Earlier this month, a criminal posed as Barclays Bank chairman Marcus Agius to get a Barclayscard from call center processing staff. Armed with the new card, he then walked into a London Barclays branch and withdrew 10,000 pounds. The criminal may have obtained personal details about the chairman online to get the...
Tucked away in the rolling hills just south of Lexington, KY is the farming community of Mt. Vernon, KY. Dennis Weiskircher, IT Manager and Security Officer at Citizens Bank www.citizensbankrb.comhere, has seen his share of Social Engineering scams.
"I find it surprising how many smaller banks are being targeted by...
It's About Protecting the Network Endpoints
Last week's announcement of yet another unencrypted laptop being stolen - this time it is retailer The Gap's recruiting vendor and its gaping lack of security (the vendor laptop was stolen with personal information of 800,000 applicants Gap Press Release ) opens another...
Have you sat down in front of your screen and tried to discover why it is taking forever to download or you've found while troubleshooting there's been something added to the numerous operations that your PC computes? It may turn out to be that the source of your PC's slowing is spyware, software that was installed on...
Financial institutions need intrusion detection systems that incorporate wireless
The biggest credit-card hacking incident in history exploited a weakness in wireless network security that could have easily been fixed. The lesson for financial institutions is to plug all such weaknesses before wrongdoers discover...
Financial institutions need intrusion detection systems that incorporate wireless
The biggest credit-card hacking incident in history exploited a weakness in wireless network security that could have easily been fixed. The lesson for financial institutions is to plug all such weaknesses before wrongdoers discover...
Securing the network against intrusion is more than complying with the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council’s mandate for strong authentication—although it’s certainly that. It also makes good business sense. Financial institutions that implement information security technology and...
Security-naive machines are about to swarm onto your precious networks.
Brace yourself.
Brian McKenna is the editor of Infosecurity Today (www.infosecurity-magazine.com)
McKENNA: We know from surveying our readers that they are very focused on the medium term. In other words, what the security threats are going...
In our ten years’ experience in detecting, locating, and prosecuting network intruders (hackers) we have seen that, as with many offline crimes, robust law enforcement alone cannot solve the network intruder problem. To be effective, any overall strategy must include the owners and operators of the...
New data shows that on average, businesses are spending an eye-popping amount of money every month in IT resources to fight the spyware plague.FaceTime Communications, an IT security provider, surveyed more than 1,000 IT managers and end users. The key finding: spyware and other unsanctioned downloads are...
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