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InternetNews August 25, 2009 |
Measuring and Mitigating the Insider Threat A study finds that no enterprise is immune from the perils of negligence or malicious activity.  |
InternetNews April 12, 2005 Tim Gray |
310,000 Exposed by LexisNexis Data Breach Company estimates data breach affected 10 times the U.S. residents as originally reported.  |
InternetNews August 18, 2009 |
U.S. Fingers TJX Hacker in Heartland Breach Attacks on Heartland, 7-Eleven and Hannaford Bros. netted the criminals 130 million credit card numbers, according to the DoJ.  |
PC World November 2005 Alan Stafford |
Privacy in Peril With identity thieves targeting big consumer databases, your data isn't just up for sale -- it could be up for grabs.  |
InternetNews March 15, 2005 Roy Mark |
Data Brokers Back Federal Disclosure Law Lawmakers prod ChoicePoint, LexisNexis into supporting mandatory disclosure of security breaches.  |
InternetNews February 6, 2007 Roy Mark |
Concealment a Crime in Latest Data Breach Bill Additional legislation calls for criminal penalties for concealing breaches and consumer notification of 'significant' breaches.  |
InternetNews November 11, 2009 |
DoJ Busts Up Eastern European Hacking Ring Feds indict seven hackers and conspirators responsible for ripping off more than $9 million from an Atlanta-based credit card processing company.  |
InternetNews February 28, 2007 Ed Sutherland |
Former McAfee Exec. Facing Options Charges McAfee's former general counsel is facing a seven-count federal fraud indictment over stock option grants in 2000 and 2002.  |
InternetNews March 9, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
LexisNexis: Lookup For Crime Crooks accessed a LexisNexis subsidiary using misappropriated IDs and passwords to obtain approximately 32,000 names addresses, Social Security numbers and drivers' license numbers, which could be used for identity theft.  |
InternetNews December 5, 2008 Richard Adhikari |
More Illegal Peeks at Obama's Records For the second time in recent months, President-elect Barack Obama's records were illegally accessed by employees of the organization responsible for maintaining them.  |
InternetNews January 12, 2007 Roy Mark |
Data Breach Law Back in Senate Businesses and government agencies would have to notify consumers under certain circumstances of data breaches under legislation introduced by U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein.  |
InternetNews December 20, 2005 Jim Wagner |
Guidance Software Investigating Stolen Data Computer forensic specialist Guidance Software found itself on the receiving end of a malicious hacking attack that managed to swipe sensitive information on reportedly thousands of customers.  |
InternetNews March 11, 2005 Jim Wagner |
New Service to Put ID Protection in Your Hands Amid a flurry of data theft issues, Intersections readies an in-depth service to police who's trying to use all your data. This can help you spot identity theft.  |
Bank Systems & Technology August 27, 2009 Maria Bruno-Britz |
Evolving Fraud Schemes Keep Pressure on Evolving Payments Instruments While some of the latest schemes borrow from scams past, today's fraud schemes are as sophisticated as banks' most advanced payments systems. And stopping them is still a challenge.  |
InternetNews May 12, 2006 Roy Mark |
Data Breach Bills Crowding Congress Seeking to make it a crime to conceal data breaches involving personal information, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee Thursday jumped into the data breach debate playing out on Capitol Hill.  |
InternetNews February 22, 2007 Roy Mark |
Retailers to Hold Data-Breach Bag? Proposed legislation in Massachusetts would make retailers financially responsible for breaches of their databases that lead to consumer identity theft.  |
BusinessWeek July 3, 2006 Dean Foust |
ID Theft: More Hype Than Harm Law enforcement officials say the criminals tend not to follow through after stealing personal data.  |
InternetNews May 23, 2006 Roy Mark |
VA Data Breach Stirs Washington In the second-largest data breach on record -- and the biggest Social Security numbers breach ever - the Department of Veterans Affairs disclosed Monday approximately 26.5 million veterans are at risk of identity theft.  |
InternetNews June 1, 2009 Alex Goldman |
VPN Breach Underscores IT Security Challenges How did an employee who had been laid off some time ago gain access to vital energy company systems through the corporate VPN?  |
Bank Systems & Technology June 26, 2006 Deena M. Amato-McCoy |
Closing the Door on Criminals Banks need a consistent approach to fraud assessment and prevention, otherwise they will never truly get ahead of the problem.  |
Bank Systems & Technology December 1, 2005 Eileen Colkin Cuneo |
Dealing With Data Theft After the Fact When a security breech occurs, a company handling it right can flip the negative into a positive and earn customers' respect and appreciation. If they handle it wrong, and the business will fight the stigma of being an untrustworthy organization indefinitely.  |
Wall Street & Technology June 29, 2005 Paul Allen |
Is It Safe? Given the virtual nature of much of our modern world, in which financial transactions are predominantly about electronic flows of data rather than hard cash, information has become a key source of risk. As a result, the new security focus is on information management.  |
InternetNews April 13, 2005 Roy Mark |
Data Brokers Step Into Senate Panel's Fire Compliance with the California law on disclosing data breaches has resulted in a series of embarrassing public-data hijacking admissions. The Senate is now grilling data brokers and considering federal legislation.  |
Information Today September 23, 2014 |
LexisNexis Introduces Identity Challenges Resource LexisNexis Risk Solutions created a thought leadership platform to educate government agencies and officials about solutions to their identity challenges.  |
InternetNews March 17, 2006 Roy Mark |
Groups Slam Data Breach Notification Bill A U.S. House panel effort to write a national data breach disclosure law is running into fierce opposition by consumer groups calling the legislation the "worst data security bill ever."  |
InternetNews September 22, 2005 Roy Mark |
Roberts Vote Could Stall Data Privacy Law Judiciary Committee may vote today on mandating national breach disclosure law.  |
InternetNews October 9, 2006 Roy Mark |
Feds Indict Two For Internet Scam Bogus online auctions for Hurricane Katrina victims leads to charges of wire and identity fraud.  |
U.S. Banker September 2004 Karen Krebsbach |
Security: The Inside Job Your employees wouldn't rip you off, right? Think again. Their theft will cost banks $2.4 billion this year.  |
InternetNews January 12, 2006 Roy Mark |
Data Breaches: New Year, Old Story Data breaches are off to a flying start this year. Congress does nothing about it, not even requiring companies to inform consumers of the breaches.  |
Bank Technology News April 2004 Michael Grebb |
Forgotten Fraud: Counterfeit Checks Banks lost $698 million from scams in 2001  |
InternetNews April 12, 2005 Roy Mark |
Feinstein Tightens ID Theft Proposal California Democrat calls for national notification law just before Senate hearing.  |
Insurance & Technology January 22, 2010 |
2 Charged with $1.8M Healthcare Fraud A grand jury in San Antonio has returned an indictment charging a couple in connection with an alleged $1.8 million healthcare fraud scheme, officials said.  |
U.S. Banker May 2004 |
Counterfeit Checks are The Forgotten Fraud With all the attention on ID theft, old-fashioned check fraud is getting easier than ever. It may actually account for the majority of cases categorized as identity-related crime.  |
CRM September 7, 2012 Dale Dabbs |
Protect Your Most Valuable Business Assets--Your Customers Optimal CRM incorporates data protection best practices to curtail identity theft.  |
Bank Technology News September 2008 Anthony Malakian |
Budgets Inch Up The top priorities for bank security spending are fraud detection for money transfers and an AML system, followed by fraud detection for online banking.  |
CFO March 1, 2011 Laton McCartney |
Where There's Smoke, There's Fraud Sarbanes-Oxley has done little to curb corporate malfeasance. Therefore, CFOs should implement a range of fraud-prevention measures.  |
InternetNews July 10, 2007 Roy Mark |
Many Breaches, Few ID Thefts Data breaches are frequent, but evidence of actual identity theft resulting from the breaches is limited, according to a new report by the General Accountability Office.  |
InternetNews July 28, 2010 |
Most Data Breaches Perpetrated by Cyber Gangs Organized crime syndicates, many of them based or operated from outside the U.S., are overwhelmingly to blame for coordinated cyber attacks, according to a study by Verizon and the U.S. Secret Service.  |
Bank Systems & Technology May 5, 2007 Maria Bruno-Britz |
Fraud Techniques Evolve in Parallel with Bank Products and Defenses As fraudsters' techniques evolve alongside the products and services offered by financial institutions, new steps must be introduced to stop them.  |
InternetNews March 25, 2005 Jim Wagner |
Feds Push Banks on Security Alerts After several high-profile private data leaks, the Federal Reserve and regulators advise banks to immediately notify customers of security breaches.  |
Bank Technology News January 2006 Glen Fest |
Data Breach Notification: States Differ On When To Sound The Alarm Legislative action on how and when banks should sound the alarm when there's been a data breach has lagged on the federal level, leading to a broad mix of state measures.  |
InternetNews September 25, 2007 Stuart J. Johnston |
Report: TJX Security Was 'Inadequate' TJX is faulted for collecting too much information, keeping it too long, and not upgrading security systems quickly enough.  |
The Motley Fool January 10, 2006 Dayana Yochim |
It's Hunting Season for Identity Thieves A recent security breach at a major tax preparation provider was a welcome surprise for alert fraudsters and a reminder to consumers that your secrets are safe from no one -- particularly this time of year.  |
The Motley Fool March 16, 2005 Rich Smith |
Banker Dons a Black Hat In written testimony to the congressional committee investigating the security of customer data, Bank of America argued that the law should not require companies to inform their customers of security breaches that put their data at risk.  |
Bank Technology News July 2005 |
Securing Customer Data Gets Tougher Each Day When bankers refer to fraud publicly, it often comes off as if the theft does not involve human beings. But behind the recent spate of data breaches are people-on both sides of the problem. Want to make a CEO wince? Talk about fraud in real terms.  |
InternetNews May 11, 2005 Roy Mark |
Senate Debating Data Privacy Changes Senate Commerce Committee opens series of hearing on data broker practices.  |
Wall Street & Technology August 22, 2007 Melanie Rodier |
Employee Fraud Not Being Properly Addressed By Financial Industry, Government, Survey Says Financial institutions widely believe employee fraud to be driven by increased access to technology, poor hiring and screening practices, and organized crime, according to a new survey.  |
InternetNews August 4, 2006 Roy Mark |
Data Breaches And Congress A roundup of where federal data breach security laws stand.  |
U.S. Banker December 2009 Glen Fest |
It's a Jungle in There Financially distressed workers are becoming a prime fraud worry for banks. But is it enough to prompt more investment in prevention?  |
Wall Street & Technology October 23, 2007 Melanie Rodier |
How Are U.S. Businesses and Lawmakers Responding to Data Breaches? Nearly 77 million individuals have been affected by data breaches so far this year. But even after suffering a data breach, many businesses failed to implement encryption solutions or seek legal counsel.  |