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The cyber security threat landscape in financial services

Insights on Business

Gary Meshell, WW Leader Financial Services, IBM Security, opened his IBM Think 2019 talk, How Financial Services Companies Should Respond to Cyber Security Attacks with a bold assertion and truism. IBM and TD Bank jointly developed cyber security incident response solution for the financial services industry.

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Social Media Can Make Bank Customers Susceptible To Scams

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Unintentionally making themselves targets for scammers, customers may become vulnerable to fraud by complaining to banks on social media when systems crash. s TSB , for example, the bank saw attempted fraud rise up to 70 times, Reuters reported.

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Bots, humans share the workload of digital fraud

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As mobile payment applications increasingly integrate with social media platforms, fraudsters are using a mix of bots and human labor to increase their chances of a successful account takeover.

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UK To Spend Close To £2 Billion To Fight Cyberattacks

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government plans to work with industry partners, such as Bath-based Netcraft — an outfit that specializes in internet security services and counts clients that include Microsoft, BT, Cisco and Intel. universities” that will be tasked with increasing security for smartphones, tablets and laptops.

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NTechLab’s FindFace Facial Recognition Technology Has Applications In Retail, Public Safety

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FindFace started as a futuristic social technology for identifying strangers by scanning their faces with a smartphone camera. Two years later, the facial recognition technology is the best in the world (yep, even better than Google’s) and is being used for public safety, law enforcement and fraud prevention through cybersecurity.

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Developing an Information Security Wellness Program for your Financial Institution

Jack Henry

That is, given the same preventative measures, an FI may reduce the number and extent of information security breaches due to fraud. Consider implementing the following three measures in order to achieve information security wellness. Helping employees to recognize the signs of fraud and respond appropriately is a process.

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Two Cyber Security Investments With a Silver Lining

Banking 2020

The technology protects everything from online transactions and network remote access to social media, personal and business information. According to the Federal Trade Commission, only 26 percent of stolen identities are used for credit fraud. Do your customers know about these other types of fraud?