To combat breaches involving insiders, organizations need to limit employees' access to data and more closely monitor access activity, security expert David Gibson of Varonis says in this video interview.
With new technologies appearing almost daily, attackers have a constant stream of potential new tools, tactics and practices to evaluate as offensive weapons. This constantly expanding attack surface forces defenders to assess new technologies, all while protecting themselves amid an ever-escalating arms race. The...
Former NSA contractor Harold T. Martin III., who is accused of pilfering mass quantities of highly classified information, will remain in jail until his trial. Martin engaged in "a course of felonious conduct that is breathtaking in its longevity and scale," prosecutors say.
A new audit that uncovered numerous problems with the U.S. Secret Service's IT management is "alarming," says House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz, a victim of a Secret Service insider breach.
An NSA contractor who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton has been accused of stealing top-secret documents that the U.S. says could endanger national security. The documents are critical to a "wide variety of national security issues," the Department of Justice says.
Bank watchdog Sen. Elizabeth Warren is going after Wells Fargo for violating the privacy of bank customers. This news leads the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report.
Wells Fargo will pay $185 million in fines over employees illegally subscribing customers to banking products they didn't request - creating 2 million ghost accounts in the process - in what appears to be one of the largest cases of identity theft ever recorded.
Bank of the West's new approach to the insider threat is focused less on detection, more on preventing fraud in the first place. David Pollino tells why a "noisy" insider fraud program is more effective than covertly monitoring employee activity.
The term Insider Threat brings to mind the malicious employee, motivated by either money or politics to steal data that can be sold on a black market or used to damage the organization's reputation.
According to a Ponemon report, unintentional employee negligence severely diminishes the productivity of the...
When desktops ruled the enterprise, employers may not have claimed to have absolute control over their workers' usage of technology and data, but they surely could contain it. Whether overtly or tacitly, leadership has now empowered its employees. Thanks to mobility, the cloud and other advancements, workers decide...
As a technology professional, you know that data, network and system failures aren't your biggest problems. It's the humans who interact with these systems that cause the issues.
High-risk insider threats - malicious, careless or negligent employees - are one of the main causes of data breaches. Most of the time,...
What are the biggest threats to your organization's data? Recent media attention to high-profile cyberattacks would lead an organization to think external threats are its only concern. Unfortunately, this misconception allows another significant threat to your organization's critical assets to stay completely under...
Close on the heels of the QNB leak, the same attackers have published data that appears to be from UAE-based InvestBank. The dump appears to contain payment card data, as well as a large number of sensitive, internal files relating to the bank's employees and systems.
A preview of director Oliver Stone's upcoming film "Snowden" portrays former NSA contractor Edward Snowden as a gung-ho action hero - a cunning insider and a clever operative.
Security experts worldwide are sorting through the implications of the so-called "Panama Papers" leak, involving 11.5 million records. The documents highlight an elaborate web of offshore holdings that everyone from heads of state to celebrities and fraudsters have allegedly used to hide billions of dollars.
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