Visa is mounting a full-scale blitz to encourage merchants to use payment software that doesn't compromise consumer passwords. The card company has asked merchants to ensure that the software they use to process card transactions doesn't store the full contents of "track data", which contains passwords and other...
EMC Corp.'s recent acquisition of RSA Inc. underscores the convergence of information security and storage. EMC, which sells large storage systems for use in corporate data centers, bought RSA - a manufacturer of encryption software and devices - to provide it with identity and access management technologies and...
Deloitte Security Survey
The world's largest financial institutions have faced a surge in the number of security attacks over the past year, particularly from external sources, according to the 2006 Global Security Survey released by the Financial Services Industry practices of the member firms of Deloitte Touche...
Who knows? Maybe two and three–factor authentication will become a thing of the past and five–factor authentication will take its place. The same issue with encryption has been encountered over the years. With this example in mind, does it make sense for law to be involved in the technological details?...
The exponential growth of online banking has introduced a tremendous challenge: how to reliably and efficiently identify customers online. Today’s most common method is the standard username and password or personal identification number (PIN), issued to any customer who registers. But with the explosion of...
The exponential growth of online banking has introduced a tremendous challenge: how to reliably and efficiently identify customers online. Today’s most common method is the standard username and password or personal identification number (PIN), issued to any customer who registers. But with the explosion of...
Some security practitioners react to new technologies with panic and the issuance of stern edicts against using USB drives/PDAs/EVDO cards/wireless LANs, etc. Stop and take a deep breath. In most cases, users have a legitimate need to fill. It is your job to find a way for them to fill that need safely, not to keep...
According to a Harris Interactive survey of U.S. office workers, 68% of employees have sent or received e-mails that could pose a risk to their company.
The survey shows that even if you think you’re e-mailing out a harmless joke, gossip, or innocent information about your company, you could be putting...
"Botnet" Investigation Led by U.S. Secret Service’s Electronic Crimes Task Force and the Computer
Hacking and Intellectual Property Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office
SAN JOSE – United States Attorney Kevin V. Ryan announced that Anthony Scott Clark, 21, of Beaverton, Oregon, pleaded guilty...
"Botnet" Investigation Led by U.S. Secret Service’s Electronic Crimes Task Force and the Computer
Hacking and Intellectual Property Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office
SAN JOSE – United States Attorney Kevin V. Ryan announced that Anthony Scott Clark, 21, of Beaverton, Oregon, pleaded guilty...
Marcia Wilson- BankInfoSecurity.com Editor
In the year 2005, there were over 53 million individuals affected by security breaches wherein their personal information was compromised. The ChoicePoint incident was considered one of the first highly publicized events where notification to the individuals affected was...
In our ten years’ experience in detecting, locating, and prosecuting network intruders (hackers) we have seen that, as with many offline crimes, robust law enforcement alone cannot solve the network intruder problem. To be effective, any overall strategy must include the owners and operators of the...
In our ten years’ experience in detecting, locating, and prosecuting network intruders (hackers) we have seen that, as with many offline crimes, robust law enforcement alone cannot solve the network intruder problem. To be effective, any overall strategy must include the owners and operators of the...
By Eric B. Parizo, News Editor10 Nov 2005 | SearchSecurity.com  No matter where you are or how big you are, if your organization hasn't been affected by spyware yet, it's only a matter of time.That's the message from Boulder, Colo.-based Webroot Software Inc. According to the antispyware vendor's quarterly...
Since January 1, at least 104 data incidents have been documented in the U.S., potentially affecting more than 56.2 million individuals. And that is probably just the tip of the iceberg.How many breaches don’t make the front page because the victimized company wants to avoid embarrassing publicity? We will...
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