The best offense is a good defense, especially when it comes to fighting criminal hackers.
Dr. Markus Jakobsson, principal scientist at Palo Alto Research Center and an adjunct associate professor at Indiana University, and Zulfikar Ramzan, a Senior Principal Researcher in the Advanced Threat Research Group at...
Risk management and the insider threat.
These are the two dominant themes emerging from the conversations and presentations at the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week.
From the keynote stage to the expo floor, with stops in between at the program sessions, information security experts, vendors and...
When Michael Barrett, CISO of PayPal, joined the company two years ago, he asked how senior leaders were fighting the phishing problem.
"Technically, we don't have a phishing problem," he was told.
Yes, scores of PayPal customers were inundated daily with fake emails attempting to lure them to fake websites,...
Imagine living in a country where electronic voting is universal, there are 39 million Internet users, and 25 million of them are also Internet banking users.
Welcome to Brazil, whose online banking services and lessons-learned were presented to attendees at the RSA Conference on Tuesday.
According to Maria...
Bank of America is well known for its mobile banking services. Currently, the institution has 750,000 mobile banking customers receiving services on 400 different kinds of devices.
But did you realize that one of the ways BoA secures its electronic offerings is by providing its customers with abuse reporting...
In stepping up the fight against cyber crime, Michael Chertoff, Secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has a simple request: Send some of your best & brightest employees to help the government's efforts.
"We want your ideas, insights and I daresay your employees," Chertoff told the crowd in a...
The recent breach of a Maine-based grocery chain may just be the beginning of a novel and sophisticated attack method. Earlier this week, the Okemo Mountain Resort, a ski resort in Vermont, announced that it had been hacked in a similar manner.
News of the Hannaford Brothers breach broke on March 17, and...
How the identity theft of your customers leads to the erosion of your company's profits and good name from Perimeter eSecurity
Identity theft is a catch-all term for crimes involving illegal usage of another individual's identity. The most common form of identity theft is credit card fraud. Identity theft is often...
The Federal Trade Commission has settled with discount retailer TJX, citing the retailer failed to provide "reasonable and appropriate security for sensitive consumer information."
This is the second settlement TJX has made as a result of the largest consumer breach in history. The first settlement, with VISA, came...
In response to the announcement that TJX was not levied any monetary fine as part of its settlement with the FTC, David Taylor, President of the PCI Security Vendor Alliance says this shows TJX's legal team is "a lot stronger than their security team."
OK, so not everybody's confidential information generates the same level of interest as Barack Obama's, Hillary Clinton's or John McCain's passport files.
But the latest State Department scandal nevertheless holds a relevant lesson for financial institutions: Be ever mindful of your customers' privacy....
Scores of financial institutions received alerts from Visa and MasterCard this past week in the wake of news from the Maine-based Hannaford Brothers grocery chain that 4.2 million customer card transactions were compromised by hackers.
More than 1,800 of those credit card numbers have already been used for fraudulent...
Over 50% of all active phishing URLs are a result of the Rock Phish Gang
The Rock Phish Gang is not your average group of phishers, but a sophisticated international crime syndicate with superior IT skills. Responsible for over $100M in fraud losses per year, the Rock Phish Gang presents a formidable twist on the...
There are many people who fall victim to identity theft every year. But an even darker threat looms around people who have recently lost a loved one. Growing numbers of identity theft deal with victims who have died.
As U.S. citizens scramble to get their financial affairs in order before the April 15th federal tax return deadline, fraudsters are readying to take full advantage with scams of all shapes and sizes.
To help taxpayers muddle unscathed through this season's onslaught, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) just issued...
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