Wish List from Financial Institutions to Our Customers
As the weather outside gets colder and the year draws to an end, we're thinking of what would be some of the things we'd like to give and receive as gifts during the holidays. While your personal list may be longer than this, here's the 12 things we wish all of...
Deloitte Security Survey
The world's largest financial institutions have faced a surge in the number of security attacks over the past year, particularly from external sources, according to the 2006 Global Security Survey released by the Financial Services Industry practices of the member firms of Deloitte Touche...
Cyber-criminals are targeting the most vulnerable access points within businesses - employees - to execute their attacks, a new study finds.
In its annual closely watched security report, IBM warns that although widespread virus outbreaks are on the decline, on the whole online attacks are expected to rise in 2006....
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...
Nearly a quarter of PC users are targeted by monthly phishing attempts, according to a national study of online security.
Phishing is, of course, the practice of sending bogus but authentic-looking e-mails, purportedly from a trusted organization, to consumers in hopes of tricking them into revealing personal...
"Botnet" Investigation Led by U.S. Secret Service’s Electronic Crimes Task Force and the Computer
Hacking and Intellectual Property Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office
SAN JOSE – United States Attorney Kevin V. Ryan announced that Anthony Scott Clark, 21, of Beaverton, Oregon, pleaded guilty...
The United States Attorney for the Northern District of California announced that Suibin Zhang, 37, of San Jose, California, was charged late yesterday by a federal grand jury in San Jose in a nine-count indictment alleging computer fraud; theft and unauthorized downloading of trade secrets; and the unauthorized...
Caused As Much As $20 Million in Losses to Software Industry
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The owner of one of the largest for-profit software piracy websites to operate in the United States has pleaded guilty to operating a software piracy website, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher for the Justice Department's...
Internet-related crime,
like any other crime, should be reported to appropriate law enforcement investigative
authorities at the local, state, federal, or international levels, depending
on the scope of the crime. Citizens who are aware of federal crimes
should report them to local offices...
How likely are you to be wooed into a false sense of security by a friendly face or the promise of a cash prize?A friendly, wholesome-looking team of surveyors recently set up shop in New York’s Central Park on behalf of RSA Security to find out how much personal information consumers would give up while...
In our ten years’ experience in detecting, locating, and prosecuting network intruders (hackers) we have seen that, as with many offline crimes, robust law enforcement alone cannot solve the network intruder problem. To be effective, any overall strategy must include the owners and operators of the...
Since January 1, at least 104 data incidents have been documented in the U.S., potentially affecting more than 56.2 million individuals. And that is probably just the tip of the iceberg.How many breaches don’t make the front page because the victimized company wants to avoid embarrassing publicity? We will...
Most Internet users know spam when they see it, but the vast majority are unfamiliar with terms like “podcasting,†“phishing,†and “RSS,†according to a recent study.The Pew Internet and American Life Project research, based on random telephone interviews with 1,336 Internet users,...
Hackers have changed their tactics and are exploiting flaws in popular software applications – including security programs — to break into the computers of consumers, government agencies, and businesses. What’s new about this, you might ask? The key word is “applications.” ...
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