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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Phil Dunkelberger, president and CEO, PGP Corporation February 26, 2008
Tools to encrypt sensitive data have been with us at least since the reign of Julius Caesar, who used a simple letter-shifting code to communicate with his generals. Encryption now is on the front lines of the war on data theft, tipping the battle in favor of the "good guys."
Chris Sullivan, vice president of customer solutions, Courion February 20, 2008
High-profile data breaches and compliance incidents - such as the recent rogue trading scandal at Societe Generale in France - have given a second meaning to ROI: "Risk of Insiders."
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.
Joel Christner, director, product management, Reconnex Corp. February 07, 2008
Learning applications that add a layer of multi-dimensional intelligence to DLP can identify what high-business-impact data is, who is using it, who should get it, and how it should go to them.
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.
ChoicePoint, whose watershed breach prompted a burst of state disclosure laws, has been acquired by LexisNexis information service parent, Reed Elsevier, for $4.1 billion, the two companies announced Thursday.
In the wake of a Princeton research team's surprising announcement of a simple method for stealing encrypted data from DRAM chips on PCs -- even after the unit's power has been shut off -- security experts told SCMagazineUS.com on Friday that the tools to thwart these thefts already are available.
Quebec police have arrested 17 people on charges stemming from alleged botnet-related activities that police said caused an estimated $44.3 million in damages worldwide.
The Missouri Attorney General's Office has filed a lawsuit against a Texas-based data broker that contends the company sold the Social Security numbers of some Missouri residents.
A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered the disabling of a website that discloses confidential information, a precedent-setting ruling that may raise a legal challenge to the growing online black market in purloined data while testing First Amendment rights.
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