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On, March 1, 2019, all banks, other regulated entities and persons regulated and licensed through the Department of Financial Services (DFS) must be in compliance with the requirements of 23 NYCRR 500.11.
If you do business in New York State—and who doesn’t?—these NYDFS cybersecurity requirements apply to you; your bank must be in compliance.
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After tricking employees into opening emails that gave them access to debit card account numbers at National Bankshares of Blacksburg, Virginia, Russian hackers stole $2.4 million from hundreds of ATMS across the country in 2016 and 2017, news accounts say.
To make matters worse, the bank’s insurer has offered only $50,000 to cover the loss, a dispute that is now in federal court.
Taking your insurance company to court is one way to reduce your cyber security losses. A better way is to arm yourself against such losses in the first place. At onShore Security, we have 20 years experience in protecting banks from cyber intrusions and a comprehensive system of detection, analysis, and ongoing vigilance that builds security, inside and out. Learn more from our CEO in the video below.
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The following is a guest blog, published with the author’s permission. Click here to read the original post at Tressler LLP.
Courts have generally defined “spoofing” as “the practice of disguising a commercial e-mail to make the e-mail appear to come from an address from which it did not originate. Spoofing involves placing in the ‘from’ or ‘reply-to’ lines, or in other portions of e-mail messages, an email address other than the actual sender’s address, without the consent or authorization of the user of the e-mail address whose address is spoofed.”
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A question we’ve been asked recently is why an IPS isn’t sufficient to protect a financial institution (or any organization) from a DDOS attack. The explanation is quite simple, with an understanding of what a DDOS attack is and what an IPS is and does. [Read more…]
Recently, it was revealed that more than 500,000 routers in 54 countries were infected with the VPNFilter malware. VPNFilter has new capabilities, including the ability to perform an active man-in-the-middle attack. In our latest videoblog, Stel discusses the network detection that is necessary to protect your business from this attack.