With a court decision handed down in Texas, a lingering lawsuit against Heartland Payment Systems and two acquiring banks, KeyBank and Heartland Bank, appears to finally have been put to rest.
The cost of a data breach is down, say the latest Ponemon Institute study. But as the Global Payments breach shows, organizations still have many reasons to be concerned, says researcher Larry Ponemon.
How might the Global Payments breach saga unfold? A look back on the Heartland Payments System incident and investigation offers clues to what could be a rocky road ahead.
Global Payments' public response to the data breach that exposed card data on 1.5 million debit and credit accounts has, frankly, raised more questions than offered answers.
In the wake of the Global Payments Inc. data breach, what should banking institutions do to ease customers' concerns and contain any potential fraud? Experts weigh in with three key tips.
Performing a job effectively most of the time doesn't cut it in IT security, as the Internal Revenue Service is being reminded by Treasury Department auditors.
Should you accept a Facebook friend request from your boss? And if you don't accept the invitation, could that decision possibly hurt your career? I asked our advisers, who offer thoughtful insights.
Has there been an undisclosed data breach? In the wake of the latest revelations by Global Payments Inc., some fraud analysts wonder whether they might be seeing signs of a separate breach.
Gartner Analyst Avivah Litan, one of the first fraud experts to report the Global Payments Inc. data breach, says the latest revelations raise more questions than answers about the incident's impact.
The compromise of bank cards at two banks in New Zealand has garnered attention to the growing ATM fraud trend. What are the banks and law enforcement doing to address the losses?
In its second formal statement about its data breach, payments processor Global Payments Inc. says this incident is confined to North America and involves fewer than 1.5 million payment cards.
In the wake of the Global Payments Inc. card breach, ID theft expert Neal O'Farrell says banks and credit unions must be proactive with outreach to customers. What should institutions' messages include?
IPv6, known to some as the new Internet, is architected to be safer than IPv4, but that doesn't mean organizations shouldn't take steps to assure the security in Internet Protocol version 6, American Registry for Internet Numbers' John Curran says.
"If they can do it against RSA, that makes most of the other companies vulnerable," says Army Gen. Keith Alexander, the military's Cyber Command commander and National Security Agency director.
Technology is only part of the solution. To truly combat phishing, banking institutions need to address a trickier part of the equation. They need to change human behavior. Here are experts' tips.
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