The recent announcement by Fidelity National Information Services, a financial processing company, that one of its employees at a subsidiary stole 2.3 million consumer records containing credit card, bank account and other personal information is yet another drop in the bucket of data leakage.
Research from McAfee’s Avert Labs shows threats including phishing web sites are on the rise, as expected. But other pests such as remote-controlled bots show unpredicted signs of decrease.
Today, we will be speaking with Stephen Northcutt, CEO of the SANs Technology Institute, a postgraduate level IT security college, and an acknowledged expert in training and certification. He founded the GIAC certification and is author and co-author of numerous books, including the seminal book in intrusion...
The deadline of June 30th has come and gone, and thousands of companies have demonstrated that they are incapable of complying with a set of security guidelines to prevent data breaches and protect credit card data against identity theft. These security guidelines are from the Payment Card Industry (PCI).
As an employee at your institution, you’re a cog in the great wheel that makes everything run. You’ve got responsibilities and work hard to answer all inquiries and requests that come over your desk. A major portion of your work is done on a computer, over the email system your institution gave you...
Here are some tips to follow to protect your personal and work related data.
Use and maintain anti-virus software and a firewall - Protect yourself against viruses and Trojan horses that may steal or modify the data on your own computer and leave you vulnerable by using anti-virus software and a firewall.
Malicious code is not always hidden in web page scripts or unusual file formats. Attackers may corrupt types of files that you would recognize and typically consider safe, so you should take precautions when opening files from other people.
With the headlines announcing almost on a weekly basis another data breach at businesses, educational institutions and medical facilities, a recent study shows consumers are modifying their purchasing behavior, including online buying, out of concern for the security of their personal information.
The "2007 Consumer...
As the compliance date set for June 30, 2007 has passed, thousands of companies have yet to show that they are in compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI-DSS). The Payment Card Industry set that date for all organizations that store, process or transmit credit card payments were to be...
Companies are scrambling to meet the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS). Financial institutions and merchants alike have to be in compliance - or face financial penalties and loss of processing privileges. This is new ground for many organizations, introducing a whole new set of technologies and...
Curtis Moroney, systems administrator at Mississippi-based Britton & Koontz Bank, had been dealing with spam-related issues for almost ten years and had seen the problem get progressively worse
It’s going to be a long hot summer for many U.S. financial institutions when it comes to online attacks. The RSA’s Anti-Fraud Command Center issued its monthly online fraud intelligence report for May, and the statistics point to attacks on U.S. nationwide banks account for 33 percent of all attacks on...
With consumers demanding 24/7 access to financial accounts and information, balancing customer desires for convenience with the need for solid protection is a difficult task. However, VeriSign Layered Security offers an effective option to serve both fronts. Learn how you can:
• Reduce complexity by integrating...
Financial institutions receive email from a wide variety of sources, and like other companies they’re facing the unwanted solicitation emails that range from replica watches to penny stock offerings. The employees at financial institutions are also faced with these emails that make it past filters and into...
Like comic book super villains, spam kingpins always seem to find new ways to thwart the technology heroes that fight against junk mail. Just as it seems that they’ve finally been vanquished, they manage to elude the traps laid by anti-spam technology vendors in order to flood the inboxes of innocent users.
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