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New: Financial Services Security Vertical Focus

SC Magazine's Security Vertical Focus: Financial Services is the place to go for information on IT security relating to the financial sector, including breaking news, our ThreatStats compilation of critical trends, reviews of security products, and timely feature articles and opinions contributed by industry leaders. This week: As long as there has been credit granting there have been customers committing first party fraud.

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Digital Download - Deflecting data theft, sponsored by netForensics

Date: Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Time: 2:00 p.m. EST/11:00 a.m. PST

A huge issue for all organizations today is the threat of data theft or exposure. In the January issue, the SC Magazine Data Breach Survey revealed just some of the issues surrounding the growing problem of data exposure. We talk to experts about this problem and find out what areas of their information security programs the C-level suite can improve upon to help deflect data thieves.

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Howard A. Schmidt, president and CEO, R & H Security Consulting LLC
Rich Baich, principal, Deloitte & Touche LLP

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Survey 2008: Guarding against a data breach

Illena Armstrong January 31, 2008

Information security pros are increasingly confronted by cybercriminals trawling their corporate networks for customers' private data. More than 80 percent of the respondants to the SC Magazine/MXI Security survey say guarding against data breaches is the focus of current security initiatives, reports SC Magazine Editor-In-Chief Illena Armstrong.
 

Scraping: Data theft is scaling up

Ofer Shezaf, vice president of security research, Breach Security February 04, 2008

Data-theft attacks against web applications have expanded in scope—from attempts to extract credit card information from e-commerce sites to scraping entire libraries of valuable information from subscription-based sites.
 

You have to think like a thief to protect your data

Slavik Markovich, CTO, Sentrigo Inc. February 04, 2008

Data theft is the primary motive for most intentional data breaches. But the data that criminals seek may not be the information you associate with your organization's primary business.
 

Mortgage spam spikes due to Federal Reserve rate cut

Frank Washkuch Jr. January 30, 2008

Spammers have taken advantage of the U.S. mortgage crisis to intensify the amount of financial junk mail sent to end-users.
 

Yahoo names VeriSign's Balogh CTO

Frank Washkuch Jr. January 30, 2008

In a move overshadowed by sizable layoffs announced this week, Yahoo has named VeriSign's Aristotle Balogh its new chief technology officer (CTO).
 

Horizon 300,000 members unencrypted data on stolen laptop

Jack Rogers January 30, 2008

Horizon Blue Cross/Blue Shield of New Jersey has notified more than 300,000 of its members that their personal information -- including Social Security numbers -- was contained in a laptop stolen in Newark earlier this month.
 

Western Union spam downloads keylogger

Jim Carr January 29, 2008

Spam emails, purporting to deliver a money-transfer notification from Western Union but containing an attachment with an executable trojan, have been spotted in the wild by researchers at Sunbelt Software.
 

T. Rowe Price contractor loses hard drives with data

Dan Kaplan January 29, 2008

Global investment management firm T. Rowe Price has admitted to thieves stealing two computers containing the sensitive information of thousands of 401(k) participants from the St. Louis office of a third-party contractor.
 

Rogue trader conceals fraud costing French bank $7 billion

Jack Rogers January 25, 2008

A rogue trader at Societe Generale used his knowledge of the French bank's computer security system to conceal fraudulent transactions that resulted in losses of more than $7 billion, the bank has confirmed.
 

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