It’s going to be a long hot summer for many U.S. financial institutions when it comes to online attacks. The RSA’s Anti-Fraud Command Center issued its monthly online fraud intelligence report for May, and the statistics point to attacks on U.S. nationwide banks account for 33 percent of all attacks on...
As with any information security threat, your institution needs to plan for them, and social engineering from outside of your institution needs to be expected.
A financial institution's customers don't always know what's available to them. Your job is to help them. Did you know that everyone is entitled to receive one free credit file disclosure every 12 months from each of the nationwide consumer credit reporting companies - Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. This once a...
When it comes to cracking into computers and networks, one of the most indispensable tools is “social engineering†and it has little to do with modern computing technologies. In the popular lexicon that predates today's computing technologies, a social engineer might have been called a flimflam man,...
Learn in detail the current financial scams in circulation from phishing and lottery scams, ATM and credit card skimming, among many others.
Learn proactive defenses to prevent consumers and employers from falling victim.
Phishing -- It’s not a matter of if it will occur at your institution -- expect phishing to happen at your institution. Phishers are not dumb. They head toward where the money is – in the customer accounts at banks and credit unions.
So what does a typical attack look like? First, they swoop in, throw...
A phishing incident response plan for financial institutions isn’t written just for good business practice, it’s also a regulatory requirement too.
While it is a challenge to put an incident response plan that meets your regulator’s minimum requirements, you also want to have a well thought out...
Given the high cost of containing information security breaches, financial institutions have invested lots of time and money into developing incident response programs. But how do they know if their program is working properly?
The best offense is a good defense, is the adage. For financial institutions part of the defense to protect your customers from becoming victims of identity theft is educating them.
In this webinar, you will be privy to the following topics of discussion:
Describe malware, crimeware intrusions and how they relate to phishing;
Overview of current attacks and help to anticipate likely trends;
Describe different ways clients are attacked, understanding of proactive defenses;
Describe...
Overview:
• Latest news on the crimeware and phishing fronts
• Why average users can’t always sniff out those phishy emails
• Other cybercrime that financial institutions should be worried about
• Strong authentication - is it helping? What needs to be done further
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Financial institutions need to realize cyber criminals who target internet users with phishing attempts aren’t going away anytime soon, says information security expert Aaron Emigh. “They’re moving away from the purely deception based attacks (simple emails in your inbox with links that the...
Banks and credit unions need to do a better job to protect their customers from phishing, and strong authentication is only one part of the equation, says Aaron Emigh during a CUInfoSecurity.com podcast.
Aaron Emigh is a well known expert in information security. He’s the author of the U.S Secret service SF...
LINDA MCGLASSON: Are we in information security becoming too complacent? I mean, we have a lot of zero-day threats, hundred thousand node botnet sending us virus threats and all things like that, and those of us in information security, you know, look at the situation and think that this is normal operation...
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