U.S. officials have confirmed the existence of a new leaker exposing national security documents, CNN reports. The leak apparently involves documents prepared by the National Counterterrorism Center.
A multi-layered approach known as "context-aware security" is the most effective strategy for fighting both insider and external cyberthreats, says Gartner analyst Avivah Litan, who explains how this strategy works.
Using technology to devalue card data, and leveraging data analytics, are essential to efforts to crack down on fraud, Visa's Ellen Richey said in her keynote presentation at the San Francisco Fraud Summit.
The recent Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report notes more than 16,000 incidents in the past year where sensitive information was unintentionally exposed. "Nearly every incident involves some element of human error," the report notes.
There's a ton of event content to choose from at Infosecurity Europe 2014, which runs from April 29 through May 1, and here are some of the sessions that caught one editor's eye.
Eight defendants have been charged in an alleged identity theft fraud scheme involving the theft of personal information from a call center for use in unauthorized wire transfers and to obtain payment cards.
Fraudsters are increasingly turning to prepaid cards to move money and perpetrate fraud, says payments fraud expert Tom Wills. Today, prepaid cards are the new money mules, he says.
When a former U.S. president acknowledges that he won't use e-mail to correspond with foreign leaders to avoid snooping by the NSA, you know the image of America as a bastion of freedom - at least online - has dropped a few more notches.
Security experts are sizing up the challenges that would be involved in implementing a federal government proposal to continuously monitor employees and contractors with security clearances in hopes of preventing leaks of sensitive information.
The investigation of the disappearance of Malaysian Flight 370 is raising issues that are very similar to those considered in cybersecurity cases, ranging from the insider threat to deleting data from a computer.
At his March 11 Senate confirmation hearing, Navy Vice Adm. Michael Rogers, chosen by President Obama to be the next director of the National Security Agency, declines to characterize NSA leaker Edward Snowden as a traitor.
The leader of a crime ring that used stolen Social Security numbers to commit $4 million worth of bank, credit card and tax fraud has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for his role.
As the U.S. federal government tightens procedures to prevent Edward Snowden-type insider leaks, agency leaders are discovering that implementing well-thought-out plans isn't easy.
Buried deep within a 308-page report from a presidential panel on ways to tighten federal surveillance and IT security programs are important recommendations on how to mitigate the insider threat at federal agencies.
How can organizations mitigate the risks posed by the unintentional insider threat? The strategy requires a combination of technical and non-technical solutions, says researcher Randy Trzeciak.
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