threats to human to humanity. You remain inside of me. That’s right. Tell us about that.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

And I just thought about big data and the real estate community, and then you start seeing the, as more things go online, you’re more vulnerable to attack, and that’s a real problem for the housing market. RITHOLTZ: And to keep in mind, people are concerned about this being a systemic threat. Is that their data source?

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 27, 2023

He also shares an inside look at these conversations —and solicits questions for future discussions — in a newsletter just for HBR subscribers. And when I’m responding to that question, I interpret the word “disrupt” in a positive and a problem sense, a threat and an opportunity. It has to be a humble, exposing, vulnerable story.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 3, 2024

VSquare ) see also Putin used Tucker Carlson, exposing America’s vulnerability to information warfare : Carlson hasn’t just provided a stage for Russia’s despot with his interview. Meanwhile, young gamers are placing their first bets. It was another reminder that propaganda is a critical issue of national security. (

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The biggest threat that had emerged was Walmart — which made it hard for the small mom-and-pops to compete when it came into any town, first in the U.S. That’s forcing retailers of all stripes to figure out ways to get those feet back inside those stores – or at a minimum, those fingers tapping “buy” on their sites.

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