MasterCard is testing a biometric wristband that authenticates a user's identity for payment card transactions by monitoring their heartbeat. Payment experts weigh in on whether the technology has the potential for widespread use in preventing card fraud.
There is a common perception among organizations that cloud security, especially when using a public cloud model - is a shared responsibility model.
According to one of the largest cloud services provider, Amazon Web Services "...the customer should assume responsibility and management of, but not limited to,...
From PCs to tablets to smartphones, customers enter institutions from all electronic angles. And these new banking habits put new strains on traditional IT infrastructure. How can banks ensure security?
To most effectively manage vulnerabilities, you need to think like the attacker: how would you go about doing damage, exfiltrating valuable information and making money? What are the key assets in your network that you would target? How would you get to these assets?
Drawing on decades of real-world experience,...
Based on the results of this year's survey, there are several key takeaways for the security community. The use of analytics and threat intelligence to ferret out complex and stealthy threats from advanced attackers and insiders is improving security for some; automation is improving; and intelligence providers are...
Malicious activity triggers measurable events at almost every stage of the attack. There are multiple sensory technologies available, but collecting this data from disparate sources can often just result in the creation of a very large pool of unrelated "facts," an impenetrable noise where no signal can be found. But...
The developers of the Backoff point-of-sale malware that's infected more than 1,000 U.S. businesses have continued to refine their attack code, including encrypting communications and making the malware tougher to spot or eradicate, researchers say.
Apple iOS and Mac OS X devices are susceptible to WireLurker, a previously unseen malware family that spreads via a third-party Chinese app store, and which can infect even non-jailbroken iOS devices, Palo Alto Networks warns.
There are two main critical components of intelligence gathering. The most widely accepted is external threat intelligence, gathered from monitoring and sharing malicious activity. But equally - if not more - important is the need to understand what your attackers know about you: "open source" information that is...
As various batches of stolen credit card "dumps" are offered for sale with discount structures and money-back guarantees, it is clear just how sophisticated the Fraud Ecosystem has become. The fraudsters and their support teams have created well-organized forums offering a broad variety of products that constitute a...
The new director of Britain's eavesdropping agency, GCHQ, has blasted U.S. technology firms, arguing that - intentionally or not - they're "the command-and-control networks of choice for terrorists and criminals."
The IT world is on the precipice of enormous change. While full adoption of this change will not happen overnight, it has already begun to happen in the datacenter and for a user near you. Because of the substantial investments made by organizations in building out their datacenters, and thanks to the significant risk...
Ripped from today's headlines in which company after company is reporting breaches of their information security, this session will provide a fresh perspective on some tried and true information security practices. While companies rush to spend dollars on improved technologies and contracting with third parties to...
The security benefits of log and machine data analysis are widely accepted by CISOs and CIOs, and yet too many organizations have difficulty executing on this opportunity due to bottlenecks imposed by archaic systems and processes that manage this data. Without the right tools to give easy visibility into the data,...
While the U.S. is migrating to more secure payment methods at the point-of-sale, internet banking security continues to be a concern for industry players and consumers alike. The battle against online fraud, which continues to see steady increases, is an ongoing fight. While fraudsters continue to become more creative...
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