With the recently discovered “plug and play†phishing kit, a relatively “non-technical†person with the right information could launch a phishing attack against any financial institution.
While consumers like the convenience of online banking, financial institutions need to be prepared to mitigate certain risks that may expose consumer information, says a leading authority on data security and privacy.
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.
Listen in to this Information Security Media Group podcast to hear from the CISO at Investors Bank & Trust talk about what makes successful training programs work. Jeff Bardin has a wealth of experience in developing training programs for a wide range of organizations.
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A new study details the psychological games and other tactics cyber criminals use in social engineering scams propagated through junk email. In a recently released study titled "Mind Games," Dr. James Blascovich, Professor of Psychology at the University of California,
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...
When you think about the number of PIN numbers, passwords, or passphrases you use every day: getting money from the ATM or using your debit card in a store, logging on to your computer or email, signing in to an online bank account or shopping cart...the list seems to just keep getting longer.
Are you a trusting person? When dealing with people you don't know, don't give them sensitive information unless you're sure who they are, and can prove that they are who they say they are. You'll want to ask yourself if they should have access to the information.
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.
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...
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