The Dark Overlord selling stolen healthcare databases for bitcoins leads the ISMG Security Report. Also hear about banks' move toward real-time transaction fraud controls and a bipartisan attempt in Congress to tackle... Read more »
Researcher Posts Links to Hundreds of Millions of CredentialsThe MySpace and LinkedIn data dumps have been made available by a security researcher on his website, which is perhaps the most easily accessible... Read more »
Google's Tavis Ormandy Finds More Flaws Exploitable via a Single EmailGoogle Project Zero researcher Tavis Ormandy has once again found major vulnerabilities in Symantec's security products. Symantec has released updates, but not... Read more »
Alleged Hackers Dump Massive Archive of Critical DataHyderabad-based Shriram Life Insurance is alleged to have suffered a huge breach involving over 50 GB of critical data, including customer information. The reported attackers... Read more »
Meanwhile, Ukrainian Bank Reports $10 Million Theft via SWIFTBangladesh Bank has opted to not extend a contract with the incident response team that it hired to investigate the theft of $81 million... Read more »
In the wake of recent SWIFT-related interbank payment heists, more banks are monitoring transactions for anomalous behavior in an attempt to catch fraud in real time, says Andrew Davies, a fraud prevention... Read more »
As more organizations in the Asian market outsource their security functions, they still will need to have a CISO, stresses Scott Robertson, vice president for Asia-Pacific and Japan at the cloud-based security... Read more »
Britain's surprise vote to "Brexit" the European Union leads the ISMG Security Report. Also hear analysis on a cybercrime forum selling remote server access; Comodo being in hot water by saying "let's... Read more »
Achieving international acceptance of PCI-DSS is an ongoing challenge, says Jeremy King, international director of the PCI Security Standards Council, who's working to educate merchants about baseline security that goes far beyond... Read more »
But Legislative Group Hug Won't Change Encryption FactsWould access to better information pertaining to encryption help Congress pass good crypto-related laws? That's the impetus behind a "Digital Security Commission" and a related... Read more »