Information security isn't just the domain of those branded information security professionals but also requires the knowledge of nearly every other IT occupation as well as individuals in many non-technology jobs, too.
Law enforcement is not revealing details about the POS breach that hit Penn Station, but one investigator says the number of locations affected by the attack will continue to grow.
Global Payments Inc., the breached payments processor, now says the scope of its self-discovered data breach may be broader than initially reported and involve personal data collected from merchant customers.
Restaurant chain Penn Station says debit and credit card details may have been exposed in a breach that targeted 43 franchised locations. But what was the nature of the scheme?
Israel's intelligence agency supervises commercial banks' IT systems because they're considered part of the critical national infrastructure, and that's okay with the bankers. See why.
Israel is being blamed - or, perhaps, taking credit - for the creation of Flame, the sophisticated cyberspyware that has targeted organizations in the Middle East, especially its mortal enemy, the government of Iran.
Global Payments has been less than forthcoming with information about its data breach. How could this lack of transparency hurt the processor, and what's the lesson for others?
New advisories from Visa suggest that payments processor Global Payments Inc. may have been breached in June 2011 - nine months earlier than initially reported.
Payments processor First Data warns about an uptick in trolling - hackers sniffing networks for easy access to merchants' point-of-sale systems. What can banks do to help merchants prevent breaches?
If you handle critical data, you've got to be humble, advises Bob Carr, CEO of breached processor Heartland Payments System. "Anyone that thinks they're not going to be breached is being naïve."
Gartner fraud expert Avivah Litan shares ideas about how lessons learned from the Global Payments data breach can help security practitioners mitigate card-fraud risks and prevent future incidents.
What's the best strategy for communications after a data breach, like the one suffered by Global Payments Inc.? Bob Carr, CEO of Heartland Payment Systems, discusses what to say in the weeks following a breach.
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.
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.
"We are making significant progress in defining and rectifying the event," says Paul R. Garcia, CEO of Global Payments Inc., discussing the breach he says may have exposed 1.5 million payment cards.
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