Modern Identity and Acccess Management - Building Trust Without Sacrificing Security! 

Leading organizations understand that breaches have become the norm in today’s connected world. With information being everywhere and personalized experience driving the digital transformation, identity is critical. Identity is the foundation for trust. At CA Technologies, we understand how important it is to strike the right balance between enterprise data security and convenient user access. Our solutions address the requirements for IAM in the modern era.

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Preparing for 3-D Secure: The Next Generation

Information Security Media Group • July 23, 2018

Better, stronger fraud-detection intelligence - that's the promise of the new 3-D Secure 2.0 protocol for digital merchants, networks and financial institutions. But what should organizations do to prepare? James Jenkins of CA Technologies weighs in.

Incident & Breach Response

RBI Mandates Domestic Storage of Payments Data

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Hackers Deface Popular Videos Published by Vevo

Jeremy Kirk • April 11, 2018

A handful of popular music videos published on YouTube were defaced on Tuesday, with two hackers claiming credit. But Google, which owns YouTube, says that tampering didn't occur directly on its platform.

Cybercrime

Malaysia's Central Bank Blocks Attempted SWIFT Fraud

Mathew J. Schwartz • April 2, 2018

Malaysia's central bank, Bank Negara Malaysia, says it detected and successfully blocked an attack that attempted to steal funds via fraudulent SWIFT interbank money-moving messages. The attack against BNM led the central bank of the Philippines to issue an alert to banks in that country.

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Cybercrime

Winter Olympics Gold Medal for False Flag Goes to ... ?

Mathew J. Schwartz • March 12, 2018

Whoever unleashed malware built to disrupt last month's Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, designed it to look like it had been executed by a group of hackers tied to North Korea. But researchers at the security firm Kaspersky Lab say any such attribution would be false.

Cybercrime

How 'Slingshot' Router Malware Lurked for Six Years

Jeremy Kirk • March 12, 2018

Kaspersky Lab says it has uncovered an elegantly written piece of malware that leverages a Latvian-designed router to launch stealthy attacks. The security firm hints that the malicious code could only have come from a well-resourced attacker, but it stops short of naming one.

Cybercrime

Putin Offers Extradition Promise to US: 'Never'

Mathew J. Schwartz • March 7, 2018

Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued an unequivocal promise about the extradition potential for 13 Russian nationals accused of working for a Kremlin-backed troll factory: "Never." It's unclear how the U.S. might best battle Russia's influence operations.

Ukraine Sentences Two Citizens for DDoS Extortion Campaigns

Mathew J. Schwartz • March 6, 2018

In a groundbreaking prosecution, two individuals in Ukraine have been sentenced for running extortion campaigns that disrupted international victims' websites with massive DDoS attacks unless they paid bitcoin ransoms of up to $10,000.

Breach Notification

166 Applebee's Restaurants Hit With Payment Card Malware

Mathew J. Schwartz • March 6, 2018

Anyone who dined out at one of 166 Applebee's restaurants in 15 states may have had their payment card details compromised by point-of-sale malware infections that began in November 2017, RMH Franchise Holdings warns.

Breach Notification

Data Cache May Contain 2,800 Partly Undiscovered Breaches

Jeremy Kirk • February 27, 2018

An analysis of a massive 8.8 GB trove of files containing usernames and plaintext passwords suggests hundreds of services may have experienced unreported or undiscovered data breaches. Data breach expert Troy Hunt says the trove of 80 million records appears to contain fresh data.

Breach Notification

10 Cybersecurity Trends: What to Expect in 2018

Mathew J. Schwartz • January 2, 2018

Information security truisms: 2017 was the year of more cybersecurity - more attacks, more spending, more defenses, more breaches - and 2018 will see more of everything "cyber," plus GDPR enforcement, proxy wars online and more.

Incident & Breach Response

Threat Info Sharing Key Part of Election Security Bill

Eric Chabrow • November 1, 2017

Under bipartisan legislation introduced in the Senate, federal authorities would share classified cyber threat information with state election officials. The bill also would provide grants to states to support election security efforts.

Breach Notification

Hilton Reaches $700,000 Settlement Over Two Data Breaches

Mathew J. Schwartz • November 1, 2017

Global hotel chain Hilton has reached a $700,000 settlement agreement with New York and Vermont over two separate data breaches discovered in 2015 that exposed more than 360,000 payment card numbers.