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FBI: Credential Stuffing Leads to Millions in Fraudulent Transfers

SecureWorld News

The FBI is tracking many reports that indicate the use of botnet credential stuffing. A mid-sized financial institution reported its online banking platform received a "constant barrage" of login attempts using a variety of credential pairs, indicating that the attack was using bots. Detecting credential stuffing attacks.

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Fed Tech News Roundup 8 July 2015

CTOvision

push IT mandates as part of cybersecurity 'sprint' FierceGovernmentIT (Today) - The Marine Corps is directing its information technology system administrators to immediately implement public key infrastructure, or PKI, encryption as part of a review of cybersecurity at the service. Privileged user authentication and PKI are.

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Insider Threat: A perspective on how to address the increasing risk

CTOvision

However, in June of 2013, a systems administrator at the National Security Agency (NSA) reminded us of the threat that already exists within an organization, behind the protection of its sophisticated, complex perimeter security. The insider represents true risk to every firm and organization. Cognitio’s Approach to Insider Threat.

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Averting turbulence in the air

CIO Business Intelligence

Since Erin has a limited budget, one of the first things she might do is go to the internet and browse through meta-search engines looking for a deal. According to Verizon’s 2023 Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR), the transportation industry as a whole was breached 249 times with 349 incidents reported. PCI DSS v4.0

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Life-Like Identity: Why the Internet Needs an Identity Metasystem

Phil Windley

Summary: Sovrin is an identity metasystem that provides the Internet's missing identity layer. By creating a general-purpose system for constructing context-specific identity systems, the metasystem represents a universal trust framework. Digital identity is broken because the Internet was built without an identity layer.

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The FBI’s email system was hacked to send out fake cybersecurity warnings

The Verge

Hackers targeted the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) email servers, sending out thousands of phony messages that say its recipients have become the victims of a “sophisticated chain attack,” first reported by Bleeping Computer.

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New York: Cyberattack Is Twitter's Fault, Let's Increase Regulation

SecureWorld News

In its new report, the New York State Department of Financial Services says the cyberattack and resulting bitcoin scam netted the teen hackers at least $118,000. From the report: "The Twitter Hack is a cautionary tale about the extraordinary damage that can be caused even by unsophisticated cybercriminals.

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