Cybercrime is an entire economy. And like in any market, current trends fade and new ones take their place.
Notable attack trends such as fileless malware employing PowerShell scripts, watering hole attacks that employ destructive payloads, and island hopping via cloud are forcing enterprises to adopt a new...
With the advent of technology in personal healthcare - internet connected glucose monitors, intravenous blood pressure monitoring, personal best friend emotional bots - a lot of highly sensitive data that's rampantly traversing the airwaves. The impact of this data getting in the wrong hands is just starting to be...
"Know your customer" is a familiar refrain in banking circles. But as threat actors grow in number, sophistication and cross-channel schemes, it is increasingly important for organizations to also have a clear picture of their potential attackers - whether they are nation-states, cybercrime gangs or lone actors. In...
Maintaining strong payments security practices is a continuously moving target given the ever-evolving payments ecosystem and dynamic nature of the threat environment. The commitment to improve security is a priority throughout the payments industry as evidenced by the ongoing collaboration across these issues. This...
By exploring the answers to a series of novel questions (e.g. what do mobile payments and driverless cars have in common?), this talk will illustrate new approaches to preventing and stopping fraud by first illustrating the paradoxes of applying traditional approaches to a variety of new and emerging use cases (cloud,...
A new strain of the Petya ransomware called "Bad Rabbit" is impacting business and sweeping across Russia and Ukraine, among other Eastern European countries. Like many of the other ransomware outbreaks, understanding fact from fiction is the first step in staying safe.
As the financial services industry rapidly changes, and new digital products and services are redefining how consumers interact with their money, there is added network complexity brought on by these new products. Financial networks are increasingly harder to defend, allowing hackers to exploit loopholes in security...
As of Q1 2018, the global cybersecurity community finds themselves inundated with both internal and external advanced threat actors who are stealthier, more resilient and sadly, more effective than they have ever been before. Many organizations are coming to terms with deciding whether their security posture is...
The black market for cybercrime is worth more than $2 trillion, and more than half of companies have been hit with successful attacks. No matter the crime, the threat of punishment historically has not deterred criminals. So what does? You must change the economic equation. If they can't make money, they don't do the...
The success of a Business Email Compromise (BEC) attack lies in exploiting the trust and familiarity between sender and recipient, and evading traditional security solutions by eliminating the use of malicious URLs or attachments - which existing security solutions were never designed to do.
According to the FBI,...
The financial industry continues to be a high-risk target for fraud, primarily fueled by the sale of stolen credentials, account numbers, pins, and personal and financial information.
While larger financial institutions have dedicated in-house teams and sophisticated technologies in place to detect incidents,...
The adoption of e- and m-commerce has created new opportunities for fraudsters to falsify identities and defraud merchants, consumers, and banks out of millions.
However, preventing fraudulent transactions with fewer instances of false positives is possible by leveraging shared transaction data from a consortium of...
This monthly Security Agenda will highlight some of the most recent additions to our course library. This month's edition features Christiana Care's Anahi Santiago on 2018 risk management priorities. Another influencer, Lewin and Associates' Dr. Jack Lewin discusses the latest medical device security threats. This...
Fraud is a pervasive and insidious attack on all. Financial service organizations, retailers, insurers, healthcare providers, governments - they all bear the burden. What can be done to more effectively reduce this scourge?
In this session, Art Coviello, former CEO of RSA Security, draws on his decades of security...
While many .gov domains have attempted DMARC, few have succeeded in using it to stop fraud. In fact, an exclusive analysis shows that 96 percent of government domains are easy to impersonate with fake emails that appear to come from their domains.
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