Top 10 Breaches By Removable Device
By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest
Ten Most Important Security Incidents Involving Removable Devices: I thought it would be valuable to put the top ten most important incidents regarding removable devices, including hardware keystroke loggers, USB thumb drives, and MP3 players, together into a list. It helps highlight the risks inherent in removable devices to have all of these incidents in one place.
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: Data Theft Spurs Lawsuits
Excerpt from NKY.com
The lawsuits stem from the arrest of Rene Rebollo Jr., 36, of Pasadena, Calif., a former senior analyst for Countrywide, and Wahid Siddiqi, 25, of Thousand Oaks, Calif. Investigators said Rebollo used a flash drive to download data from about 20,000 customers a week for two years, from 2006 through August 2008, then sold the information to Siddiqi for a total of $50,000.
