A Philadelphia bank and two Washington State credit unions this week revealed that their customers had been solicited in new, telephone-based phishing attacks aimed at stealing personal account information.
TOM FIELD: I wanted to ask you just to start out regarding data breach response plans. You see a lot of these. Where do you typically see that an institution has some holes in its plan? REBECCA HEROLD: Well, first and foremost, most organizations still do not have a documented privacy breach response plan. ...
If 2007 is any indication, then 2008 is going to be a wild year for financial institutions facing a slew of risk management issues.
Hanging like the sword of Damocles above all is the subprime mortgage crisis, which sees institutions looking for ways to avoid foreclosures and challenges surrounding underwriting....
It was a banner year for information security incidents, which proved to be indiscriminate. No national boundary, employee group or trusted service provider is exempt. And no breach is worth its cost in damages, reparations and loss of reputation. From these incidents, we draw 10 lessons learned to guide financial...
TJX Companies, Inc. (NYSE: TJX) has settled with all but one of the seven banks and associations that sued in a putative class action as a result of the intrusions into TJX’s computer system.
The TJX data breach. The Bank of India hack. The San Diego County wildfires. It's been a year full of memorable disasters - and some notable recoveries and regulations, too.
As we reflect on the biggest stories of 2007, it's clear that bad news was big. Some of our most popular stories were about Commerce Bank,...
The TJX Companies, Inc. (NYSE: TJX) may have agreed to pay more than $40 million in a recently-announced settlement with Visa, but the collateral damage might have been significantly worse had the case gone to trial and revealed details of the security/compliance conditions that allowed customer data to be breached....
'Tis the season - for an upsurge in phishing attacks.
Researchers at information security company Cyveillance saw more than a 300 percent jump in attacks on Thanksgiving Day. This one-day spike is a tactic used by criminals, who like to strike on holiday weekends, often targeting smaller businesses and credit...
BONI: It is very, very important that we move beyond the idea that we have to just find the source of a problem and shut it down until now we have to find the source of the problem, investigate how and why and where the problem was instituted into our environments. And then share that with law enforcement or other...
The cost of a data breach has gone up to nearly $200 per compromised customer record. And if your third-party service provider loses your customer data, the cost to you is even higher.
Bill Boni, Corporate Information Security Officer and Vice President, Motorola Corporation
Bill Boni shares lessons he has learned in his 30 year career in IT security and discusses how organizations should manage their IT security function in order to respond to emerging threats. He reviews:
• How...
Some customers of the New Jersey-based Commerce Bancorp have received notification from the bank that their identities may be compromised. The bank announced on Tuesday that an employee may have given out confidential customer information.
Richard Swart: Hi. This is Richard Swart with the Information Security Media Group, publishers of BankInfoSecurity.com and CUInfoSecurity.com. Today, we are speaking with Steven Jones, the Director of Information Security at Synovus. Good morning, Steven.
Steven Jones: Good morning. How are you?
Swart: ...
Preliminary results of the nationwide pandemic exercise for the financial services industry were released recently, and show that while the industry itself is among the most prepared, there is still much work to be done for individual institutions to be fully prepared for a true pandemic disaster.
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