As financial institutions scramble to meet the Nov. 1 deadline for Identity Theft Red Flags Rule compliance, the operative word is "prevention" - as in Identity Theft Prevention Program.
And the key to making prevention work, observers say, is a sound customer awareness program that goes beyond statement stuffers...
Everyone was watching the Olympics this past month and saw lots of records being broken. But there is one record no one want to be included in -- the record number of 449 data breaches that have happened (and been made public) and recorded by the Identity Theft Resource Center.
Unfortunately for some unlucky...
The Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon) has announced that the data breach that occurred back in May is much bigger than the 4.5 million records originally announced. The bank now says that another 8 million customers were affected by the breach, bringing the total figure to 12.5 million, which may make it the...
GLBA who? Bank Secrecy what? Insider Threat?...is that something mob-related?
Your customers may not even know your institution is examined for security compliance by the banking regulatory agencies, and so most likely will have never even heard about the ID Theft Red Flags Rule and the impending November 1 ...
With four months to go in 2008, the number of data breaches on the Identity Theft Resource Center's (www.idtheftcenter.org) Breach List has already passed the 446 breaches reported by ITRC for all of 2007.
Last Friday, the number of data breaches hit 449. ITRC's founder Linda Foley cautiously says this milestone is...
So, I'd started my weekly blog entry intending to discuss application security (I'm keenly interested in what the just-released BIS survey is going to reveal) when the following headline came across on my BIS RSS feed "Social Engineering Hits Brit Bank Head, Victim of Fraud."
You'll have to forgive me for being so...
With the Identity Theft Red Flags Rule compliance date creeping closer, we contacted several banking institutions from around the country for their insights on keeping an information security training program robust and interesting.
We all know that employee and customer awareness are a big part of Identity Theft Red Flags Rule compliance. But what exactly is missing from banking institutions' current awareness programs, which must meet the new standards by Nov. 1?
We recently caught up with representatives of banking regulatory agencies to...
It must have just ruined his "holiday" or vacation when Andy Hornby, the head of British bank HBOS got the call from his own fraud investigators last week that his personal bank account had been breached.
The HBOS plc Group, which encompasses The Halifax and Bank of Scotland, is the UK's largest mortgage and...
A Wells Fargo bank access code was used to steal the personal information of roughly 5,000 consumers, leading the bank to conduct a full-scale inquiry into the data breach.
Wells Fargo says it was notified on July 1 by MicroBilt, an online consumer and commercial credit bureau information provider, that someone had...
Maybe the Countrywide television ads that constantly run on cable news shows I watch on weekends will now tout, "Finance your mortgage with Countrywide, and have your identity stolen at the same time for mere pennies."
The recent arrest of a former Countrywide employee in the insider identity theft case, where an...
Gramm-Leach-Bliley - it's at the heart of every financial institution's security program. In this exclusive interview, Nathan Johns, formerly of the FDIC, discusses current GLBA compliance trends, including:
Where institutions are most challenged to meet compliance;
Where they are seeing successes;
Vendor...
In the wake of the arrests of 11 hackers tied to the TJX data breach, security experts everywhere are warning of bigger, bolder threats to come.
So, what should banking institutions have learned from TJX-style breaches, and what can they do now to protect their customers and critical financial/informational...
To me, it was a given.
In the wake of recent news of IndyMac and other bank failures, it seemed safe to say that U.S. banking institutions were dealing with a bit of a crisis of confidence. I mean, I didn't imagine that line of anxious customers outside IndyMac, did I?
But then I got a recent note from a...
A former Countrywide Financial Corp. employee was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation earlier this month in Los Angeles for stealing and selling sensitive personal information, including social security numbers on an estimated 2 million mortgage loan applicants from around the country for the last two...
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