The Heartland data breach and July's denial of service (DDoS) attacks against government agencies are among the biggest information security incidents of the year. And they've pushed incident response into the spotlight.
Peter Allor is on the Steering Committee of the Forum for Incident Response and Security Teams...
A veteran cybersecurity pro, Shane Sims shares his insights on trends he's seeing as cybercrime continues to hit all companies, including financial institutions. Sims is currently a Director in the Forensic Services practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he provides investigative, forensic technology, security...
A veteran cybersecurity pro, Shane Sims shares his insights on trends he's seeing as cybercrime continues to hit all companies, including financial institutions. Sims is currently a Director in the Forensic Services practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he provides investigative, forensic technology, security...
So, did anyone read about the President's Cybersecurity Action Plan? I'm assuming you've read through all 10 points. You didn't stop to ponder after the first few did you? I mean, you didn't happen to stop after number 8? The one about the incident response plan?
What happens after a major security breach? How do banking institutions go about notifying their customers - whose responsibility is it?
At BB&T in Winston-Salem, NC, the role is filled by Dick Langford, Vice President and Manager, Information Security Compliance Management. In an exclusive interview, Langford...
Heartland Payment Systems (HPY) has been removed from Visa's list of compliant service providers, and banking institutions affected by the Heartland data breach have until May 19 to file their fraud claims with Visa.
This news emerged late last week from a public statement by Visa, as well as from a letter sent by...
Is 2009 the Year of the Insider Threat?
Last August's arrest of a Countrywide employee in California illustrates the potential impact of a single insider with access to sensitive information. The FBI charged the former employee with taking 2 million names and personal information from the mortgage bank and selling...
Heartland Payment Systems (HPY) may be the only "new" data breach, after all.
A week after at least two banking institutions and a state banking association reported a new data breach that had been announced to them by Visa, the credit card company now is saying that its recent alerts to card issuers were actually...
It may be the biggest data breach we've ever seen - and an eerie harbinger of crimes to come. The Heartland Payment Systems (HPY) hack involves scores of financial institutions and tens of thousands of consumers who've had their accounts compromised by fraudsters. Crimes against processors are on the rise, and in this...
In addition to the well-publicized Heartland Payment Systems (HPY) data breach, an additional payment processor appears to have been hacked, affecting an unknown number of banking institutions, consumers and cards.
Two banking institutions and a state banking association have reported this new breach to their...
I read the news today, oh, boy.
About another credit card processor that supposedly has been breached, exposing consumers and cards to potential fraud.
This news comes almost a month exactly after Heartland Payment Systems (HPY) went public with news of its data breach sometime in 2008.
The number of financial institutions that stepped forward to say their customers' credit or debit cards were compromised because of the Heartland Payment Systems (HPY) data breach has now reached more than 500.
Little more than a month ago, on Jan. 20, Heartland, a Princeton, NJ-based payments processor, went...
A consortium of federal agencies and private organizations has just released the first version of the Consensus Audit Guidelines (CAG), which defines the most critical cyber security controls to protect government agencies and critical infrastructure industries, including financial services.
Scores of banking institutions have stepped forward and said they and their customers have been impacted by the Heartland Payment Systems data breach. But what can and should they do to understand and respond to the breach?
In an exclusive interview, Doug Johnson of the American Bankers Association...
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