Links in “Cybersecurity/Data Breaches”
- The Big Domino Falls: Target’s Chief Resigns
Target's chairman and chief executive is the latest victim of the retailer's massive data breach last year. [5/5]
- Cold Wallet: The Effort to Stay Ahead of Bitcoin Thieves Evolves
Mining Bitcoins is becoming less lucrative, so attacking user's wallets has become the preferred approach of thieves. Experts advise transferring Bitcoins to a "cold wallet," a storage device that is completely offline. [5/5]
- Target Takes Steps to Rebuild Consumer Confidence
Hires CIO who has advised Homeland Security, Department of Justice and Secretary of Defense. Also announces plan to accelerate implementation of its conversion to cards that store information on embedded chips. [4/30]
- Silence about Cyberattacks May Be the Real Risk
An overwhelming majority of respondents to a recent survey of IT security professionals states that exchanging threat intelligence could have prevented cyberattacks. The traditional means of sharing information is just not sufficient today. [4/29]
- Heartbleed Lessons: Look for Odd Behavior on Internal Networks, Too
It is no longer enough to look for odd behavior with log-ins and actions in customer-facing offerings. Banks need to do the same with their own internal networks to detect whether criminals are seeking access. [4/29]
- Risk Watch 10: DDoS Webinar
Big banks arenât the only financial organizations targeted by DDoS and now the FFIEC has issued guidance to ensure youâre prepared. In this free DDoS webinar, learn about how DDoS attacks impact your credit union, hear stories of attacks and new research that supports DDoS as a smokescreen for breaches including financial and data theft.
- Ostrich Syndrome? 9% of Retailers Report No Cybersecurity Exposure
While 60% of retailers describe their cybersecurity exposure as significant, 9% are not reporting any exposure at all. [4/25]
- Black Box/White Box: A Primer on Network Penetration Testing
Black box and white box are two types of a pentest, short for network penetration test, where a third party seeks to break into your system in order to check for vulnerabilities. [4/23]
- Cybersecurity: What U.S. Lenders Can Learn from their Middle East Counterparts
The Middle East has been a hotbed of cyber attacks for some time. Recently several Middle East banks were hit by a malicious botnet disguised as a banking app. Here are some things U.S. banks can learn from these attacks. [4/22]
- Heartbleed Is Not Just a Website Threat
âHeartbleedâ may be affecting other parts of your infrastructure, such as your servers, mobile apps, and mobile devices. Both Cisco and Juniper have acknowledged that some of their network equipment uses the affected software. Mobile apps that donât use the affected software may also be vulnerable if they cycle through servers that do. [4/21]
