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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: How financial institutions can stay safe and secure online

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Ideas for educating and promoting cybersecurity in October Cybersecurity Awareness Month is an opportunity for banks and credit unions to promote online safety and take steps to reduce cyber risks. Cybersecurity Awareness Month is now in its 20th year and has a new enduring theme: Secure Our World.

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Consumers Value Their Social Media But Put Security Onus On Companies

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Social media has taken on a life of its own — so much so that a new survey finds a lot of consumers value their life online at $100,000 to priceless. That may be particularly scary since Forbes reported that Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook got his social media accounts hacked for the third time in 2016.

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Social Media Can Make Bank Customers Susceptible To Scams

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Unintentionally making themselves targets for scammers, customers may become vulnerable to fraud by complaining to banks on social media when systems crash. After problems with an information technology migration locked thousands of clients out of accounts at the U.K.’s

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Executive Order Looms For Social Media Firms On Content? 

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The summary, according to the site, would direct the FCC to develop new regulations that would detail how the law may protect social media platforms as they move to take content off their sites – and to take those new regulations into account when investigating or filing suit against those firms. In the UK, Too.

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Facebook Hit With Fine From UK’s Information Commission Over Data Handling

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after the Information Commissioner’s Office ( ICO ) ruled that the social media network operator was engaged in “serious breaches of data protection.” 25) that the personal information of one million or more U.K. Facebook got hit with a $644,600 fine in the U.K.

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Facebook Has Been Trying To Obtain Financial Information For Years

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Facebook may be under fire for how it handles the data on its more than two billion monthly active users, but the social media company has been trying to get its hands on financial information from the financial services firms for years, reported The Wall Street Journal. That has been and always will be our priority.”.

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Study: More People Fall Prey To Fraudsters Online Than By Phone

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A recent study about how people respond to scammers shows that consumers are more likely to become victims on social media and online marketplaces than over the phone, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday (Sept. The average loss was $600.

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