Phishing -- It’s not a matter of if it will occur at your institution -- expect phishing to happen at your institution. Phishers are not dumb. They head toward where the money is – in the customer accounts at banks and credit unions.
So what does a typical attack look like? First, they swoop in, throw...
A phishing incident response plan for financial institutions isn’t written just for good business practice, it’s also a regulatory requirement too.
While it is a challenge to put an incident response plan that meets your regulator’s minimum requirements, you also want to have a well thought out...
Given the high cost of containing information security breaches, financial institutions have invested lots of time and money into developing incident response programs. But how do they know if their program is working properly?
The best offense is a good defense, is the adage. For financial institutions part of the defense to protect your customers from becoming victims of identity theft is educating them.
In this webinar, you will be privy to the following topics of discussion:
Describe malware, crimeware intrusions and how they relate to phishing;
Overview of current attacks and help to anticipate likely trends;
Describe different ways clients are attacked, understanding of proactive defenses;
Describe...
Overview:
• Latest news on the crimeware and phishing fronts
• Why average users can’t always sniff out those phishy emails
• Other cybercrime that financial institutions should be worried about
• Strong authentication - is it helping? What needs to be done further
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Financial institutions need to realize cyber criminals who target internet users with phishing attempts aren’t going away anytime soon, says information security expert Aaron Emigh. “They’re moving away from the purely deception based attacks (simple emails in your inbox with links that the...
Banks and credit unions need to do a better job to protect their customers from phishing, and strong authentication is only one part of the equation, says Aaron Emigh during a CUInfoSecurity.com podcast.
Aaron Emigh is a well known expert in information security. He’s the author of the U.S Secret service SF...
LINDA MCGLASSON: Are we in information security becoming too complacent? I mean, we have a lot of zero-day threats, hundred thousand node botnet sending us virus threats and all things like that, and those of us in information security, you know, look at the situation and think that this is normal operation...
Learn how you can protect your entire online user base without compromising the bottom line.
So your financial institution has met the compliance guidance to provide stronger authentication for customer data and transactions. Now what? That is only the tip of the iceberg in deploying a long-term security...
The alert from OCC about a 419 scam appearing to come from the US House of Representatives’ Financial Services Committee isn’t something new -- this type of scam is just a new twist to something that has been around for many years.
As long as there are people who believe they can get something from...
Would your customers recognize and detect a well-designed phishing site that was targeting them? The unfortunate answer is probably not. Phishing websites designed with high credibility fooled a high percentage of participants in a recent study. “Why Phishing Works,†a white paper authored by researchers...
Authors of a proof of concept paper called "Drive By Pharming" say that by viewing a malicious web page users can set off changes in a broadband router or wireless access point, making the computer connected to it susceptible to attack.
The paper, authored by researchers Zulfikar Ramzan, from Symantec, and Markus...
To build systems shielding users from fraudulent (or phishing) websites, designers need to know which attack strategies work and why. This paper provides the first empirical evidence about which malicious strategies are
successful at deceiving general users. We first analyzed a large set of captured phishing attacks...
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