The website of the New York Stock Exchange slowed down significantly twice on Monday afternoon, the day when the hacker group Anonymous was scheduled to launch a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack on the website, according to an Internet and mobile cloud monitoring company.
John Ribeiro | 11 Oct | Read more
Researchers have discovered a new attack by a popular malware program, the <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/236562/spyeye_trojan_morphs_to_defeat_online_banking_defenses.html">SpyEye Trojan</a>, that is aimed at cracking security schemes that use text messaging to send confirmation codes to consumers so they can confirm transactions from their accounts.
John P. Mello Jr. | 07 Oct | Read more
After days of spotty online access, Bank of America (BofA) today said its Web and mobile services have not been hit by hacking or denial-of-service attacks. But the nation's largest bank would not disclose what's causing its website problems.
Lucas Mearian | 06 Oct | Read more
The <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/privacy-groups-protest-massive-dhs-database-s">Department of Homeland Security</a> works with financial institutions to thwart cyber attacks and plans to do so more and more in the future, according to DHS testimony to Congress, including sharing top secret cyber intelligence.
Tim Greene | 15 Sep | Read more
A 27 year-old bank cashier was fined £800 (A$1,226) yesterday for using her position at Barclays Bank to profile a customer who was the victim of a sex attack by the cashier’s husband.
A Finnish penetration testing company has released a free tool it says can detect all variants of five major families of malicious software that steal online banking credentials.
Jeremy Kirk | 06 Sep | Read more
Four major credit card companies are working with the Isis mobile wallet venture to install mobile payment security applications on upcoming NFC-ready smartphones in the U.S.
Matt Hamblen | 26 Aug | Read more
AusCERT general manager Graham Ingram has questioned the wisdom of Australia's National E-Health Strategy plans to make medical records available online, pointing to the difficulty of securing end-users' computers.
Stilgherrian | 25 Aug | Read more
Cybercriminals increasingly are targeting business bank accounts to set up fake money transfers. But the good news is, banks seem to be getting better at stopping some fraudulent transactions before stolen funds leave the institution.
Ellen Messmer | 26 Aug | Read more
Private Bank of America (BoA) files obtained by Wikileaks may have been deleted by a former spokesman of the whistleblower website, it has emerged.
Researchers have uncovered evidence that the infamous Zeus login-stealing Trojan has been blended with the Ramnit worm to create hybrid malware that can attack online bank accounts while spreading across networks.
John E. Dunn | 24 Aug | Read more
Despite my obsession with social media and constantly telling people where I am and what I'm doing, I pride myself as being a generally careful person with my personal data both online and in the non-web world.
Lisa Banks | 22 Aug | Read more
Have you been paying attention? <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/topic/17/Security">Security</a> threats around the world have changed over the past few years. One of the fundamental differences is that the motives for security breaches have multiplied.
Scot Finnie | 22 Aug | Read more
Researchers have documented a method for working out ATM PIN numbers using residual traces of heat left on keypads after they have been touched by a person's fingers.
John E Dunn | 18 Aug | Read more
Bank customers who still want to use a teller but are tired of queuing up at lunchtime will soon have a faster option if the big four banks decide to roll out NCR's APTRA video automatic teller machine (VTM).
Hamish Barwick | 15 Aug | Read more
Shrink-wrap and click-wrap agreements are the fine print you see, among other things, when you click through terms and conditions in accessing an online service (e.g., in connection with a cloud computing service) or as part of the installation of a piece of software.
Michael R. Overly | 03 Aug | Read more
Banks are facing more trouble from SpyEye, a piece of malicious software that steals money from people's online bank accounts, according to new research from security vendor Trusteer.
Jeremy Kirk | 27 Jul | Read more
Romanian law enforcement on Friday arrested more than 100 people alleged to be involved in a multi-million dollar US-Romanian fraud network.
The federal agency that regulates banks today issued new rules for online <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/security.html">security</a> for financial institutions, instructing them to use minimal types of "layered security" and fraud monitoring to better protect against <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2011/062311-andreas.html">cybercrime</a>.
Ellen Messmer | 29 Jun | Read more
After several large breaches -- including the <a href="http://blogs.csoonline.com/1457/epsilon_hack_notification_letters">Epsilon</a>, <a href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/680689/sony-playstation-network-personal-user-data-stolen">Sony</a>, and <a href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/684463/citigroup-reveals-breach-affected-over-360-000-cards">Citigroup</a> incidents that left customer financial data exposed -- federal lawmakers are dusting the covers off of an old idea: national data breach notification laws.
George V. Hulme | 27 Jun | Read more