ISMG Launches GovInfoSecurity.com
Press Release From GovInfoSecurity.com
We have a new President, a new Administration, a new session of Congress … and a new national mission throughout government to secure personal data and protect our borders from cyber threats. Information security has never been more important to the federal government - or to all of us, as we conduct personal and professional business in this electronic world.
ISR News: 2009 - Year of the Insider Threat
Excerpt From BankInfoSecurity.com
The increased number of employers handing out pink slips doesn’t help quell the threat, with a record number of people on the unemployment lines and others at work worried about their own positions. “We’re going to see some insider events where insiders are tempted enough by money to enable these compromises to take place from outsiders, allowing access to payment data and account information,” says Mike Urban, Senior Director of Fraud Solutions at Fair Isaac, predicts,
ISR News: Anatomy of a Data Breach
Excerpts From BankInfoSecurity.com
“Once the intruder is on the network and able to move around, there is oftentimes a system of downloading hacker tools, and the tools do a couple of different things. Sometimes they go and look at passwords or try to find passwords, and sometimes they are simply devices to capture sensitive information and maybe store it in a certain file somewhere on the network. And then lastly there is another series of hacker tools that are downloaded and installed and the point they have, the purpose of being used to export the sensitive information over the internet through remote computers that the intruder controls. Sometimes the export occurs over an extended period of time.”
Top 10 Confidential Data Breaches of 2008
Source: Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
UPDATE: The estimated number of people affected by a data breach at Bank of New York Mellon Corp has been raised from 4.5 million to 12.5 million. As many as 4.5 million customer records are thought to be compromised. Raised from 4.5 million to 12.5 million.
Heartland Breach Bad As Tylenol Poisonings?
By Anthony M. Freed, Information-Security-Resources.com Financial Editor
Heartland Payment Systems stock (HPY) was hit hard in the wake of what is being described as the biggest single breach of consumer and financial data security ever. The company issued statements Friday (1/23) in an effort at damage control in which the CEO compares the potential industry-wide impact of the breach to none other than that of the Tylenol poisonings of some twenty-five years ago that nearly brought down the drug maker.
