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Businesses Lose $1 Trillion a Year to Cyber-Crime

Posted by Paisano1 1091 days ago, popular 1090 days ago (http://information-security-resources.com)
Category: Business | Tags: breach data information it security
This report is a wake-up call because the current economic crisis is poised to create a global meltdown in vital information. Increased pressures on firms to reduce spending and cut staffing have led to more porous defenses and increased opportunity read more »
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Anatomy of a Data Breach: Interview with the FTC

Posted by Paisano1 1077 days ago (http://information-security-resources.com)
Category: Business | Tags: breach finance hackers heartland
“Once the intruder is on the network and able to move around, there is oftentimes a system of downloading hacker tools, and the tools do a couple of [...] read more »
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More Than 500 Banks Hurt By Breach

Posted by Paisano1 1081 days ago (http://information-security-resources.com)
Category: Business | Tags: breach data heartland it security
Following is the latest up-to-date list of institutions impacted by the Heartland breach and - where available - the total number of cards compromise[...] read more »
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Top 10 Confidential Data Breaches of 2008

Posted by Paisano1 1108 days ago (http://information-security-resources.com)
Category: Personal Finance | Tags: breach data information it security
UPDATE: The estimated number of people affected by a data breach at Bank of New York Mellon Corp has been raised from 4.5 million to 12.5 million. As many as 4.5 million customer records are thought to be compromised. Raised from 4.5 million to 12.5 read more »
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Heartland Now Under SEC Investigation

Posted by Paisano1 1079 days ago (http://information-security-resources.com)
Category: Stocks | Tags: breach finance hackers heartland
“The investigation may relate to stock trades made by Heartland Chairman and CEO Robert Carr after Visa notified Heartland of suspicious activity on [...] read more »
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Heartland Suit Alleges “Inadequate” Security

Posted by Paisano1 1078 days ago (http://information-security-resources.com)
Category: Stocks | Tags: breach finance heartland lawsuit
...failed to disclose or indicate, among other things, that: (1) the Company’s safety and security measures designed to protect consumers’ financial [...] read more »
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Heartland Payment Systems Data Breach Hits Local Banks

Posted by Paisano1 1104 days ago (http://information-security-resources.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: breach data information it security
“The consumers get mad at the bank for something that’s not their fault,” he said. “They place responsibility on (banks) for a breach at a processor in some other state used by a vendor where the customer used their card, but at the end of the day.. read more »
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McAfee Report: Our Unsecured Economies

Posted by Paisano1 1088 days ago (http://information-security-resources.com)
Category: Business | Tags: breach data information it security
Our society’s sensitive systems and information, the underpinnings of the transactions and information flow facilitating our quasi-orderly daily lives, are absolutely ripe for a zero day attack - an electronic information debacle that will shut us d read more »
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Undisclosed Breach Threatens Consumers : Information Security Resources

Posted by Paisano1 1081 days ago (http://information-security-resources.com)
Category: Business | Tags: breach data heartland it security
What we still don’t know is what processor has been breached. According to the aforementioned article, and as has been confirmed by our sources, VISA[...] read more »
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Class Action Lawsuit Filed for Heartland Data Breach

Posted by Paisano1 1107 days ago (http://information-security-resources.com)
Category: Business | Tags: breach data information it security
This is a class action lawsuit brought on behalf of Plaintiff, individually, and on behalf of similarly situated consumers or entities whose credit and/or debit card number(s), expiration date(s), internal bank codes, personal identifying informat.. read more »
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Did Heartland (HPY) CEO Make Insider Stock trades Trades? (Chart)

Posted by Paisano1 1107 days ago (http://information-security-resources.com)
Category: Stocks | Tags: breach data information it security
The date they settle on may well be the difference between market serendipity and an SEC investigation for insider trading, as an examination of stock sales made by Heartland CEO Robert O. Carr in the second half of 2008 raises some serious question read more »
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Fannie Mae Logic Bomb Threat Thwarted

Posted by Paisano1 1106 days ago (http://information-security-resources.com)
Category: Business | Tags: breach data fannie mae it security
A logic bomb allegedly planted by a former engineer at mortgage finance company Fannie Mae last fall would have decimated all 4,000 servers at the company, causing millions of dollars in damage and shutting down Fannie Mae for a least a week, prosec read more »
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ISR News: Heartland Class Action Lawsuit

Posted by Paisano1 1059 days ago (http://information-security-resources.com)
Category: Stocks | Tags: breach finance heartland lawsuit
An investor has filed a proposed class action in the US district court of New Jersey on behalf of all other investors in Heartland between August 200[...] read more »
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ISR News: WorldPay (CORRECTION: NOT PROPAY) Suffers $9M Heist

Posted by Paisano1 1101 days ago (http://information-security-resources.com)
Category: Business | Tags: breach data information it security
ATM heist last November resulted in a one-day haul of $9 million in cash, after a hacker penetrated a server at payment processor RBS WorldPay...
(CORRECTING EARLIER POST ON INFORMATION-SECURITY-RESOURCES.COM - WorldPay NOT ProPay) read more »
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Another Payment Card Processor Hacked

Posted by Paisano1 1090 days ago (http://information-security-resources.com)
Category: Business | Tags: breach data heartland it security
There had been indications in early Heartland reports that the FBI was pursuing suspects who may be part of a larger criminal conspiracy targeting multiple companies, but there are no reports yet as to whether this latest breach is part of that inve read more »
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