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Industry News: ESG5

    Crypto Hacks Highlight Need for More Cybersecurity

    2021-09-01

    ETF Trends: That’s a positive for a variety of exchange traded funds, including the First Trust Nasdaq Cybersecurity ETF (CIBR). Following large-scale ransomware attacks this year on energy pipelines, meat packing plants, and other assets, the case for cybersecurity spending — and investing — has never been stronger.

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    Why Cybersecurity and Regulatory Compliance Are One and the Same

    2021-09-01

    IT Pro Portal: Across any industry, cybersecurity and regulatory compliance are crucial areas for business leaders to keep on top of. Both present a set of diverse, rapidly evolving challenges, each with their own unique twists and turns. 

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    Managing Cybersecurity Risk: Four Options for CEOs, CFOs and Risk Officers

    2021-08-26

    Forbes: Cybersecurity risk, once the focus of technology professionals, is now a boardroom topic. CEOs, CFOs, risk officers and audit committees are seeing cybersecurity risk come into the scope of their roles.

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    Hackers Drained Their Coinbase Accounts. The Victims Want Answers.

    2021-08-24

    NBC News: For Tanja Vidovic, it was a moment of panic: She had received a series of alerts about someone changing access to her cryptocurrency account. And she realized, as she stared at her computer screen, that nearly all of her $168,000 in holdings was gone — vanished before her eyes.

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    80% of Global Businesses Expect a Breach of Customer Records In the Next Year

    2021-08-24

    Security Magazine: The findings come from Trend Micro’s biannual Cyber Risk Index (CRI) report, which measures the gap between respondents’ cybersecurity preparedness versus their likelihood of being attacked.

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    World Bank and Partners Announce New Global Fund for Cybersecurity

    2021-08-16

    World Bank: Digital transformation is accelerating in many countries, offering new opportunities for economic growth and enabling low- and medium-income countries to leapfrog development through increased productivity and improved service delivery across key sectors, including finance, health, education, and agriculture.

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    FINRA Warns of Phishing Campaign Exploiting Imposter Domain Names

    2021-08-16

    IT Pro: The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has warned of a new phishing campaign that involves fraudulent emails using domain names pretending to be the financial regulator.

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    Remote Working Brings Benefits, But Also sScurity Fears

    2021-08-12

    Hedge Week: The implications have been profound as it has become more critical than ever for management firms to offer staff – everyone from portfolio managers to back office teams – the ability to access essential systems remotely.

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    $600 Million Gone: The Biggest Crypto Theft in History

    2021-08-12

    CNN Business: Hackers have stolen some $600 million in cryptocurrency from the decentralized finance platform Poly Network, in what it says is the largest theft in the industry’s history. 

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    Ransomware Demands and Payments Hit New Records

    2021-08-10

    Computer Weekly: The average ransom paid by victim organisations has increased by 82% since 2020 to a record  $570,000, as cyber criminals intensify their ransomware efforts with increasingly aggressive tactics, according to data from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 security consulting group.

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