Workplace violence - it's one of the most common but least understood risks to all organizations.
From robberies gone awry to bullies in the workplace to domestic anger spilling over from home, the financial institution is rife for violent situations. In this interview, Kim Matlon, COO of R&A Crisis Management...
Arizona Central Credit Union of Phoenix, AZ., was hit with a phishing attack via text message to its members in March. While the attack was distributed on a small scale and didn't have much impact, the incident did roust the credit union staff into quick action.
Sadly, such incidents are a familiar...
One midwestern credit union (which prefers to remain anonymous), with nearly $200 million in assets and more than 30,000 members, has been phished four times -- the most recent in 2006, with three of those incidents occurring within a 90-day period.
So what do you do if your financial institution's brand is...
The hackers that broke into Hannaford Brothers, a northeast U.S. grocery chain, may have spawned other attacks, including one at Okemo Resorts in Ludlow VT. As law enforcement and forensic experts continue to sift through the evidence of these attacks, the retailer and the ski resort remain mum on further...
The best offense is a good defense, especially when it comes to fighting criminal hackers.
Dr. Markus Jakobsson, principal scientist at Palo Alto Research Center and an adjunct associate professor at Indiana University, and Zulfikar Ramzan, a Senior Principal Researcher in the Advanced Threat Research Group at...
Q & A with Lexis-Nexis' AML Compliance Expert Debra Geister
Debra Geister is director of fraud prevention and compliance solutions at LexisNexis' Risk and Information Analytics Group, and has spent more than 10 years in the anti-money laundering (AML) compliance arena. We recently interviewed her on what she sees...
From Second Life to former NY Gov. Eliot Spitzer, anti-money laundering has dominated the news in 2008. To gain new insights in the latest trends, threats and solutions, we interviewed veteran AML investigator Kevin Sullivan on:
What's new in BSA compliance;
How AML has evolved over the past decade;
What's most...
Just over one year ago, James H. Freis, Jr. was appointed Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the U.S. regulatory body charged with battling the crime of money laundering. In this role, he leads FinCEN's efforts to administrate the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), cracking down on both money...
Ken Rijock is a former banking attorney at an international law firm. He's also a former money launderer.
He spent the 1980s as a money launderer and advisor to drug traffickers, until he was arrested and served a U.S. federal prison sentence for racketeering and money laundering. While serving his sentence, he...
Risk management and the insider threat.
These are the two dominant themes emerging from the conversations and presentations at the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week.
From the keynote stage to the expo floor, with stops in between at the program sessions, information security experts, vendors and...
When Michael Barrett, CISO of PayPal, joined the company two years ago, he asked how senior leaders were fighting the phishing problem.
"Technically, we don't have a phishing problem," he was told.
Yes, scores of PayPal customers were inundated daily with fake emails attempting to lure them to fake websites,...
Imagine living in a country where electronic voting is universal, there are 39 million Internet users, and 25 million of them are also Internet banking users.
Welcome to Brazil, whose online banking services and lessons-learned were presented to attendees at the RSA Conference on Tuesday.
According to Maria...
Bank of America is well known for its mobile banking services. Currently, the institution has 750,000 mobile banking customers receiving services on 400 different kinds of devices.
But did you realize that one of the ways BoA secures its electronic offerings is by providing its customers with abuse reporting...
In stepping up the fight against cyber crime, Michael Chertoff, Secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has a simple request: Send some of your best & brightest employees to help the government's efforts.
"We want your ideas, insights and I daresay your employees," Chertoff told the crowd in a...
Harry Rhulen, CEO of Firestorm recently answered questions regarding business continuity planning and the overall preparedness of the financial services industry - especially when it comes to pandemic planning. Firestorm (www.Firestorm.com) performs business continuity planning, vulnerability analysis, risk mitigation...
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