Month: January 2018

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Corporate Social Responsibility: The Expanding Role of Banks as Environmental Stewards

Credit to Author: Kim Tremblay| Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2018 16:18:05 +0000

As we wrapped up 2017 and looked toward 2018, I began a small research project to determine new and better ways to help our banking and financial services customers with… Read more »

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IndependentKrebs

Serial Swatter “SWAuTistic” Bragged He Hit 100 Schools, 10 Homes

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2018 17:15:10 +0000

The individual who allegedly made a fake emergency call to Kansas police last week that summoned them to shoot and kill an unarmed local man has claimed credit for raising dozens of these dangerous false alarms — calling in bogus hostage situations and bomb threats at roughly 100 schools and at least 10 residences.

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FortinetSecurity

How Financial Services Firms Can Protect Against DDoS Attacks

Credit to Author: Brian Forster| Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2018 13:45:59 +0000

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are becoming increasingly common across the financial services industry. DDoS attacks occur when a portion of the network is targeted, typically at the networking, transport, or application layer, with a flood of requests that overwhelm network bandwidth, causing it to slow or crash completely. 

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