Interview with Longtime Criminal Investigator Dana Turner
Embezzlement has become the nation's favorite financial crime -- and losses attributed to embezzlement are greater than those from all other financial crimes combined. Understanding the crime of embezzlement is critical to every investigator. In this...
Think of chief information security officers as silent types, diligent professionals who get the job done with little fanfare.
Nearly two dozen federal agency CISOs got a bit more expressive, of sorts, as they voiced their views about their jobs and federal government IT security as participants in a survey...
"Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people," information security engineer and analyst Muhammad El-Harmeel writes, citing security guru Bruce Schneier, in a paper entitled Human Being Firewall recently posted on the SANS Institute website.
We all know the risk of the insider threat is high, but what are the specific vulnerabilities for which organizations should be particularly vigilant?
In an exclusive interview, Randy Trzeciak of Carnegie Mellon's CERT program discusses recent insider threat research, including:
Patterns and trends of insider...
Is 2009 the Year of the Insider Threat?
Last August's arrest of a Countrywide employee in California illustrates the potential impact of a single insider with access to sensitive information. The FBI charged the former employee with taking 2 million names and personal information from the mortgage bank and selling...
We all know the risk of the insider threat is high, but what are the specific vulnerabilities for which organizations should be particularly vigilant?
In an exclusive interview, Randy Trzeciak of Carnegie Mellon's CERT program discusses recent insider threat research, including:
Patterns and trends of insider...
The number of identity fraud victims has increased 22 percent in the U.S., costing 9.9 million victims a total of $48 billion in 2008.
This is the news from the fifth annual Identity Fraud Survey Report from Javelin Strategy & Research. In an exclusive interview, James Van Dyke, Javelin founder and President,...
The leather bound marketing brochures, luxurious jets and a cricket championship with a $20 million top prize were all part of what the Securities and Exchange Commission says was a 'massive fraud' on the part of a Houston investment firm.
Have you asked yourself, "What threats (new and old) is our institution going to have deal with this year?"
What data security threats will be most prevalent for banking institutions?
The volume of attacks from international sources has and will continue to increase.
Data security breaches tied to theft...
This is an example of the heightened insider threat that financial institutions now fear.
A federal grand jury in Maryland has indicted a disgruntled software programmer for planting a virus on mortgage giant Fannie Mae's servers in late 2008. Had the malware not been discovered shortly after the programmer's...
Information security experts are bracing for the law of unintended consequences to swing into action in 2009 as layoffs, downsizing and low morale bring the worst out of trusted insiders looking to profit off of proprietary intellectual property, customer contact lists, trade secrets and any other sensitive...
Reported data breaches increased by nearly half in 2008, and 12 percent of the total hacks were at financial institutions - up from 7 percent in 2007.
This is the news from the Identity Theft Resource Center's (ITRC) 2008 breach report, which shows that 2008's 656 reported breaches were up 47 percent over 2007's...
In the wake of the arrests of 11 hackers tied to the TJX data breach, security experts everywhere are warning of bigger, bolder threats to come.
So, what should banking institutions have learned from TJX-style breaches, and what can they do now to protect their customers and critical financial/informational...
A former Countrywide Financial Corp. employee was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation earlier this month in Los Angeles for stealing and selling sensitive personal information, including social security numbers on an estimated 2 million mortgage loan applicants from around the country for the last two...
Interview with Cyber Crime Expert Eric Fiterman
In the wake of the arrests of 11 hackers tied to the TJX data breach, security experts everywhere are warning of bigger, bolder threats to come.
So, what should banking institutions have learned from TJX-style breaches, and what can they do now to protect their...
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