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Report: Big U.S. Banks Are Stiffing Account Takeover Victims

October 7, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, aite-novarica, bank of america, biocatch, capital one, jpmorgan chase, pnc bank, sen. elizabeth warren, seth rudin, The Coming Storm, trace fooshee, truist, u.s. bank, wells fargo, Zelle

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2022 18:46:12 +0000

When U.S. consumers have their online bank accounts hijacked and plundered by hackers, U.S. financial institutions are legally obligated to reverse any unauthorized transactions as long as the victim reports the fraud in a timely manner. But new data released this week suggests that for some of the nation’s largest banks, reimbursing account takeover victims has become more the exception than the rule.

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Capital One identity theft hacker finally gets convicted

June 21, 2022 0 Comments capital one, cryptojacking, data breach, data loss, doj, Law & order, malware, ssn

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 15:24:24 +0000

It took three years, but the Capital One cracker was convicted in the end. Don’t get caught out in a data breach of your own!

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Stalkerware developer dealt new blow by FTC

October 29, 2019 0 Comments capital one, consent agreement, consent order, data breach, Data Breaches, Equifax, Federal Trade Commission, FTC, ftc bureau of consumer protection, marriott, mobilespy, motherboard, national domestic violence hotline, National Network to End Domestic Violence, phonesheriff, retina-x, retina-x studios, Stalkerware, StealthGenie, TeenSafe, uber, US Federal Trade Commission, vice

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:37 +0000

A new government front has emerged against stalkerware—the US Federal Trade Commission. Following enforcement against Retina-X and its founder, what’s next?

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Capital One cryptojacking suspect indicted

September 2, 2019 0 Comments capital one, CFAA, Cloud Computing, cryptojacking, data breach, data loss, erratic, federal grand jury, Hacker, Hacking, indictment, Law & order, misconfigured servers, Paige Thompson, software engineer, vulnerability, wire fraud

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2019 10:39:21 +0000

The former software engineer allegedly created scanners to look for misconfigured servers rented from a cloud computing company.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/au_7MSrus80″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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GitHub ‘encourages’ hacking, says lawsuit following Capital One breach

August 6, 2019 0 Comments Amazon cloud services, breach, capital one, class action, data loss, github, insider threats, Law & order, lawsuit, privilege escalation, security threats

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:17:54 +0000

The class action charges Capital One and GitHub, charging it with being “friendly” (at least) toward hacking and for the hackers’ posts.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/SJBRTxPFXi8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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A week in security (July 29 – August 4)

August 5, 2019 0 Comments android q, atm attacks, board of directors, capital one, Equifax, Equifax breach, exploit kit, exploit kits, germanwiper, government cybersecurity, Lord exploit kit, Magecart, MageCart attacks, Malwarebytes news

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2019 15:44:37 +0000

A roundup of security news from July 29 – August 4 including Capital One breach, Lord Exploit Kit, more Magecart skimming, ATM attacks, QR code scams, and Equifax payout.

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Capital One breach exposes over 100 million credit card applications

August 2, 2019 0 Comments Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon web services, AWS, capital one, Capital One data breach, data breach, EC2, Equifax, Equifax breach, fintech, iam, identity access management, Paige Thompson, Reports

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2019 16:00:00 +0000

The Capital One data breach is an exceptional example, if only because of how much we already know. Not only that, but the breach happened to one of the technical front-runners in banking.

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Tags: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Amazon web services aws Capital One Capital One data breach data breach EC2 Equifax Equifax breach fintech iam identity access management Paige Thompson

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Capital One breach – 100 million users’ data stolen

July 30, 2019 0 Comments breach, capital one, data breach, data loss

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 15:46:16 +0000

Global financial services company Capital One has just announced a massive data breach.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/beZiWdZXOZw” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>