## Security News

### [Latitude Financial Services Hack –  How to avoid the same mistakes](https://www.bankvault.com/lattitude-financial-how-to-avoid-the-same-mistakes/)
How did the Latitude Financial Services Hack occur and what can be done to avoid this same mistakes.

### [Cybercriminals Take Money Directly from Solicitor’s Trust  Queensland Law Society](https://www.bankvault.com/cyber-criminals-take-money-directly-from-a-solicitors-trust-account/)
How Does this Happen? Isn’t 2FA Infallible? Here is a link to the Queensland Law Society article where several million dollars was hijacked. Lets go

### [773 million accounts affected by Collection #1 breach](https://www.bankvault.com/773-million-accounts-affected-by-collection-1-breach/)
The Australian Cyber Security Centre has reported a significant data breach exposing 773 million email addresses and usernames. The data breach titled ‘Collection #1’ was made

### [New guidelines for creating strong passwords](https://www.bankvault.com/new-guidelines-creating-strong-passwords/)
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued new guidelines for password security that turn accepted wisdom about creating long strings of

### [Banking trojans caught in the wild…a threat to secure online banking](https://www.bankvault.com/banking-trojans-caught-wild-threat-secure-online-banking/)
Why you need a secure browser. Whilst this recent tale of a misunderstood cybercriminal in the underworld makes for entertaining reading, it is important news

### [Banking Fobs and SMS texts create a false sense of security](https://www.bankvault.com/banking-fobs-sms-texts-create-false-sense-security/)
Two-factor authentication (2FA) was developed decades ago as a solution to the eternally frustrating problem of verifying who you are to an automated online system—like

### [Lloyds Banking Group Targeted In Cyber Attacks](https://www.bankvault.com/lloyds-banking-group-targeted-in-cyber-attacks/)
The United Kingdom is reeling from a second attack of yet another bank. This time, the attack was against one of the Big Four institutions

### [Brand New Year, Brand New Cybersecurity Resolutions!](https://www.bankvault.com/brand-new-year-brand-new-cybersecurity-resolutions/)
For the majority of us, our Christmas-New Year holiday time will soon be ending. Regardless of whether we feel refreshed or still wish we still

### [Hackers can steal your credit card details in just 6 seconds!](https://www.bankvault.com/hackers-can-steal-your-credit-card-details-in-just-6-seconds/)
Hackers stealing your credit card in just 6 seconds sounds crazy doesn’t it? Believe it or not, research from the UK’s Newcastle University published in

### [Popcorn Time Ransomware: The Easy Way to Remove It](https://www.bankvault.com/popcorn-time-ransomware-the-easy-way-to-remove-it/)
A brand new method for ransomware virus decryption has come about – but it’s something you probably wouldn’t want to join. Dubbed “Popcorn Time”, this