Adoption of chip technology will not only help the U.S. payments infrastructure prepare for expected acceleration in mobile-based payments, Visa says, but will improve transaction security by providing dynamic authentication.
With the extension of ENISA's mandate into 2013 by the European Parliament & Council, the agency can continue to educate and collaborate with other nations on cybersecurity issues, an area of constant importance.
"You can do everything, but if you forget to change the keylocks on your dispensers, then you can be breached," says Gray Taylor, security expert at the National Association of Convenience Stores.
Bob Russo says the long-awaited PCI guidance on tokenization should provide merchants with a baseline for standardization and best practices, and serve as a roadmap for how tokenization can complement compliance with the PCI-DSS.
Do patients really want to know the identity of every doctor, nurse, technician, intern, specialist, admin and consulting physician who ever viewed their records?
International collaboration, steeper convictions for those who are caught and government support for the cyberfight are fueling positive progress in the fight against cybercrime.
According to FINRA, Citi's negligence in adequately supervising Tamara Moon, a former sales assistant at a Citi branch in Palo Alto, Calif., resulted in $749,978 being skimmed from the accounts of 22 Citi customers.
As fraud continues to evolve and affect financial institutions, careers are plentiful for fraud-fighting professionals, says Jean-Francois Legault, a fraud investigations specialist with Deloitte and Touche.
"I don't think there's any connection [to] the investments banks will make in fraud prevention," says Doug Johnson of the ABA. "It's not about making budget cuts; it's about protecting the customer relationship and ensuring security."
A consumer advocacy group is calling attention to a little-known fact about seven federal breach notification bills pending in Congress: They would leave certain healthcare information unprotected.
A U.S. District Court in Maine has affirmed a magistrate's May recommendation to deny a motion for a jury trial filed in the ACH-related fraud case between PATCO Construction Inc. and Ocean Bank.
Early results from the Healthcare Information Security Today survey show that insider threats, such as records snooping and ID theft, are perceived to be the most significant security threats to healthcare organizations.
When it comes to social media, organizations have to be vigilant and consistent with risk assessments that closely monitor and evaluate emerging threats, says Andrew Kennedy of BITS.
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