Andrew Miller is a freelance writer specializing in financial services and information technology. He holds an MBA from Columbia University and a Master's in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has held jobs at CMP Media, MetLife, and Gartner.
The demands of new regulations, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, the Patriot Act, and disclosure statutes for security breaches, are forcing banks to implement stringent information security measures. The auditing of information technology - once a rather staid component of a an auditing firm's...
If 2005 was the year that identity theft became a household word, 2006 will be the year that banking institutions, the principal targets of most frauds, put in the necessary safeguards to ensure they can't happen.
The ease with which identity thefts were perpetrated, from stealing credit card or shoulder surfing...
The rising number of phishing attacks involving the hijacking of the brands of financial institutions poses a genuine threat to the integrity of the financial system. Fortunately, there exist defenses to deter attacks or to render them harmless. Some of these employ technology to foil would-be scammers, and other...
Phishing scams—the use of fake E-mails to dupe people into yielding up their account numbers and passwords—is on the rise. Hijacking brand names of banks, e-retailers and credit card companies, phishers often convince recipients to respond. Technical subterfuge schemes plant crimeware onto PCs to steal...
Andrew Miller- BankInfoSecurity.com Editor
The year 2005 will likely go down in history as the year of the data security breach. It was a year in which CardSystems Solutions Inc. revealed a security breach that exposed data on potentially more than 40 million payment-card accounts. DSW Shoe Warehouse disclosed the...
Andrew Miller - BankInfoSecurity.com Editor
In October, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) issued guidance for authentication in the Internet banking environment. Financial institutions are expected to achieve compliance by year-end 2006. The guidance states: "The agencies consider...
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