Here is the weekly roundup :
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Russian State Sponsored Hackers Steal Democrats’ Donald Trump Research
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According to a report today, Russian state hackers have breached and gained access to a trove belonging to the Democratic National Committee. A trove that notably contains research on opposition presidential candidate Donald Trump.
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Defunct P2P Website iMesh Hacked, 51 Million User Records Stolen
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The so-called “mega-breaches” just keep on coming. Following the likes of LinkedIn, Tumblr and Myspace – major websites and platforms that have notably been in recent times for suffering data breaches – defunct P2P filesharing platform iMesh joins that list of targets who have had their servers breached.
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Canadian University Pays $20,000 to Ransomware Cybercriminals
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The University of Calgary has revealed that it paid a $20,000 ransom in bitcoins to cybercriminals who targeted the institution in a comprehensive cyberattack.
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Interesting Reading From Around the Web
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32M Twitter Passwords For Sale -- Here Are Two Easy Steps To Save Your Account From Hackers
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People’s passwords are being sold in the murky corners of the web en masse. This week, as many as 32 million Twitter passwords were reportedly on sale for 10 Bitcoin ($5,775), as Leaked Source, a search engine for stolen data, claimed it had been passed a humongous dataset by an anonymous party.
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Password Re-user? Get Ready to Get Busy
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Facebook, Netflix, or any other company who wants to can take a corpus of leaked passwords that have already been guessed or cracked can simply hash those passwords with whatever one-way hashing mechanism(s) they use internally. After that, it’s just a matter of finding any overlapping email addresses that use the same password.
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10 Credit Unions Adopt Visa Digital Commerce App
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More than 40 financial institutions introduced the Visa Digital Commerce App, an issuer-branded mobile commerce solution that enables financial institutions to offer their own app with card management services. The mobile app offers services such as real-time account balance information, card controls, fraud concerns, or token services for contactless payments.
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Featured Articles
Fuel Incident Response With Threat Intelligence to Lower Breach Impact
Ondrej Krehel, CEO at LIFARS, and Scott Donnelly, senior analyst at Recorded Future, recently presented a webinar on how LIFARS, a digital forensics, incident response, and cyber security intelligence provider, relies on Recorded Future to provide context and technical details that help LIFARS better understand the intricacies of dealing with the aftermath of an incident and identify potential infections.
Keeping Sensitive Data Out of Attackers’ Hands
For credit unions, security isn't just about protecting the vault. It's about shielding sensitive information from determined, increasingly innovative cybercriminals, who continuously probe external defenses and devices. And when it comes to external fraud threats, the size of the financial institution does not matter.
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Identity Fraud Guide: All You Need to Know
For credit unions, security isn't just about protecting the vault. It's about shielding sensitive information from determined, increasingly innovative cybercriminals, who continuously probe external defenses and devices. And when it comes to external fraud threats, the size of the financial institution does not matter.
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