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Interesting and innovative technology is disrupting the financial services market in a good way. Open Banking is one such initiative that can put the customer’s data to use to serve the user’s needs while also extending financial services to populations with no previous access to banking services. The positive impacts of Open Banking are leading…
Read MoreSingle points of failure are the bane of engineering, and engineers put great effort into eliminating them from the systems they design. Increasingly, however, companies are handing over large amounts of their IT infrastructure and application portfolios to third-party providers. This reveals an interesting form of the single point of failure. If an organization uses…
Read MoreBots are not new. Attackers have used bots to achieve scalability in a variety of attack techniques for decades, and defenders have been fighting bots, to varying degrees of success, for just as long. However, two events in 2022—the prolonged acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk, with its attendant discussion about exactly how much of…
Read MoreNeutral/Mixed Intentions Many of the actors in this system are neither completely benign nor completely malicious. Some of these practices are bifurcated into legal and illegal practices, such as the rather obvious distinction between criminal and benign payment facilitators. Some of these provide services that can genuinely be used either way, such as reshipping services…
Read MoreWe are excited to announce that F5 Labs has become a data partner of the Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS). The Internet-wide scanning and attempted exploitation activity that makes up our Sensor Intel Series also happens to be good training data for the machine learning system under EPSS’ hood. F5 Labs wrote about EPSS in…
Read MoreIntroduction The first Chief Information Security Officer, or CISO, was named 29 years ago: After Russian hackers infiltrated financial services giant Citicorp (now Citigroup) in 1995 and stole more than $10 million, the Citigroup Board instructed the company’s CEO to recruit a security executive to improve the company’s digital defenses. That person was Steve Katz,…
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