Cyber security

Capital One fine is latest wake-up call for banks using the cloud

08/07/20

A year-old data breach, which earned the company an $80 million OCC penalty this week, continues to offer lessons to banks as they put more sensitive information in the hands of cloud vendors.

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Capital One to pay $80M in connection with massive data breach

08/06/20

Regulators found fault with the bank’s cloud migration efforts in the years that preceded a 2019 hacking incident.

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Challenger bank Dave suffers data breach affecting all 7.5 million customers

07/27/20

Over the weekend, hackers broke in through a third-party vendor to steal names, email addresses and other personally identifiable information.

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BNP Paribas is latest bank to join IBM cloud project

07/22/20

The IBM-BNP collaboration and other new developments show that high-profile breaches haven't deterred banks from using the cloud to store data.

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Wells customers phished, Fed caps dividends, Citi’s new ops chief: Top stories of the week

06/26/20

Wells Fargo customers targeted with phishing attacks using calendar invites; Fed freezes stock buybacks, caps dividends after stress test results; Citigroup names Titi Cole its head of global operations and fraud prevention.

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Banks can ill afford to get complacent about coronavirus

06/24/20

Business continuity plans should be used constantly, not just when the crisis is at its peak, says the New York Fed’s head of financial services.

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Wells Fargo customers targeted with phishing attacks using calendar invites

06/22/20

In a new twist on an old scam, cybercriminals have tried to get thousands of people to surrender their Wells bank account information by sending authentic-looking emails containing malicious links that lead to a fake website bearing the company's name.

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Wells Fargo employees targeted with phishing attack using calendar invites

06/22/20

In a new twist on an old scam, cybercriminals have tried to get thousands of Wells staffers to surrender their own account information by sending authentic-looking emails containing malicious links that lead to a fake website bearing the company's name.

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TD’s answer to a pandemic-driven spike in wire fraud

06/18/20

The bank says fraud attempts involving commercial wire transfers have escalated since the outbreak began. It's training employees and customers how to head off the often hard-to-detect scams.

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Small banks' battle to thwart unemployment scams

06/15/20

Peoples Bank in Arkansas and Main Street Bank in Massachusetts are getting smarter about spotting suspicious transactions tied to unemployment benefit fraud as well as warning customers what to watch out for.

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