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A former United Airlines employee has been sent to prison for stealing passengers’ financial data and using it to make fraudulent purchases.  Hayder Lefta, of Manchester, New Hampshire, worked as a customer service representative at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport in 2018 and 2019. Court documents showed that while assisting customers at the airport, the 25-year-old made a copy of their credit card numbers.  Lefta later used these stolen card details to purchase airline flights and meals…

A cyber-attack forced hospitals in West Virginia and Ohio to divert patients to other care providers and work from paper records. Threat actors targeted Memorial Health System with ransomware on the morning of August 15. The assault disrupted the IT systems at nearly all the health system’s 64 clinics and three hospitals – Marietta Memorial, Selby General, and Sistersville General. By midnight on Sunday, the hospitals were turning away patients, except for heart-attack, stroke and trauma patients, and sending them…

Zero-trust is a good way to prevent hackers from gaining control of our infrastructure and energy industries, expert says. TechRepublic’s Karen Roby spoke with Greg Valentine, solution director for Capgemini, about cybersecurity in the energy sector. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation. SEE: Security incident response policy (TechRepublic Premium) Karen Roby: Greg, we talk a lot about now more than ever, the energy sector and cybersecurity, and people are realizing more and…

Zero-trust security is a great preventer of cyberattacks, expert says Length: 11:05 | Aug 18, 2021 The zero-trust model prevents attacks, but also greatly limits the impact of a successful breach, such as a ransomware attack. Source link

Disclosures of vulnerabilities affecting industrial control systems (ICS) have grown by 41% in the past six months, according to a report released today by Claroty. The third Biannual ICS Risk & Vulnerability Report found a rapid acceleration in the number of disclosures being reported since the start of 2021.  In the last half of 2020, 449 vulnerabilities were disclosed. During the first half of 2021, more than 600 ICS vulnerabilities were disclosed, impacting 76 vendors.  Claroty researchers described…

Expert says people are becoming smarter about the links they click on and noticing the ones they shouldn’t, giving hope for the future of cybersecurity. TechRepublic’s Karen Roby spoke about cybersecurity with Robert Braun, partner and co-chair of the cybersecurity and privacy group Jeffer, Mangels, Butler and Mitchell. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation. Karen Roby: What concerns you the most with companies nowadays and those that you’re working with and in…

Cybercriminals are getting more sophisticated and better at going unnoticed Length: 12:16 | Aug 18, 2021 Human error is still responsible for the majority of breaches, but we’re getting better about watching for suspicious links, expert says. Source link

When asked how they can improve a bank’s security from financial crime, many bankers are at a loss for words. Granted, the question is a broad one and difficult to answer right away—financial crime has always been multifaceted, and its nature has only evolved further over time. Still, if banking institutions truly want to steer clear of connections to money launderers or terrorist financiers, they must identify which aspect of their operations is worth strengthening….