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The Uncharted Territory Of M&A Cyber Risks

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Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity continues to accelerate as 2019 progresses, both in terms of volume and value of M&A deals. which suffered a data breach last year as the result of a cybersecurity incident at a third-party vendor. Such cases have been reported at Ticketmaster U.K.

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When Vendors Open Doors To Cyberattackers

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Organizations are ramping up cybersecurity investments in response to the ever-climbing threat of data breaches and cyberattacks. But all the money in the world to secure an organization’s back office won’t necessarily help safeguard all company data.

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Back To Basics For SME Security

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Analysts at Clutch found that, despite knowing the risks, small businesses largely continue to use free cloud data storage services, even to store highly sensitive information, like banking and medical information. Separate research released this month suggests that, indeed, SMEs need to start with the basics.

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PCI Validated P2PE – 3 Years in North America, What Has Changed?

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In 2016, there were 1,093 data breaches according to the Identity Theft Resource Center – a 40% increase over the 2015 data breach number of 781. Malware was the culprit in the multi-million-dollar Home Depot, Target, Wendy’s and PF Chang’s breaches. Malware and its Role in Data Breaches.

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How False-Positives Complicate The B2B Payments Fraud Fight

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Between data breaches exposing customer details and card information and the rise of card-not-present fraud as operations move online, digital businesses are challenged to stay abreast of payment security trends — and fraud is a massive issue for firms large and small. This isn’t merely an issue for the B2C world, however.

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SenseOn: Confronting Modern Cyber Risks in Financial Services

The Fintech Times

The financial services industry continues to face unrelenting cyber-attack attempts due to the nature of high-value data it houses. The severity of the challenge is demonstrated in IBM ’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023 , which ranks data breaches in the financial sector as second only to the healthcare industry in terms of costs.

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The Buyers: Consumers, Post-Hacking

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Since the internet came into mainstream use in the 1990s, there have been myriad cyber infiltrations into sensitive data. businesses and organizations saw a 40 percent increase in data breaches , bringing its total to 1,093 reported incidents. In 2016 alone, U.S.