Distributed-denial-of-service attacks jumped significantly in 2012. And it's not just banking institutions that are victims, Verizon finds in its just-released Data Breach Investigations Report.
European banks are the latest distributed-denial-of-service attack targets. But experts say these attacks apparently are not linked to the strikes U.S. banks have battled in recent months.
We talk increasingly about what we have in common - global risks, threats and growing an effective security workforce. But what are the unique characteristics of individual marketplaces? That's a question I hope to answer this week in London.
In this week's breach roundup, read about the latest incidents, including hackers accessing a cloud-hosting provider's servers and a stolen laptop potentially exposing personal details of mental health patients.
To retain their customers after a breach of sensitive information, organizations should take the extra step of calling those affected to offer free credit protection services, says security expert Brian Dean.
In this week's breach roundup, read about the latest incidents, including hackers accessing a student application database at an Iowa community college and a missing laptop at a VA hospital.
U.S. banking institutions are reluctant to acknowledge - much less discuss - ongoing DDoS attacks. But in recent regulatory statements, the nation's largest banks are candid about DDoS and its impact.
Call center fraud is becoming a bigger problem for banks and credit unions, and one new scheme identified by a community bank in Georgia illustrates how scams are getting more difficult to detect.
In this week's breach roundup, read about three laptop theft incidents at healthcare organizations, including one that affected 13,000 home care clients.
History shows that DDoS phase 3 may end soon, and banking institutions can expect an even more powerful 4th wave. "There is little reason for the attacks to cease," says Javelin's Al Pascual.
Extortionists employing telephony-denial-of-service attacks - a close relative to distributed-denial-of-service attacks - are targeting emergency communications centers that dispatch first responders.
American Express confirms it was hit this week by a distributed-denial-of-service attack. The hacktivist group that has targeted banks in recent months claims credit for this latest high-profile attack.
In this week's breach roundup, read about three healthcare incidents, including the theft of two unencrypted laptops that contained patient data and paper records scheduled for shredding that went missing.
Was the Spamhaus DDoS incident truly the "biggest cyber-attack in history," as some media outlets dubbed it? And what relation - if any - does it have to DDoS attacks on U.S. banking institutions?
TD Bank and Keybank confirm that their online-banking sites were hit by DDoS strikes last week. And one security expert says other banks were hit by sophisticated attacks as well.
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