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    UniCredit Reveals Data Breach Exposing 3 Million Customer Records

    2019-10-28

    ZDNet: In total, roughly three million records were exposed, revealing the names, telephone numbers, email addresses, and cities where clients were registered. 

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    Police Database Flagged 9,000 Cybercrime Reports as 'Security Risk'

    2019-10-24

    The Guardian: Thousands of reports of cybercrime were quarantined on a police database instead of being investigated because software designed to protect the computer system labelled them a security risk.

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    61% of Business Leaders Think Hackers Are Winning War Against Cyber Crime… and Many Are Ignoring the Problem, Reveals RSM Study

    2019-10-24

    Cision: A pan European survey of almost 600 successful businesses* has revealed that 61% of business leaders on the board of their company believe that in the war against cybercrime the hackers are more sophisticated than the software developers. 

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    The NCSC Defends Nation Against More Than 600 Cyber Attacks

    2019-10-23

    NCSC: The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has defended the UK against more than 600 cyber attacks in the past year – bringing the total number to almost 1,800, new figures show.

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    Quarter of UK Pension Schemes Unprepared for Cyber Attack: Aon

    2019-10-16

    Reinsurance News: While 95% of respondents to Aon’s Global Pension Risk Survey 2019 said their schemes had not been affected by cybercrime, a handful confirmed that they had been, and analysts expect this number to increase.

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    UBF and SWIFT Collaborate to Combat Cyberattacks on UAE Banking Industry

    2019-10-14

    Gulf News: SWIFT is the leading provider of secure financial messaging services. SWIFT CSP is an initiative aimed at reinforcing the overall security of the global banking system by improving information sharing throughout the community, enhancing SWIFT-related tools for customers, sharing best practices for fraud detection and enhancing support by third party providers.

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    Real Estate Sector Urged to Change Attitude Towards Cyber-attacks

    2019-10-10

    Property Funds World: A survey commissioned by Drooms, a provider of secure cloud solutions, found more than two in five (41 per cent) real estate professionals in Europe believe their industry is unprepared to deal with cyber-attacks.

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    France Warns of Cyberattacks Against Service Providers and Engineering Offices

    2019-10-08

    ZDNet: "Attackers are compromising these enterprise networks in order to access data and eventually the networks of their clients," the National Cybersecurity Agency of France, known locally as ANSSI (Agence Nationale de la Sécurité des Systèmes d'Information), said in a technical report.

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    UK Energy Boss Conned out of £200,000 in ‘Deep Fake’ Fraud

    2019-10-06

    City A.M.: The UK boss of an unnamed energy firm was tricked into transferring the money following a phone call from that appeared to come from his boss at the German parent company, the Mail on Sunday reported.

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    Sberbank Hit by Huge Data Breach

    2019-10-03

    The Moscow Times: The personal details of millions of Sberbank customers may have been leaked, in what would be the largest-ever data breach in Russian banking, according to cyber security experts.

    Analysts at cybersecurity firm DeviceLock found personal information relating to up to 60 million Sberbank credit card holders for sale on the black market. They were able to analyse the data of around 200 supposed customers — provided to them by the seller — and verified their authenticity. 

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