I just concluded a strange twenty-four hour period as relates to current events.
It started on Monday evening, when I read an Associated Press story online about how the Bush administration ignored the developing problems in the financial markets.
I'm excited about the news we're announcing today re: opening access to all of the articles on our site.
With more people able to view our stories w/o first having to register or log in, that will enable more opportunities for folks to comment on our stories, which then fuels one of my favorite parts of this job:...
What better time to be discussing identity theft?
It's Cyber Monday today - the day designated as the official start of the online holiday shopping season - and if we've learned anything in recent weeks, it's that tough economic times heighten the risk of crimes such as identity theft. So, now is a great time to...
The annual BAI Retail Delivery Conference & Expo was held in Orlando, Fl in late November, focusing on innovative strategies and technologies.
Nick Burke, Director of Sales for Information Security Media Group (ISMG), publisher of BankInfoSecurity.com and CUinfoSecurity.com, attended the event, meeting with many of...
There's so much we can't control today. The global economy, the fickle stock market, rampant layoffs, decisions being made in Washington, D.C. All these elements affect us, but there's little to nothing we can do to influence them.
Helpless feeling, no?
That's why this week, in advance of the Thanksgiving...
As wild as the end of 2008 has been, I can't get my mind off 2009.
This is because I'm just now helping to put the finishing touches on our annual State of Banking Information Security survey, which helps us take the pulse of the banking/security community, so we can gauge the priorities for the year ahead.
Last...
At a time when resources are tight and risks are abundant, many banking institutions are going mobile.
This is one of the findings of the recent Banking Confidence Survey, wherein 41% of respondents say their immediate business objectives include investment in new and enhanced services such as mobile banking. Their...
OK, so first came the subprime mortgage debacle, and it was bad.
Then came the global credit crunch, and it was worse.
Reading the economic tea leaves, the feds in October swept in with a $700 billion economic relief package designed to bail out some of the nation's troubled financial institutions. So, then we...
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...
Hard to believe that November 1 is already upon us, bringing the onset of the Identity Theft Red Flags Rule compliance. We've been reading about and discussing it for so long that it almost seemed as if though it would always remain six months away, but even a watched regulation eventually transitions into effect. ...
It's interesting how with everything going on in our industry this year, between the credit crisis, bank mergers, bank closings and emerging regulatory compliance requirements (and on and on and on), that we haven't had time to discuss much else. However, work continues out in the trenches, money is still moving into...
The crime of deception is now even more deceptive.
Multi-channel fraud - schemes that are launched simultaneously via telephone, Internet, in person and via mail - is a growing concern for financial institutions. And the linked crimes aren't always easy to spot.
In this exclusive interview, security expert Diana...
I just have to chuckle sometimes when I read headlines like the one that appeared recently - 'Dark Market' Takedown: Exclusive Cyber Club for Crooks Exposed.
It seems that the FBI is getting pretty clever at "blending" into the cyber criminal world. A tip of the hat goes to Shawn Henry, the FBI Cyber Division...
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...
The World Bank, an internationally-supported institution that provides loans to developing countries, is reported to have suffered a network intrusion that one insider labeled "an unprecedented crisis."
The breach, first reported by Fox News, alleges that servers in the Washington, D.C.-based bank's treasury unit...
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