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What if you get into the bank account of the World’s most richest person? Maybe it could be difficult for you as well as I. But not for this guy…
…Konstantin Simeonov Kavrakov, a Bulgarian hacker, who hacked into the ATM and stole thousands of dollars from the bank account of Microsoft mogul Bill Gates with fake ATM cards arrested in Philippines, according to the Philippine National Police.
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To bolster security, banks in New York are planning to enact new regulations for any third party vendors they do business with.
The report “Update on Cyber Security in the Banking Sector: Third Party Service Providers,” released by the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) highlights key security risks associated with vendors in the banking sector.
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Two deeply researched reports underscore the following: the vast majority of hacking attacks are successful because employees click on links in tainted emails, companies fail to apply available patches to known software flaws, or technicians do not configure systems properly.
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The former head of information security at the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL), who was arrested in January 2015, stands accused of having tampered with the computer used for drawing winning lottery numbers and of having purchased the winning lottery ticket after, even though he, as an employee of the association, isn’t permitted to.
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Internet users were denied access to Google Inc’s Malaysia website on Tuesday, and were redirected to a hacked page saying "Google Malaysia Hacked by Tiger-Mate #Bangladeshi Hacker". The company has reached out to the organisation that manages the domain name to resolve the issue, MYNIC, a Google Malaysia spokesperson said in a statement to Reuters.
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The Samurai Web Testing Framework (AKA SamuraiWTF) is a live linux environment that has been pre-configured to function as a web pen-testing environment. The CD contains the best of the open source and free tools that focus on testing and attacking websites.
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Watcher is a passive web application vulnerability scanner.
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Scanning receipts while you travel, notes on a whiteboard, or sketches on an envelope can be easy. The best apps for the job take a snapshot, can do text recognition, save your scan to the cloud for future reference on other devices, and more.
Here is lifehacker’s five best mobile document scanning apps.
Regulatory compliance requirements provide instructions for organizations on how to protect the data of their employees, business operations, and customers that are stored on their servers. The process of satisfying compliance requirements starts with IT auditing, performed either by an internal or external professional auditor using specialized software.
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“Global Payment Card Fraud Trends and Statistics,” a new report from Mercator Advisory Group, examines global payment card fraud in four countries: the U.K, France, Australia and South Africa.
The report discusses overall fraud rates by type, including counterfeit card, lost or stolen card, card ID theft, intercepted mail, and card-not-present.
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