What could be worse than a ransomware infection? How about getting infected by "torture ransomware" that uses a sadistic puppet to taunt you, slowly deleting your encrypted files while increasing the ransom demand until you pay?
Apple's QuickTime media player and web browser plug-in should be immediately expunged from all Windows systems, security experts warn, in a reminder of the dangers of using outdated software - especially web browser plug-ins.
Enacting legislation to compel tech companies to help law enforcement decrypt data on mobile devices would diminish America's standing as a moral leader in the world, a nation looked up to by billions of people, even with our many flaws.
Statements issued by the United States and China give a different take on cybersecurity talks scheduled to take place next week between presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jingling.
Standing in line to vote yesterday evening at my local middle school, I thought there were a lot of things that the 44th President will have to fix: the economy, the country, the federal government, the out of whack federal budget. Whew! That's a lot, just on a national scale; we're not even talking global problems...
Yes, yes, we all know the economy is hanging by threads right now. Banks that have been around forever are closing around us, the largest financial institutions are faltering, the stock market is down and up and down and up again, the Treasury is pumping hundreds of billions of dollars into the economy, and we are all...
This time the news was so big it couldn't even wait til Friday.
Up to this point, as you know, whenever the FDIC has closed a bank this year, it's waited til after markets have closed for the week - let things settle over the weekend, and then the failed bank can reopen under its new flag on Monday.
But...
To me, this is one of the sleeper stories of the year.
The ID Theft Red Flags Rule, Business Continuity and Anti-Money Laundering have dominated the headlines - and banking/security priorities. But recent attention paid to Application Security has the potential to fuel one major fire drill in 2009.
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 ...
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