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December 12, 2019 -- Motherboard Tech by Vice is reporting that a group of about 200 hackers have been targeting Nest and Ring cameras and livestreaming the feeds to the Discord server, calling it the NulledCast, a show that "uses the cameras and speakers to talk to and harass their unsuspecting owners".[quote]"In the case of Ring, the research that we've done, it appears that this is a password issue," said Robert Capps, vice-president of market innovation for NuData Security. "[/quote] …

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November 25, 2019 -- Cybersecurity surveys consistently show that the retail industry is one of the worst-prepared for cyber attacks, yet is also one of the most heavily targeted. The holiday shopping season is both the industry’s peak sales period and the timeframe in which it is most heavily preyed upon by cyber criminals.[quote]"Consumers should be especially careful on their mobile phones as more purchases will take place on mobile than on desktop, making the pocket device more attractive to …

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November 8, 2019 -- The government of Nunavut is the latest high profile administration to be the target of ransomware. This brazen form of cybercrime is becoming increasingly common across North America with reports that in the last year, there’s been more than 100 attacks on hospitals, police stations and government offices.[quote]"They’re sending out e-mails with attachments, to hundreds of thousands or millions of users at a time, and people are opening those attachments and it affects their computers. "[/quote] …

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November 4, 2019 -- For a short while starting late last month NCR Corp. blocked Mint and QuickBooks from its Digital Insight banking platform after cybercriminals used the financial data aggregators sites to take over and tap consumer bank accounts.[quote]"Aggregator traffic is always sensitive because financial institutions have a large percentage of their clients using them legitimately.The good news is that banks can leverage data from these aggregators to be able to flag fraudulent behavior. "[/quote] For the complete article, …

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October 29, 2019 -- UniCredit S.p.A., multinational financial business and Italy’s largest bank by assets, has disclosed a data breach incident involving a file containing roughly three million records.[quote]"Personal information, combined with other user data from other breaches and social media, builds a complete profile. In the hands of fraudsters and criminal organisations, these valuable identity sets are usually sold to other cyber-criminals and used for myriad criminal activities, both on the Internet and in the physical world."[/quote] For the …

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