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Fintech News | April 22, 2020 -- Many companies in the biometrics, digital identity, and cybersecurity space have shared predictions for 2020 with Biometric Update, touching on many of the key themes of the past year, and reflecting the wealth of opportunity, as well as the anxieties at play in the industry."While an attacker can use deepfake techniques to convincingly emulate the likeness of an individual, it still difficult to digitally impersonate ones voice without fairly obvious imperfections. Deepfake audio …

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Independent Banker | April 1, 2020 -- Cybercriminals are taking advantage of ransomware’s low barrier of entry to compromise data and networks from banks, service providers and even customers. But experts say community banks can protect themselves with education, data management and security procedures."Ransomware attacks continue to occur at an alarming frequency because attackers know they are effective, and they know that if a system is successfully compromised, a victim will generally pay the ransom, according to Robert Capps, vice …

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Information Security Buzz | March 26, 2020 -- It has been reported that hackers have breached the website of Tupperware, a US company known for its plastic food container products, and placed malicious code on its website to collect payment card details from site buyers. The malicious code has been running on the Tupperware homepage for at least five days, according to security researchers."Web skimmers or Magecart scripts work by taking advantage of an infrastructure vulnerability caused by misconfiguration. The …

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Information Security Buzz | March 23, 2020 -- An unsecured database has led to the exposure of customer data at Rogers Communications, a Canadian ISP."While this breach appears to limit exposed data to name, address, email, and some account information, consumers who were subject the disclosure should be on guard for fraudulent email and phone calls that may attempt to solicit more confidential information. Cybercriminals leverage this type of data to build synthetic identities or take over an existing account …

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Computing | March 19, 2020 -- In the current study, the researchers at the University of York tested five password managers and were able to fool two of them into revealing a password. According to researchers, those password managers used weak criteria to find out whether an app is genuine or not."Security research like this, that finds potential vulnerabilities, is critical to making businesses and consumers safer by allowing potential weaknesses to be addressed in a responsible way, before they …

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