Community banks must address DDoS risks. But they need more support and direction from vendors and core processors to know which mitigation strategies to pursue.
A rider covertly added to the law to fund the government through September requires select agencies to assess technology purchases for cyber-espionage and sabotage, a process that could make it harder to buy wares to secure IT.
Illinois-based bank holding company QCR decided to make a shift in its online-banking platform strategy after a risk assessment revealed security enhancements and customer experience improvements were needed.
Intel has added privacy to the portfolio of its top information security executive, Malcolm Harkins, who says too many information security professionals are "color blind or tone deaf" to privacy, wrongly thinking strong data protection provides privacy safeguards.
Extortionists employing telephony-denial-of-service attacks - a close relative to distributed-denial-of-service attacks - are targeting emergency communications centers that dispatch first responders.
New and proposed FFIEC guidance for fraud prevention and social media spurred Bank of the West in March to launch a viral campaign aimed at fraud awareness. What are the campaign's key elements?
Attacks against Facebook, Twitter and other organizations over the past few months should send a message to business owners that they need to better fund cybersecurity, IT security expert Mischel Kwon says.
Conventional wisdom suggests China isn't interested in disabling industrial control systems in the U.S. After all, such an act would be against its own economic interest. But is that type of thinking right?
The attackers' so-called Brobot, which on March 12 struck six banks, is growing, experts say. Yet only a fraction of the botnet's capabilities has been used. What else do the latest attacks reveal?
More hackers are attacking payment processors and merchants with enhanced malware to compromise credit and debit card data. What steps can be taken to thwart the threat?
Companies wanting to share cyber-threat information with the government and other businesses should adopt the U.S. Defense Department's doctrine of information superiority, says Lares Institute Chief Executive Andrew Serwin.
Will Pelgrin and Rich Licht of the Center for Internet Security see a strong link between cyber and physical security, and that has led to the creation of a new unit at the center to help local and state governments to secure both.
John Stewart, chief security officer at network provider Cisco, says too many organizations develop IT security policies that are more complex than they need to be.
U.S. banks have been hit by a new wave of distributed-denial-of-service attacks, and experts say the botnet behind the attacks is getting stronger. Learn about the latest developments.
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