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    Cybersecurity Can Pose A Risk In More Than One Way for Financial Advisors

    2021-12-08

    CNBC: Financial advisors may want to view cybersecurity as a critical issue on more than one level.

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    The Cyberdemic Will Continue, According to the 2022 Experian Data Breach Industry Forecast

    2021-12-06

    Business Wire: In the Experian ninth annual Data Breach Industry Forecast, five predictions for 2022 underscore the ongoing impact of the pandemic on cybersecurity. Cybercriminals will continue to exploit vulnerabilities within remote working and the vaccine ecosystem, but also set their sights on new targets such as online gambling.

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    Understanding Cybersecurity Management for FinTech: Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities and Risk In FinTech

    2021-12-01

    IT World Canada: FinTech revolves around technologies such as cloud, blockchain, AI, and mobile devices that are used for financial transaction payments, cryptocurrencies, money transfers, trading, and regulatory compliance.

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    Control Failures Are Behind A Growing Number of Cybersecurity Incidents

    2021-12-01

    Help Net Security: Data from a survey of 1,200 enterprise security leaders reveals that an increase in tools and manual reporting combined with control failures are contributing to the success of threats such as ransomware, which costs organizations an average of $1.85 million in recovery, according to Panaseer.

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    Data Breach Costs Increase By $1 Million When Remote Workers Are Involved

    2021-11-30

    KnowBe4: You already knew remote workers increase the risk of cyberattack. New data spells out exactly what the impact of a remote workforce is on data breaches and the cost to remediate.

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    Most Businesses Expect Cybersecurity Threats to Increase Over the Next Year

    2021-11-23

    Tech Radar: Polling 3,600 business and technology executives from around the world for the report, PwC found multiple factors contributing to the rising threat of cybercrime, including lower barrier for entry for numerous types of malware attacks, rising complexity of organizations due to mergers and acquisitions, remote working, or multi-vendor environments, to name but a few.

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    Cybersecurity Investing Always Fashionable

    2021-11-22

    ETF Trends: Cybersecurity is such an important theme that there an entire month devoted to awareness of it. For investors, the relevance of cybersecurity lasts for all 12 months of the year, and there are multiple avenues for addressing that relevance.

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    4 Key Cybersecurity Threats to New Central Bank Digital Currencies

    2021-11-20

    World Economic Forum: With G7 officials recently endorsing principles for central bank digital currencies (CBDC), and over 80 countries launching some form of initiative related to CBDC, it seems their widespread deployment is a matter of time.

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    Vaccine Research Among Cyber Attack Targets

    2021-11-17

    BBC: The National Cyber Security Centre says it handled a record 777 incidents between August 2020 and September 2021. Its annual review said protecting the health sector became an urgent priority over the period.

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    How Hackers Are Targeting Cryptocurrency

    2021-11-02

    Dark Reading: As the cryptocurrency and digital asset markets mature, so have hackers' approaches to compromising exchanges, asset owners, and other parts of the crypto-financial ecosystem. Whereas cryptocurrencies' role in attacks used to simply be ransomware payments, the market has changed.

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