An unsecured database owned by an Ecuadorian consulting company left over 20 million records on the South American country's citizens exposed to the internet, according to a report from two independent security researchers. An official investigation is underway.
People cause data breaches every day. That simple statement hides layers of complexity, compliance issues, and stress for CISOs and their security teams. While we may be able to 'logically' explain malicious breaches by linking them to motivations such as financial gain, it's often more difficult to understand and...
U.S. Attorney General William Barr argued on Tuesday that enabling law enforcement to access encrypted content would only minimally increase data security risks. Barr's comments drew criticism from lawmakers and technologists, who contend backdoors would put the public at greater risk.
Digital transformation: It's the present and future of business, as enterprises adapt to work at the speed and convenience of new demands. But amidst this transformation, how can security leaders avoid being obstacles and actually become catalysts for change? Alex Teteris of Zscaler shares insight.
Customer accounts are an integral tool to help merchants foster customer loyalty. But when login credentials are compromised, they present a unique opportunity for fraudsters to commit CNP fraud and steal customer PII. In 2018 alone, Account Takeover attacks resulted in over $11 billion in losses.
The fallout from...
Security requirements need to be understood holistically in the context of your entire IT environment. Products and tools need to effectively address requirements without contributing to the chaos. Budgets and human resources are limited and need to be applied for maximum benefit.
But with hundreds of product...
Digital transformation (DX) of traditional branch networks offers several advantages for distributed
enterprises. Many organizations are switching from performance-inhibited wide-area networks
(WANs) to software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) architectures that offer faster connectivity, cost savings,
and other benefits. But...
Over the years, the Federal Reserve has worked alongside the industry to pursue real-time, safe, highly secure, efficient, broadly inclusive and ubiquitous payment services in the U.S. The U.S. payments and fraud landscape continues to shift as technology evolves and new risks emerge. During this session, attendees...
The CERT Insider Threat Center at Carnegie Mellon University is one of the world's leading authorities on detecting insider fraud, and it has just released Version 6 of its Best Practices to Mitigating Insider Threats.
As part of this research, the center addresses how to detect and prevent insider fraud, as well as...
In this session, Todd Carroll, former FBI Special Agent, will draw from his experience with the FBI and from his current role as CISO with Cybelangel to discuss:
Case studies showing exposure of sensitive data by trusted partners in airport operations
The increased risk of connected storage and exposure of data...
Cybercrime has targeted bank and payments solutions for a long time, but in the past few years has expanded its target industries to airlines, insurance, travel, retail and others. CISOs and fraud leaders that have been focused on insider threats are finding they need to consider the fraud darknet eco-system and...
The bad guys are winning the war on identity-theft, with losses mounting for organizations across sectors. Increasingly organized criminals have plenty of weapons in their arsenal, including vast quantities of breached data and carefully cultivated synthetic identities. What are the top trends shaping the rising tide...
It seems that every security vendor is hyping Artificial Intelligence (AI), creating unrealistic expectations and causing some security pros to simply tune it all out. The reality is that AI is a powerful, indeed essential, component of security against today's advanced threats. The attacks simply are too numerous,...
For at least half a decade, HSBC helped to wash hundreds of billions of dollars for drug mobs, including Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, as well as move money for terrorist organizations linked to Al Qaeda and Hezbollah and for Russian gangsters. Furthermore, HSBC helped countries like Iran, the Sudan and North Korea...
The CERT Insider Threat Center at Carnegie Mellon University is one of the world's leading authorities on detecting insider fraud, and it has just released Version 6 of its Best Practices to Mitigating Insider Threats.
As part of this research, the center addresses how to detect and prevent insider fraud, as well as...
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