Brokerage firm pays $1.5 million due to a cyber attack
Phillip Capital Inc. (“PCI”)., a Chicago-based brokerage firm was ordered to pay $1.5 million dollars due to a cyber attack. Per the CFTC, PCI allowed “cyber criminals to […]
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Phishing attack evades detection
Inform your HR departments, internal recruiting teams, and hiring managers to be on the lookout for emails that come from someone submitting a resume for an open position […]
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New York State SHIELD (Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security) ACT
New York State SHIELD (Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security) will go into Effect March 21, 2020. This gives businesses a little less than nine months to […]
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Update your web filters and block these sites
Are you blocking websites today? If you are, they are most likely sites such as file sharing, public email, social media, and other non-business related websites.If you do […]
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Cybersecurity Alert – OCIE – Safeguarding Customer Records and Information in Network Storage – Use of Third Party Security Features
Alert On May 23, 2019, the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (“OCIE”) issued the alert “Safeguarding Customer Records and Information in Network Storage – Use of Third […]
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External Vulnerability Assessments
Are you in need of external vulnerability assessments to satisfy business or regulatory requirements? Or are you afraid you can not keep up with the latest known threats, […]
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Beyond the Grave virus, is it a hoax or a warning sign?
Here’s why we think there is something interesting about the “Beyond the Grave Virus” supposedly affecting hedge funds. We were curious because there was some chatter about it […]
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There is a difference between privacy and cyber(security).
We see too often that the terms privacy and security (cybersecurity) are used interchangeably and felt it was important to help people understand that they are not the […]
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Automating Password Cracking Using Responder and Hashcat! (Part 1)
Responder, one of the tools that is part of every pen-testers toolkit (if you are a pen-tester and you don’t use it, shame on you), is by far […]
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“New” phishing campaigns – leveraging scare tactics (Ransomware 3.0)
We got an email today that we thought was very interesting. Most of the email phishing campaigns that we’ve seen thus far, and the most common ones our […]
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