Extradited Russian national Vladimir Drinkman, who's been charged with masterminding the largest-ever hack attack in U.S. history, this week pleaded not guilty in U.S. federal court to 11 charges relating to the theft of 160 million payment cards.
Email fraud has existed since the advent of email. But the schemes are evolving and impacting organizations' bottom lines. Robert Holmes of Return Path offers new strategies to defeat fraud attempts.
Target is the high-profile example, but many organizations have been breached through third-party vulnerabilities. Where are the security gaps, and how can they be filled? BitSight's Stephen Boyer offers insight.
The Anunak/Carbanak gang continues to rob financial services firms and retailers, in part with ATM malware. A new report says the cybercrime gang has stolen up to $1 billion from banks in Russia, the U.S. and beyond.
The volume of spam messaging is down, but the bogus messages that are getting through? They're more malicious than ever, says Cisco's Jason Brvenik. He shares insights from Cisco's 2015 Security Report.
From the information provided in interviews, Forrester has constructed a Total Economic Impact (TEI) framework for those organizations considering implementing IBM Datacap. The objective of the framework is to identify the cost, benefit, flexibility, and risk factors that affect the investment decision, to help...
Defining data via data discovery and classification is an often overlooked, yet critical, component of data security and control. Security and risk (S&R) pros can't expect to adequately protect data if they don't have knowledge about what data exists, where it resides, its value to the organization, and who can use...
The outcome of any big data analytics project, however, is only as good as the quality of the data being used. As big data analytics solutions have matured and as organizations have developed greater expertise with big data technologies he quality and trustworthiness of the data sources themselves are emerging as key...
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With a spate of recent breaches taking place at well-known companies including Target, Home Depot and Sony, organizations must reevaluate the security of the code running within the enterprise. Leaving flawed code in place almost invites hackers in to the company's network. Why has application security not kept pace...
In a Feb. 13 keynote speech at a cybersecurity summit, President Obama described the cyberworld as the "wild, wild West" and the American government as the sheriff. Then he signed an executive order aimed at boosting cyberthreat information sharing.
Advanced threats and targeted attacks have clearly proven their ability to penetrate standard security defenses and remain undetected for months while siphoning valuable data or carrying out destructive actions. According to a 2014 Ponemon Institute study, the average cost of just a single targeted attack on a large...
Welcome to the golden age of hacking. This is the reality that businesses operate in today. An amalgamation of legacy and new technology systems and processes, traditional approaches to information security, and explosion of growth in data collection is pushing enterprises to a breaking point. Hardly a week goes by...
Within health systems such as Navicent Health, the already serious risk of targeted threats is compounded. Besides laptops, notebook computers, and smartphones, the hospital's network hosts numerous biomedical devices that are not under the control of the in-house
technology team, and do not run standard antivirus...
According to the Counterfeiting Intelligence Bureau, fraud in trade globally is estimated at $600B a year and it's often a tool to finance other illicit activity like terrorism. With the expansion of international trade, the risks for financial institutions increase even further. Main topics include:
The current...
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