Ticketmaster confirms data breach three months after warning from banks
Ticketmaster has gone public on a data breach affecting the personal and payment card details of 40,000 customers, despite being warned about suspicious activity on customer cards back in April.
F-Secure acquires MWR InfoSecurity
F-Secure has on 18 June 2018 signed an agreement to acquire all the outstanding shares of MWR InfoSecurity, a privately held cyber security company operating globally from its main offices in the UK, the US, South Africa and Singapore. The acquisition is a significant milestone in the execution of F-Secure’s growth strategy, and makes it the largest European single source of cyber security services and detection and response solutions.
BofE pushes for minimum service level from banks hit by IT failures
In the wake of the recent TSB outage, the Bank of England is planning to set a "minimum level of service" provision for banks hit by tech meltdowns or cyberattacks.
Citing the TSB outage and the 2012 RBS fiasco, Lyndon Nelson, deputy chief executive of the BOE’s Prudential Regulation Authority told a conference that a growing reliance on technology means that there has been an "increase in the number of operational incidents - be they caused by internal failures or from external attack".
Dixons Carphone breach compromises 5.9m customer cards
UK consumer electronics retail group Dixons Carphone has suffered a massive data breach, compromising 5.9 million customer cards and 1.2 million personal data records.
The firm says that it has discovered an attempt to compromise the cards in one of the processing systems of Currys PC World and Dixons Travel stores.
FS-ISAC sets up global cyber forum for central banks and regulatory authorities
Central banks and regulators are to share information and intelligence on emerging cyber-threats through a new forum established under the aegis of the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC).
Cyberthreats Increasing But Shifting, With Ransomware Attacks Down 17 Percent
2017 was widely billed as the year of ransomware, but cyberthreats have moved in a new direction this year, according to ISACA’s State of Cybersecurity 2018 research.
BMO and Simplii say fraudsters may have accessed customer data
Bank of Montreal (BMO) and Simplii Financial, a digital bank owned by Cibc, are both warning customers that crooks are claiming to have stolen their personal data.
Hackers steal millions from Mexican banks
Hackers managed to steal hundreds of millions of pesos from Mexican banks by sending thousands of false orders to wire funds to bogus accounts, according to Reuters.
