The TJX Companies, Inc. announced on Tuesday it has settled with a multi-state group of 41 Attorneys General, resolving the states' investigations related to the 2005 breach of TJX's computer system. The breach made headlines, as an estimated 94 million credit card numbers were taken in the hack. The company will pay...
Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter.com. These are just a few of the most popular social networking websites that are used extensively to find, meet and greet new people through a vast array of advanced web tools.
Social networking sites allow individuals and organizations to build communities. But just as social...
A Tampa, FL-based credit union has notified 56,000 members that their Visa check cards were exposed to fraud as a result of the Heartland Payment Systems (HPY) data breach announced back in January.
Suncoast Schools Federal Credit Union discovered only at the end of May that some of its customers could be in danger...
The Heartland Payment Systems (HPY) data breach came as an unpleasant surprise to many financial institutions and their customers in early 2009. What are the threats we should eye as we look ahead to 2010?
In an exclusive interview, Bryan Sartin of Verizon Business, discusses the company's exhaustive research of...
For just over six months now, the banking regulatory agencies have examined institutions for compliance with the ID Theft Red Flags Rule, and they have just released a document addressing Frequently Asked Questions about the regulation.
Register for this exclusive webinar to hear from a former information security...
In the face of fraud, enterprise authentication is the key to helping to prevent information security breaches. But how do you deploy solutions that are at once versatile, compliant and cost-effective?
Steve Neville, Director of Identity Products and Solutions at Entrust, discusses:
The top enterprise...
Email security is an issue for businesses and agencies of all sizes. To tackle that challenge, BITS and eCert Inc. have just released a new paper entitled "Email Sender Authentication Deployment."
In an exclusive interview, Paul Smocer, VP of Security at BITS, discusses:
Top email security challenges facing...
Texas attorney Richard Coffman was the first to file a class action suit against Heartland Payment Systems (HPY) after its data breach was announced publicly this past January.
In an exclusive interview, Coffman discusses:
The status of legal actions against Heartland;
What's unique about the Heartland case;...
The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation in Louisville, KY on Wednesday issued its decision to consolidate the class action suits brought against Heartland Payment Systems (HPY).
The lawsuits will be heard in the Southern District Court of Texas in Houston by Judge Lee H. Rosenthal. The decision notes that...
In the face of fraud, enterprise authentication is the key to helping to prevent information security breaches. But how do you deploy solutions that are at once versatile, compliant and cost-effective?
Steve Neville, Director of Identity Products and Solutions at Entrust, discusses:
The top enterprise...
Data and privacy protection - there's much that government, industry and consumers alike can do to improve information security. And the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is at the heart of education and enforcement efforts.
In an exclusive interview, the FTC's Joel Winston discusses:
Top privacy risks facing...
A former bank teller in Massachusetts has been charged with fraud and aggravated identity theft in a $270,000 fraud scheme. The FBI investigation led to a 25-year-old who worked as a bank teller at a Bank of America branch in Peabody, MA.
The Heartland Payment Systems (HPY) data breach may be the fraud story of year (so far), but ATM and debit card thefts are growing steadily and frighteningly at financial institutions.
Here are the top ATM/debit card fraud trends
Driving home every day along the New Jersey highways, I often see the signs offering "Save Your Home from Foreclosure" with a toll free number to call for more information.
It is the sign of the times. Foreclosure rescue scams are on the rise, along with mortgage fraud.
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Angelo Mozilo, the former chief executive of the mortgage lender Countrywide Financial, and two other company executives with civil fraud on Thursday.
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