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Healthcare IT News | September 30, 2020 -- With criminals taking advantage of the COVID-19 crisis, security experts show how health systems can respond to a cyber crisis at the same time.Rapid IT deployments, newly launched telehealth programs, sophisticated and fear-based phishing techniques, untested platforms and employees shifting to a work-from-home model have combined to make healthcare systems especially juicy targets for bad actors. For the complete article, go here.

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CardNotPresent | September 24, 2020 -- Attacks that look like humans are increasingly plaguing fraud professionals—a trend that is likely here to stay, according to new analysis from NuData Security.The antifraud technology company’s recent 2020 H1: Fraud Risk at a Glance report looked at data and changes across its global online network during the first six months of this year. The analysis reveals that “human-looking or sophisticated attacks, those that focus on quality instead of volume, continue to increase. For …

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Back End News | September 22, 2020 --Financial institutions (FIs) receive the highest percentage of sophisticated attacks amongst all industries, with 96%, up from 90% in 2019, according to the report of NuData Security, a behavioral biometrics company based in Canada.The financial industry is among, if not the top, target of bad actors considering the type of client data it posses. With this in mind, banks and other financial institutions increased their security spending and heightened security posture making it …

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Channel Futures | July 24, 2020 --In last week’s attack, malicious hackers went after dozens of high-profile accounts to promote cryptocurrency scams. According to Twitter, it was a coordinated social engineering attack. And it was by people who successfully accessed internal systems and tools by targeting Twitter employees.According to Robert Capps, "Concerns go beyond the attacks Twitter experienced recently. The use of internal administrative tools to launch attacks, instead of attacking individual account holders, has broad value to cyber criminals, …

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Supermarket News | July 24, 2020 --Investigation cites ‘credential stuffing’ following reports of user account information being sold on ‘dark web’."I have been responsible for organizations that had similar attacks,” Capps said in an interview. “In those cases, they aren’t compromises of the systems themselves. They aren’t breaking into the firewall. They aren’t looking for vulnerabilities in the site. They are literally using stolen credential information that’s available on the Internet, and they’re using different techniques to validate those credentials …

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