What are the biggest threats to your organization's data? Recent media attention to high-profile cyberattacks would lead an organization to think external threats are its only concern. Unfortunately, this misperception allows one of the biggest threats to your organization's data to stay completely under the radar -...
Prosecutors recommended that twin brothers Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter serve a six-year and a two-year sentence, respectively, after pleading guilty to hacking-related charges. But one of the men received a much lighter sentence.
Significant threats and massive breaches make front-page news on a regular basis, leaving businesses and consumers wondering whether their data can ever be considered safe again.
That kind of news can be especially damaging to the financial services industry, where success really depends on reputation and trust....
A penny saved is a penny earned, as Benjamin Franklin made familiar in Poor Richard's Almanac in 1737 - and every penny of fraud loss recovered (or better yet, avoided) goes straight to the organization's bottom line.
Present-day examples span the gamut of industries. The losses are in the billions and growing -...
Most cyber security incidents are not particularly technical and in fact, the majority of data breaches are the result of simple human error. A major recent study of cyber-attack and incident data reported that 95 percent of all security incidents predominantly exploit the weakest link, the human. Internal and...
Former U.S. Secret Service agent Shaun W. Bridges has pleaded guilty to stealing $820,000 worth of bitcoins during the U.S. government's investigation into the underground narcotics marketplace known as "Silk Road."
The FBI has arrested a former manager at Machine Zone, which makes the multiplayer "Game of War: Fire Age," over allegations that he attempted to bargain sensitive corporate information for a better severance package.
See the startling results of meticulous analysis of hundreds of real-life insider attacks from the team at Carnegie Mellon University, where the CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) function was created. The analysis results clearly indicate that, contrary to the majority of headlines, stealthy insiders pose a huge...
See the startling results of meticulous analysis of hundreds of real-life insider attacks from the team at Carnegie Mellon University, where the CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) function was created. The analysis results clearly indicate that, contrary to the majority of headlines, stealthy insiders pose a huge...
Human resources departments can play an important role in helping to prevent insider breaches, says Reid Stephan, IT security director at St. Luke's Health System. In an interview, he describes his organization's strategy.
Federal authorities have arrested a Chinese professor, accusing him of pilfering trade secrets from the computer systems of American high-tech companies where he and a co-conspirator once worked.
See the startling results of meticulous analysis of hundreds of real-life insider attacks from the team at Carnegie Mellon University, where the CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) function was created. The analysis results clearly indicate that, contrary to the majority of headlines, stealthy insiders pose a huge...
AT&T, in a settlement with the FCC, agrees to pay a $25 million fine because call center employees in Mexico, Colombia and the Philippines accessed private information from some 278,000 customer accounts without authorization.
A former customer service representative at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan is among 11 individuals recently arrested in connection with an alleged identity theft scheme that resulted in hundreds of thousands of dollars in credit fraud.
West Virginia United Health System is taking a multi-step approach to thwarting insider threats, including aggressive analysis of access audits, says assistant CIO Mark Combs, who helps lead the system's privacy and security efforts.
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