Security News

UK banks must detail plans to avoid cyberattacks, tech disruptions by the fall
2018-07-06 14:05

Banks and financial services firms must report to the Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority on their exposure to risks and plans for mitigation.

Budget hotel chain, UK political party, Monzo Bank caught by Typeform breach
2018-07-03 08:48

All insist financial data is safe – but not names or emails More entities affected by the data breach at web form and survey company Typeform have come forward, including budget hotel chain...

Startup bank Monzo: We warned Ticketmaster months ago of site fraud
2018-06-28 23:36

Compromised payment cards detected in April, JavaScript code meddling revealed in June Online bank Monzo said it warned Ticketmaster that something weird was going on in early April, two months...

India tells its banks to get Windows XP off ATMs - next year!
2018-06-25 00:53

And do some pretty basic security hygiene before then The Reserve Bank of India has given that country's banking sector a hard deadline to get Windows XP out of its ATMs: June 2019.…

Dixons Carphone Cyberattack Targets 5.9M Bank Cards
2018-06-13 13:30

Dixons Carphone said it discovered a massive cyberattack on its processing systems that targeted millions of payment cards and personal data records.

Banks planning further integration of regulatory data
2018-06-13 11:30

Most global banks are planning to integrate their regulatory workflow data. But keeping up to date with the fast pace of regulatory change, as well as staying compliant with changing regulations...

Hackers target payment transfer system at Chile's biggest bank
2018-06-11 14:51

SWIFT-linked system was the target, claim infosec types Banco de Chile has become the latest victim in a string of cyber attacks targeting the payment transfer systems of banks.…

UK bank IT nightmare that locked out 1.9M customers is exactly what shouldn't happen
2018-06-07 13:51

What should have been a simple IT upgrade led to 1,300 people getting money stolen from their TSB Bank accounts.

A Spectre solution, a (very) brief Cloudflare outage, a bank heist in Canada, and more
2018-06-02 00:24

Also, the SEC takes aim at another shady ICO Roundup While we were busy chasing SpamCannibals, jailing Yahoo hackers, and blaming North Korea for everything else, there was some interesting...