Today's cybercriminals are talented, organized, efficient, and well-funded. In the last year, they have successfully attacked numerous retail and financial organizations, taking personal and financial data of hundreds of millions of consumers to fraudulently open new accounts, take over existing accounts and commit...
All organizations with an on-line presence need to quickly and efficiently detect hackers and fraudsters. However, to avoid frustrating the very people you want to feel welcome, it's critical that authentication processes be as simple as possible.
The newest generation of authentication technology utilizes shared...
Social media is all about connections. But so is almost everything else: families, teams, computers, products, and even plants and animals.
Now we're finding ways to explore those connections and see what they can tell us. And they can tell us a lot: about the phone calls we make, the people committing fraud, the...
Customers do not conform to one data type, one channel, or one-size- fits-all styles of marketing. Customers are empowered. Unhappy customers will go to a competitor and as social influencers, they will take potential customers with them. Organizations cannot afford to be complacent about how well they know their...
Three weeks after attackers launched a wiper malware attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment and began leaking stolen data, Sony has threatened legal action against media outlets that publish related information.
Gary Steele has seen attack methods rapidly evolve over the last five years. But what the CEO of Proofpoint hasn't seen is a comparable evolution in how the security industry responds to attacks.
A report claiming that Las Vegas Sands Corp. was hit with a "wiper" malware attack back in February, similar to one that recently affected Sony Pictures Entertainment, illustrates why more organizations need to mitigate the risks of such an attack.
Congress this week passed four cybersecurity bills, and a commonality among all of the measures is that they strengthen the Department of Homeland Security as a cybersecurity force within the federal government.
As industry participants are beginning to prepare for the US card payments ecosystem to migrate to EMV (Europay, MasterCard, Visa), the role of the EMV standard in fraud control is not so clear. While we know that one of the key benefits of EMV is its ability to prevent fraud, can it prevent all fraud types? The EMV...
New regulations are now forcing banks to change how they operate in order to avoid financial and reputational damage. At the same time, banks are under a lot of pressure to ensure these changes do not affect valuable customer relationships. They are faced with the challenge of striking the balance between regulatory...
Information security experts are questioning the accuracy of a news report that claims Sony Pictures Entertainment is attempting DDoS attacks to disrupt sites that are providing copies of stolen Sony data.
The so-called Red October APT gang may have emerged from hiding. Two research firms report finding advanced attacks that target firms across the financial, oil and engineering sectors, as well as government embassies, primarily in Eastern Europe.
A new version of the Destover malware includes a legitimate certificate from Sony. But a researcher claims it's a hoax. Meanwhile, new evidence emerges that the hackers who attacked Sony Pictures Entertainment had criminal - not nation-state - intentions.
It's been a year since the Target breach called attention to the need to ramp up cybersecurity at U.S. retailers. Here's a look at seven important lessons learned since then.
Security experts are sounding warnings that a flaw known as POODLE, revealed Oct. 14, can now be used to decrypt some Internet communications secured using TLS. Vendors have begun describing workarounds and issuing patches.
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