Stories about: Financial Institutions

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    Deleted data drives new data breaches 15/04/2009 22:25:00

    According to a new report on data breaches from Verizon Business, cyber criminals are no longer attacking where the credit card files are, but where they once were.
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    Visa: New payment-processor data breach not so new after all 02/03/2009 08:22:00

    Days after Visa seemingly confirmed that a data breach had taken place at a third payment processor, following on the recent breach disclosures by Heartland Payment Systems and RBS WorldPay, the credit card company is now saying that there was no new security incident after all.
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    CISOs at financial firms worry about insider threats: survey 05/02/2009 08:52:00

    A survey of 250 chief information security officers involved in the financial-services world shows that while they have increasing responsibility for IT strategy and planning, they harbor growing concerns about internal security and management support amid the sharp economic downturn.
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    What the Web knows about you 28/01/2009 08:12:00

    She had me at hello ... or just about. Our conversation had barely started when privacy activist Betty Ostergren interrupted me to say that she had found my full name, address, Social Security number and a digital image of my signature on the Web.
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    Three years undercover with the identity thieves 21/01/2009 08:22:00

    Salesmen and parents know the technique well. It's called the takeaway, and as far as Keith Mularski is concerned, it's the reason he kept his job as administrator of online fraud site DarkMarket.
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    As phishing evolves, criminals switch to malware 19/12/2008 07:25:00

    The scammers began to see serious problems with their phishing scams sometime around April.
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    Grim forecast for holiday e-commerce sales 27/11/2008 07:00:00

    Judging by the first 23 days of November, retailers can expect flat spending growth for the 2008 holiday e-commerce season, predicts Web measurement firm comScore.
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    Seagate: Enterprise SSD to be released next year 05/11/2008 08:20:00

    Storage manufacturer Seagate will release its first SSD (solid-state drive) for enterprises by the middle of next year, CEO Bill Watkins said on Tuesday.
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    'Ruthless' Trojan steals 500K bank, credit card log-ons 03/11/2008 09:00:00

    A sophisticated cybercrime group that's maintained an especially devious Trojan horse for nearly three years has stolen the log-ons to more than 300,000 online bank accounts and almost as many credit cards during that time, a security company said today.
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    Businesses weigh benefits of solid state storage 24/09/2008 08:49:00

    As solid state storage drive technologies mature and claw their way into enterprise IT systems, businesses will face cost-vs.-benefit decisions over whether the time is right to adopt the new technology.
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    Scammers replace credit card readers in Irish stores 19/08/2008 02:11:00

    Fraudsters in northeast Ireland posing as authorized bank service personnel replaced credit card readers in retailers' stores with their own, capturing data that can be used to empty bank accounts and make purchases.
 
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