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European Central Bank Closes a Website Following Hack
2019-08-16 17:48

Malware Found; Personal Data Apparently ExposedThe European Central Bank has closed one of its websites after its IT staff found that a hacker compromised some personal information on the site and...

European Central Bank Shuts Down 'BIRD Portal' After Getting Hacked
2019-08-16 12:18

The European Central Bank (ECB) confirmed Thursday that it had been hit by a cyberattack that involved attackers injecting malware into one of its websites and potentially stealing contact...

ECB Uncovers Data Breach in Bank Newsletter
2019-08-15 18:13

Hackers had access for months to the contact information of hundreds of financial industry subscribers to a European Central Bank newsletter, the Frankfurt institution said Thursday. "Unauthorised...

Pwn an iPhone to bank $1m, Check Point gripes about WhatsApp privacy again, Broadcom eats Symantec enterprise biz
2019-08-09 00:30

Apple expands bug bounties, and more from Vegas this week Black Hat Here's a quick summary of some important infosec happenings from inside and outside the Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas on...

Mobile-Only Bank Monzo Warns 480,000 Customers to Reset PINs
2019-08-06 18:33

Software Bug Meant Some Numbers Were Stored UnencryptedMonzo, a U.K. mobile-only bank that plans to expand into the U.S., alerted about 480,000 customers to change their PINs this week after the...

Digital bank Monzo urges customers to change PINs following security breach
2019-08-06 10:58

Monzo, a UK-based mobile-only bank, has notified a subset of its users that their PINs have been inadvertently leaked into internal log files and were accessible to some of the company’s...

PIN the blame on us, says Monzo in mondo security blunder: Bank card codes stored in plain-text in log files
2019-08-06 05:09

Why bother go for databases when insecure log files appears to be where all the data is at Trendy online-only Brit bank Monzo is telling hundreds of thousands of its customers to pick a new PIN –...

Computop unveils PSD2 compliant biometric authentication service for online merchants and banks
2019-08-05 03:00

Computop, the global payment processor, announced Biometrics by Computop, its new PSD2 compliant biometric authentication service for online merchants and banks. With Biometrics by Computop,...

Five examples of user-centered bank fraud
2019-08-02 05:30

In today’s digital-first world, banks and financial service companies need to allow their customers to easily manage money online in order to compete. Unfortunately, most banking platforms were...

Cybercrooks attempted credential-stuffing banks 3.5 BEEELLION times in the last 18 months alone
2019-07-31 18:12

All going just as you'd expect, reckons Akamai Content delivery network Akamai Technologies reckons that despite the time and effort spent convincing people not to fall for phishing and other...