Blippy, a new social media data sharing site that is financial form of Twitter, has unleashed the unthinkable idea of publishing every single purchase for public consumption on the Internet.
I'm sorry, but weren't we just celebrating the holidays?
Unbelievable how fast the New Year has flown by already. It seems like we're all trying to get 12 months worth of work done in one.
The Payment Cards Center of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia has published "Heartland Payment Systems: Lessons Learned from a Data Breach," a discussion paper on the Heartland Payment Systems breach.
The paper is a summation of a workshop held in August 2009 at the Philadelphia FRB, where Heartland CEO Bob...
The latest report from the Anti Phishing Working Group paints a distressing picture for anyone doing transactions online, says Dave Jevans, Chairman of the APWG.
All phishing numbers are on the rise. The number of unique phishing reports submitted to APWG for the third quarter of 2009 reached a record 40,621 in...
Privacy, data security and consumer protection - three of the top concerns to organizations everywhere. And they are three of the topics nearest and dearest to Lydia Parnes, former director of the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) Bureau of Consumer Protection.
Now a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Wilson...
Word on the street is that ATM skimming is now the most profitable crime, say Houston, Texas police who arrested two men accused of putting a skimming device on a local bank's ATM.
Houston Police Lieutenant Robert Manzo says that John Pierre Griffin and an unidentified man were caught putting the device on an ATM...
Risk management today - it's less about pure technology, more about business acumen and pure communication skills.
This is the position of Kenneth Newman, VP & Information Security Manager at Central Pacific Bank. In an interview about top risk management trends, Newman discusses:
Scope of the risk management...
Five banks were closed by state and federal regulators on Friday, Jan. 22. The largest of the failed institutions was Charter Bank, a $1.2 billion bank based in Santa Fe, NM.
President Obama this past week made strong remarks to spur Congress and populist support toward banking regulatory reform.
But what's likely to happen? And when?
"There might be stronger regulatory reform than people thought six months ago," says Christie Sciacca, formerly with the Federal Deposit Insurance...
What's the cost of a data breach?
The Ponemon Institute is out with its 5th annual "Cost of a Data Breach" study, and in an exclusive interview Dr. Larry Ponemon discusses:
The current cost of a data breach - and how it's risen since 2009;
Data breach trends across industry;
What organizations should do to...
It has now been one year since the Heartland Payments System breach was made public. What lessons have been learned and what more needs to be done to improve the security of the payment industry?
We asked four information security experts for their take on Heartland: One year later.
"We need government to modernize the laws, adapt them to the cloud and adopt new measures to protect privacy and promote security" Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith says.
I remember Jan. 20, 2009, as a date of historic significance. Not only did the country see the swearing in of the first African American U.S. President, but at the same time as the country's eyes were on Washington, D.C., there was another historic event happening.
At least two banking institutions have posted messages on their websites, alerting members to be wary of a bogus application distributed on mobile phone platforms.
Lincoln National Corp., a financial services company based in Radnor, PA disclosed a security vulnerability that may have leaked personal data of 1.2 million customers.
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