The latest ISMG Security Report leads with a look at the ransomware attack against San Francisco's light rail agency. Also featured is an analysis of the ongoing fallout from Australia's online census project.
Score one for preparation: In the wake of a ransomware attack that infected 900 workstations, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency says it's restoring affected systems, vowing to not give the attackers a single bitcoin of their ransom demand.
Learn how a European bank is saving $5 million a year in write-offs. They were experiencing rising roll rates, delinquencies and write-offs wanted to improve loss line without increasing operational costs or head count in collections. Now, prescriptive analytics are driving collection and recovery performance up by as...
Over the past three decades, there have been a great number of technological changes in the financial services world and regulators have struggled to keep up with them. The following white paper discusses the evolution and consequences of the Payments Service Directive and how regulation has gotten more complicated as...
As more organizations take advantage of cloud computing, it's essential that they set precise security expectations with their vendor partners, Carson Sweet of CloudPassage says in this video interview.
A ransomware attack against San Francisco's Muni public transportation network attack over the busy Thanksgiving holiday - and Black Friday shopping - weekend left more than 2,000 fare-handling systems locked, leading officials to let people ride for free.
IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact study and examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying IBM Trusteer solutions. The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial benefit of IBM Trusteer...
After the recent compromise of 3.2 million debit cards details in India, Ravi Shankar Prasad, minister of IT and law, is calling for more organizations to have a third-party security audit and hire a CISO.
IBM will pay an unspecified amount to the Australian government for the vendor's role in the technical problems related to the recent online census, which dented public confidence in large-scale IT projects.
Cybercriminals broke into the payment card processing system used by the Madison Square Garden Co., owner of Radio City Music Hall and other iconic entertainment venues, harvesting payment card details for nearly a year.
In September, the annual G20 summit - the gathering of leaders from 20 major global economies- was held in China. NSFOCUS was selected to provide security protection. Guy Rosefelt discusses that mission and its unique challenges.
Phishing attacks arguably are the most persistent-and pernicious-cyberattacks that organizations face. They have grown to be more targeted and dangerous, as the variety of attack methods continue to evolve and the number of threat actors proliferate.
Styles of phishing continue to metamorphose from scattershot...
Security vendor Symantec plans to integrate identity theft protection services into its product offerings with its just-announced $2.3 billion pending acquisition of LifeLock, which has 4.4 million customers.
So, if 2016 was the year when mobile security threats finally started to materialize and mature, what can we expect to see in 2017? Tom Wills of Ontrack Advisory shares insight on the mobility threatscape and new enterprise solutions.
Eighty-eight percent of citizens polled in a CDG survey say online government services are easy to use, while 87 percent of business owners and managers say they make it easier to do business with state governments. 24/7 government is ubiquitous - it's working, and it's working well. However, the transition to a...
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