Your email account can contain a lot of personal information, from bank alerts to love letters.
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Your email account can contain a lot of personal information, from bank alerts to love letters. Email that, I’m sure, you don’t always want other people to see. We understand how important your Gmail accounts are to you, so we’re adding a new layer of information and control. With this new feature, you can now [...]

Computer hackers have managed to withdraw millions of rands from the Limpopo Health and Education Departments’ accounts. The provincial government has acted to stop the loss, asking banks to freeze about R5 million in different bank accounts.The head of the provincial Treasury Department, Rob Tooley, says they have also suspended a government employee and are [...]

SecureWorks announced today that SecureWorks? Director of Malware Research, Joe Stewart, has uncovered one of the largest caches of stolen hacker data ever reported, if not the largest.The hacking scam involves thousands of employees of hundreds of organizations worldwide who have been infected with the bank and information -stealing trojan Coreflood, also known as AFcore. [...]

What would the perfect phishing attack from a social engineering perspective? The one that compared to using typosquatted domains impersonating the bank?s web application directory structure is in fact using the bank?s legitimate domain names as redirectors due to XSS flaws within. It?s even more interesting to measure the average time it takes for a [...]

Citibank officials monitoring their network for fraud on Thursday, May 8, noticed suspicious ATM transactions at 8:30 p.m., coming through the five cash machines in the vestibule of a Citibank branch at 65th Street and Madison Avenue in New York City’s Upper East Side.As luck would have it, a bank employee — probably a corporate [...]

At least 200 consumers have been hit with fraudulent transactions involving their bank or credit union accounts, and officials say a server intrusion last month in Indiana may be to blame.

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A computer intrusion into a Citibank server that processes ATM withdrawals led to two Brooklyn men making hundreds of fraudulent withdrawals from New York City cash machines in February, pocketing at least $750,000 in cash, according to federal prosecutors.The ATM crime spree is apparently the first to be publicly linked to the breach of a [...]

Research has demonstrated that customers’ overall satisfaction rating with a bank is dependent on their impression of the usefulness of the bank’s website. As a result, banks are looking for ways to i…
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Bank of New York Mellon Corp. late last week implemented new policies to protect data stored on backup tapes that are transported to off-site after drives were twice lost by couriers this year.

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A New York bank confirmed that it lost a box of data storage tapes containing the unencrypted personal information of 4.5 million people during transit to an off-site facility.

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Articles in this issue include: Proactive analysis of malware genes holds the key to network security, Advanced social engineering and human exploitation, part 1, Free visualization tools for security analysis and network monitoring, Hiding inside a rainbow, Internet terrorist: does such a thing really exist?, Weaknesses and protection of your wireless network, Fraud mitigation and [...]