Tag: finance
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TDL 007 – Cyber Warriors Digital Shadows: Insights from Canada’s Cybersecurity Leader
Tags: ai, awareness, backup, breach, browser, business, cio, ciso, communications, conference, control, corporate, country, cryptography, cyber, cybersecurity, dark-web, data, data-breach, defense, dns, email, encryption, finance, government, healthcare, identity, incident, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, jobs, law, leak, linux, malicious, mfa, mitigation, network, organized, phone, privacy, ransom, ransomware, RedTeam, resilience, risk, risk-management, router, service, startup, strategy, supply-chain, switch, tactics, technology, theft, threat, tool, training, windowsSummary In this episode of The Defender’s Log, host David Redekop interviews Sami Khoury, the Senior Official for Cybersecurity for the Government of Canada. With a career spanning 33 years at the Communication Security Establishment (CSE), Khoury shares how a coincidental job application blossomed into a lifelong passion for national security. Khoury emphasizes that modern…
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Prosper Market Data Breach Affects 17.6M Individuals
Breach Notification Service Details Peer-to-Peer Lending Marketplace Victim Count. Hackers appear to have stolen personal information pertaining to more than 17 million individuals from peer-to-peer lending marketplace Prosper, including Social Security numbers, contact information and some income and financial details, says the Have I Been Pwned breach notification service. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to…
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Prosper disclosed a data breach impacting 17.6 million accounts
Threat actors stole personal data, including names, IDs, and financial details from Prosper, affecting over 17M users. Prosper is a U.S.-based peer-to-peer lending platform that connects individual borrowers with investors. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in San Francisco, Prosper allows people to apply for personal loans online, while investors can fund portions of those loans…
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Prosper disclosed a data breach impacting 17.6 million accounts
Threat actors stole personal data, including names, IDs, and financial details from Prosper, affecting over 17M users. Prosper is a U.S.-based peer-to-peer lending platform that connects individual borrowers with investors. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in San Francisco, Prosper allows people to apply for personal loans online, while investors can fund portions of those loans…
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Prosper disclosed a data breach impacting 17.6 million accounts
Threat actors stole personal data, including names, IDs, and financial details from Prosper, affecting over 17M users. Prosper is a U.S.-based peer-to-peer lending platform that connects individual borrowers with investors. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in San Francisco, Prosper allows people to apply for personal loans online, while investors can fund portions of those loans…
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CISOs face quantum leap in prioritizing quantum resilience
Tags: apple, attack, ciso, cloud, computer, computing, crypto, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, encryption, finance, governance, government, Hardware, healthcare, infrastructure, nist, resilience, risk, service, software, supply-chain, technology, threat, vulnerabilityState of migration: Encryption underpins the security of everything from healthcare records to government data and e-commerce transactions.But just 8.5% of SSH servers currently support quantum-safe encryption.TLS 1.3 adoption, currently at 19%, also trails older, quantum-vulnerable versions, according to a recent study by Forescout.Other experts paint a more optimistic picture of PQC deployment since NIST…
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CISOs face quantum leap in prioritizing quantum resilience
Tags: apple, attack, ciso, cloud, computer, computing, crypto, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, encryption, finance, governance, government, Hardware, healthcare, infrastructure, nist, resilience, risk, service, software, supply-chain, technology, threat, vulnerabilityState of migration: Encryption underpins the security of everything from healthcare records to government data and e-commerce transactions.But just 8.5% of SSH servers currently support quantum-safe encryption.TLS 1.3 adoption, currently at 19%, also trails older, quantum-vulnerable versions, according to a recent study by Forescout.Other experts paint a more optimistic picture of PQC deployment since NIST…
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CISOs face quantum leap in prioritizing quantum resilience
Tags: apple, attack, ciso, cloud, computer, computing, crypto, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, encryption, finance, governance, government, Hardware, healthcare, infrastructure, nist, resilience, risk, service, software, supply-chain, technology, threat, vulnerabilityState of migration: Encryption underpins the security of everything from healthcare records to government data and e-commerce transactions.But just 8.5% of SSH servers currently support quantum-safe encryption.TLS 1.3 adoption, currently at 19%, also trails older, quantum-vulnerable versions, according to a recent study by Forescout.Other experts paint a more optimistic picture of PQC deployment since NIST…
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Auction house Sotheby’s disclosed a July data breach
Sotheby’s reported a July 24 breach exposing customer and financial data; it took two months to assess the stolen information and affected individuals. Sotheby’s reported a data breach that exposed customer information, including financial details. The company discovered the security breach on July 24, and investigators spent two months determining what data was stolen and…
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Auction house Sotheby’s disclosed a July data breach
Sotheby’s reported a July 24 breach exposing customer and financial data; it took two months to assess the stolen information and affected individuals. Sotheby’s reported a data breach that exposed customer information, including financial details. The company discovered the security breach on July 24, and investigators spent two months determining what data was stolen and…
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Auction giant Sotheby’s says data breach exposed financial information
Major international auction house Sotheby’s is notifying individuals of a data breach incident on its systems where threat actors stole sensitive information, including financial details. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/auction-giant-sothebys-says-data-breach-exposed-financial-information/
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Auction giant Sotheby’s says data breach exposed financial information
Major international auction house Sotheby’s is notifying individuals of a data breach incident on its systems where threat actors stole sensitive information, including financial details. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/auction-giant-sothebys-says-data-breach-exposed-financial-information/
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Foster Innovation with Strong NHI Security Measures
Are Your Machine Identities Truly Secure? The notion of securing Non-Human Identities (NHIs) often takes center stage. Where machine identities become more prevalent across industries, managing these identities and their related secrets has never been more critical. From financial services to healthcare, the effective management of NHIs helps bridge security gaps and fosters an environment……
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Banks need stricter controls to prevent romance fraud, says City regulator
FCA cites study showing victims’ ‘red flags’ are often missed and calls for improved monitoring systemsThe City regulator has called on banks and payment firms to bring in stricter controls protecting customers from romance fraud after a study showed a number of missed “red flags” that led to people losing huge sums of money.The review…
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KnowBe4 warns of new PayPal invoice phishing scam
Security awareness firm KnowBe4 has issued a warning about a new PayPal themed phishing scam that uses real PayPal email addresses to trick victims into handing over sensitive financial information. The scam begins when victims receive an email from a legitimate PayPal domain containing an invoice for a large purchase they never made. The The…
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Auction giant Sotheby’s says data breach exposed customer information
Major international auction house Sotheby’s is notifying customers of a data breach incident on its systems where threat actors stole sensitive information, including financial details. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/auction-giant-sothebys-says-data-breach-exposed-customer-information/
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Have I Been Pwned: Prosper data breach impacts 17.6 million accounts
Hackers stole the personal information of over 17.6 million people after breaching the systems of financial services company Prosper. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/have-i-been-pwned-warns-of-prosper-data-breach-impacting-176-million-accounts/
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Auction house Sotheby’s finds its data on the block after cyberattack
Alert says financial account information lifted from systems First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/10/16/sothebys_breach/
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There’s no such thing as quantum incident response and that changes everything
Tags: apple, attack, china, compliance, computer, cryptography, data, dns, encryption, finance, group, healthcare, incident response, Internet, linkedin, nist, PCI, risk, serviceStep one: Inventory your algorithms and data with a view towards which sensitive data ought to be protected with PQC. This is a data classification exercise where you need to add a column to track whether the datastore or application qualifies for PQC.Step two: Check your internet-facing assets to see which, if any, are already…
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Auction house Sotheby’s finds its data on the block after cyberattack
Alert says financial account information lifted from systems First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/10/16/sothebys_breach/
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There’s no such thing as quantum incident response and that changes everything
Tags: apple, attack, china, compliance, computer, cryptography, data, dns, encryption, finance, group, healthcare, incident response, Internet, linkedin, nist, PCI, risk, serviceStep one: Inventory your algorithms and data with a view towards which sensitive data ought to be protected with PQC. This is a data classification exercise where you need to add a column to track whether the datastore or application qualifies for PQC.Step two: Check your internet-facing assets to see which, if any, are already…
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Auction house Sotheby’s finds its data on the block after cyberattack
Alert says financial account information lifted from systems First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/10/16/sothebys_breach/
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There’s no such thing as quantum incident response and that changes everything
Tags: apple, attack, china, compliance, computer, cryptography, data, dns, encryption, finance, group, healthcare, incident response, Internet, linkedin, nist, PCI, risk, serviceStep one: Inventory your algorithms and data with a view towards which sensitive data ought to be protected with PQC. This is a data classification exercise where you need to add a column to track whether the datastore or application qualifies for PQC.Step two: Check your internet-facing assets to see which, if any, are already…
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New Phishing Technique Targets Users via Basic Auth URLs
Netcraft recently uncovered a suspicious URL targeting GMO Aozora Bank, a Japanese financial institution. The URL leveraged a legacy web technique”, Basic Authentication URL formatting”, to visually impersonate the bank and deceive customers. This discovery prompted a broader review of phishing activity that still relies on this old but effective technique, exposing how threat actors…
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New Phishing Technique Targets Users via Basic Auth URLs
Netcraft recently uncovered a suspicious URL targeting GMO Aozora Bank, a Japanese financial institution. The URL leveraged a legacy web technique”, Basic Authentication URL formatting”, to visually impersonate the bank and deceive customers. This discovery prompted a broader review of phishing activity that still relies on this old but effective technique, exposing how threat actors…
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Panne bei Paypal-Partner: Versehentlich 300 Billionen USD in Krypto-Coins erzeugt
Kleiner Fehler, große Wirkung: Ein Paypal-Partner hat durch einen Fehler fast die dreifache Menge des globalen BIP in PYUSD-Stablecoins generiert. First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/panne-bei-paypal-partner-versehentlich-300-billionen-usd-in-krypto-coins-erzeugt-2510-201222.html
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Seceon for Finance: Safeguarding the Digital Economy
In today’s hyper-connected economy, financial institutions operate across cloud systems, digital payment networks, and third-party integrations, forming the nerve center of global commerce. But with this connectivity comes unprecedented exposure to cyber risk. From ransomware and insider threats to compliance violations, financial organizations face an expanding threat landscape where a single breach can cost First…
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The Human Cost of Cyber Risk: How Exposure Management Can Ease Security Burnout
Tags: ai, attack, breach, business, ceo, ciso, cloud, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, finance, fraud, healthcare, identity, mitre, ransomware, risk, strategy, technology, threat, tool, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementThe true cost of cyber risk is a human one. Siloed tools and disjointed operations aren’t just endangering your business, they’re also taking a real toll on your teams. It’s long past time to take the friction out of cybersecurity with a unified, proactive approach. Key takeaways: Security teams are overwhelmed by the number of…
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The Human Cost of Cyber Risk: How Exposure Management Can Ease Security Burnout
Tags: ai, attack, breach, business, ceo, ciso, cloud, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, finance, fraud, healthcare, identity, mitre, ransomware, risk, strategy, technology, threat, tool, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementThe true cost of cyber risk is a human one. Siloed tools and disjointed operations aren’t just endangering your business, they’re also taking a real toll on your teams. It’s long past time to take the friction out of cybersecurity with a unified, proactive approach. Key takeaways: Security teams are overwhelmed by the number of…