The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) could soon release new guidelines for banks to use when authenticating users to online banking transactions. The new guidelines will clarify the FFIEC’s existing guidelines on the subject and more explicitly inform banks about what they need to do to bolster online authentication, said Avivah Litan, an analyst [...]
Q: Growing tired of the Facebook privacy scandals, I tried to leave the social network, but you need to be a member now to access a number of outside websites. How can I get around this? A: Facebook, as you’re well aware by this point, has a history of privacy scandals. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is [...]
It has become one of the perils of everyday life on the information highway — a cyberattack. For the Pentagon, which operates 15,000 networks and owns more than a million computers, the risks are huge. Though Defense systems are attacked constantly — 5,000 times per day by some accounts, and scanned millions of times per [...]
PLANO, Texas — In January 2010, security experts discovered that the crown jewels of U.S. information technology computer codes may have been stolen in a highly sophisticated case of cyberespionage. In April, China hijacked an uncountable amount of Internet data. In August, the Stuxnet virus shocked the same experts. The malware that infected Siemens operating [...]
Today more than any other time in history, protecting company privacy is essential. Unfortunately, the number of cases associated with identify theft have not only risen but also moved from personal to business. Over the past few years, a number of large companies and even government agencies have been in the news for having laptop [...]
Nicolas Christin makes a living out of cybercrime. As the Associate Director for the Information Networking Institute (INI), and a professor at CyLab, Carnegie Mellon University’s cybersecurity education and research center, Christin is on the front lines of academic research into how cybercrooks thrive and what can be done to stop them. Christin spoke with [...]
New legislation, if passed in US congress next month, could drastically change how we use the Internet. The bill, if enacted, would prevent websites from sharing information with unrelated third parties. The bill is creating a stir because the information sharing that it aims to protect is the type of data collection that allows large-scale [...]
Click Fraud, the practice of generating automatic clicks on search ads, is becoming a significant threat to search engine advertising, according to a BusinessWeek cover story. The article exposes how Google and Yahoo are passively profiting from click fraud and, in theory, “have an incentive to tolerate it.” According to a BusinessWeek investigation, there’s a thriving [...]
