Update to GLBA Security Requirements for Financial Institutions

Heads up financial institutions: the Federal Trade Commission FTC announced the first cybersecurity updates to the Gramm Leach-Bliley Act GLBA Safeguards Rule since 2003. The new rule strengthens the required security safeguards for customer information. This includes formal risk assessments,...

ID Thieves Turn to Snail Mail as Juicy Target for Financial Crimes

As it gets harder for cybercriminals to bypass business email compromise BEC defenses, some hackers are switching from email scams to real-mail cons. Researchers at Flashpoint said they are monitoring hacker forums where criminals are swapping tips on a growing ID theft and financial crime area,...

USPS, Amazon Data Leaks Showcase API Weaknesses

The annual holiday buying bonanza has officially kicked off for 2018, and, as if on cue, a pair of security incidents at two of the most-used services this time of year – the U.S. Postal Service and Amazon – showed up to remind us of the dangers of shopping season. Both hinged on improper API use...

The Risk of IoT Security Complacency

Trend Micro recently surveyed 1,150 IT executives globally. We found a gap between the perceived risk from IoT and the planned mitigation for that risk. Most senior executives recognize that IoT can introduce security risk to the organization, but few will invest resources to remediate that risk...

Cybersecurity in the Workplace is Everybody’s Business

What can individual users do to preserve cybersecurity at work? Your organization is spending on cybersecurity tools, you have an awareness program, and if you look you will find that there are standards and procedures for choosing and maintaining products to help keep information secure. But wha...

Why Bob Maley's Firing is Bad for All of Us

The news that Pennsylvania CISO Bob Maley lost his job for publicly discussing a security incident at last week’s RSA Conference really shouldn’t come as a surprise, but it does. Even for a government agency, this kind of lack of understanding of what actually matters is appalling and it is a...

Q&A: Andy Weeks Discusses the Challenges of Reconciling Security and Compliance

Dennis Fisher: Okay, welcome to the Digital Underground podcast. This is the third in our CSO series of podcasts with high level information security professionals and I’m very happy to have on the line today my guest Andy Weeks who is the manager of risk and compliance for enterprise information...

Real World Security – Bob Maley Interview

In the first installment of a new regular series, Dennis Fisher talks with Bob Maley, the CSO of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, about the challenges of running an information security program in a government agency, the effects of the economy on his efforts and the ways in which user education...