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Cash App class action settlement 2025: Claim your $2,500

Dataconomy

the parent company of Cash App) has faced a massive, multi-state regulatory actionresulting in $80 million in penaltiesfor alleged violations of Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) laws. included non-compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) laws. What is happening?

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There’s a better way to protect yourself from hackers and identity thieves

Vox

Authenticator apps like Google Authenticator might seem intimidating, but they’re easy to use and safer than texts. If you’re using texts for two-factor authentication, it’s time to change to an app. And you always use two-factor authentication, or 2FA. How to choose and use an authenticator app.

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CIO Musings - Untitled Article

CIO Musings

Two Factor Authentication - Passwords are fatally flawed for lots of reasons, and provide only one layer of security, the "something you know". Bank of America uses text messaging. Get rid of it Backups - If you don''t protect your information, you will eventually loose it. Cloud based backups are about as easy as it gets.

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Amazon's Latest Data Breach a Ripple Effect of MOVEit

SecureWorld News

Bank, HP, Delta Airlines, Leidos, Charles Schwab, 3M, and hundreds more. In light of this type of breach, companies should prepare by doing a review of what may be at risk, shoring up anti-phishing methods and awareness measures, doing backup and resiliency testing, and having appropriate communications plans in place.

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Five areas where EA matters more than ever

CIO Business Intelligence

EA can help, for example, by describing which cloud providers share the same network connections, or which shippers rely on the same ports to ensure that a “backup” provider won’t suffer the same outage as a primary provider, he says. Planning for supply chain disruption.

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Your phone is the key to your digital life. Make sure you know what to do if you lose it.

Vox

Access to just about everything I wasn’t already logged into on my computer was dependent on access to my phone, with my mobile-device-only password manager and multifactor authentication apps and text messages. Didn’t I delete my backups to free up storage space? Backup of data in the digital reality we’re in now is paramount.

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6 Internet Security Tips For 2020

Galido

When you sign up for social media, shopping and internet banking websites, always try to use different passwords for each website. If you have important data on your system, then you should always have an up to date backup of all these contents on a flash drive or external hard drive. Secure Passwords. Backing Up Data.

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