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Travel Management Firm CWT Pays $4.5M In Bitcoin To Hackers

PYMNTS

Corporate travel manager CWT paid $4.5 The news service said it learned details of the negotiations between Minnetonka, Minnesota-based CWT and the unidentified hackers because the talks played out in a publicly viewable chat room.

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FBI Probing Hack Of US Electricity Providers

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Ted Cash, general manager of ALP Utilities in Minnesota, revealed that his employees “found a quarantined email in a restricted account” after being contacted by the FBI. “We never got compromised, and never saw the phishing emails,” he said. The email was then downloaded onto a disk and sent to the FBI for analysis.

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How to Avoid Life Insurance Fraud

MyBankTracker

What nobody needs is life insurance fraud. Worrying about life insurance fraud probably isn’t high on your list of concerns, which is good, because the odds of something happening are likely rare, but it’s smart to have it on your radar. So if you’re concerned about life insurance fraud, don’t worry (much).

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State Employees In Mississippi Targets Of Direct Deposit Scam

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News comes this week from Mississippi that state workers are being targeted by similar fraud attempts. In news a bit closer to home, AG Web reported that, in Minnesota, Jerome Robert Hennessey pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud. It has been alleged that, in 2016, he falsified two invoices for a total of £700 ($911.65

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Can AI Turn Banks Into FinTech Firms?

PYMNTS

What they are getting is that consumers want, and increasingly demand, a suite of services on the front end that make the financial management of their lives easier and more seamless. They can only prevent fraud or money laundering on the basis of what they’ve been programmed to flag. That is a trend emerging in all banks, he said.

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Federal Cybersecurity Professionals Play Catch-Up Weeks After Gov’t Shutdown

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Wired pointed to a report in the spring by the Office of Management and Budget which concluded that 74 percent of federal agencies need an upgrade of their digital defenses urgently. The report noted that there are concerns that the real impact from the shutdown will take time to play out.

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Does your bank need cyber insurance?

Independent Banker

Cyber insurance not only provides financial reimbursement for losses; it also equips the insured with access to a list of preapproved incident response experts that are required to help the bank manage a cyber event. The banking industry could face greater regulatory scrutiny and pressure ahead on how they’re managing cyber risks.

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