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Industry News: ESG5

    Is the SEC Targeting Crypto Trading With New Reporting Requirements?

    2023-05-04

    BeinCrypto: Over the past few years, the SEC has tightened its regulatory oversight of cryptocurrency private funds. Admittedly, the SEC is responsible for regulating securities and investments in the United States.

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    Cybersecurity Still Finding Its Place In New AI Era

    2023-05-03

    Crunchbase: It is difficult nowadays to talk to investors in any tech sector without AI coming up in the conversation — and that is certainly true in cybersecurity.

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    FCA Urges Capita Clients to Ascertain if Data Was Compromised in Cyber-Attack

    2023-05-03

    The Guardian: The City regulator has contacted Capita’s corporate clients urging them to ascertain whether their customers’ data has been compromised after a cyber-attack on the outsourcer in March.

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    4 Ways Leaders Should Reevaluate Their Cybersecurity's Focus

    2023-05-02

    Forbes: Despite business leaders' growing awareness of cybercrime—and the rapid adaptations offered by new cybersecurity architectures—criminals continue to successfully exploit weaknesses created by these evolving business infrastructures. 

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    Singapore, US Run Cross-Border Cybersecurity Drills To Test Banks' Resilience

    2023-05-02

    ZDNet: Singapore and the U.S. have conducted drills to assess how well banks operating in their respective markets respond to cybersecurity threats. 

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    FBI Seizes 9 Crypto Exchanges Used To Launder Ransomware Payments

    2023-05-02

    Bleeping Computer: The FBI and Ukrainian police have seized nine cryptocurrency exchange websites that facilitated money laundering for scammers and cybercriminals, including ransomware actors.

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    FBI Focuses on Cybersecurity With $90M Budget Request

    2023-05-01

    Dark Reading: The FBI is requesting more than $63 million in new funding to fight cyber threats in 2024. On April 27, FBI Director Christopher Wray presented before the House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science. 

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    Know Your Breach: Peugeot

    The Target: Peugeot, a France based automobile manufacturer.

    The Take: Exposure of company sensitive data including: credentials to a MYSQL database, secure web tokens along with their passphrases and locations of keys, a link to the git repository for the website, and source code.

    The Vector: Peugeot’s website based in Peru was hosting an unsecured environment file (.env), which contains credentials for other services used by the program, or website in this case, that the developers are working on. The logins stored here exposed credentials to a third-party software Peugeot used named Symphony, which could let attackers download session IDs and impersonate users.

    This breach is a critical reminder to monitor, flag, and properly secure all publicly accessible files on a website, and to furthermore ensure these files are protected by passwords adhering to robust cybersecurity standards of complexity and length. This attack also shows how one exposure of a system can lead to a pivot into other systems. It’s essential to secure all public-facing websites.

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    Lookout Sells Its Consumer Cybersecurity Business to F-Secure for $223M and Goes All-In on the Enterprise

    2023-04-26

    TechCrunch: Lookout’s long-running transition to becoming an enterprise security company is all but complete, revealing today that it’s selling its consumer mobile security business to Finland’s F-Secure in a deal valued at around $223 million.

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    US Deploying More Cyber Forces Abroad to Help Fight Hackers

    2023-04-25

    The Economic Times: The United States is sending more of its cyber forces abroad to help foreign governments fight hackers, a top US military official said at the RSA cybersecurity conference in San Francisco.

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