Chris Bedel

5 things you need to know about social engineering

Social engineering plays an important part in a significant number of cyberattacks, however big, small or sophisticated the crime is. In fact, as ESET’s senior researcher David Harley has previously observed, it has “been a constant all through the...

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Community Bank CISO: New IT Booklet Calls for More Strategic Role

The role of the community bank ISO has seen some changes over the years. The position at one time was thought to only be applicable to the big banks....

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5 Ways to Avoid Health Data Breaches

With healthcare contributing 3 of the 7 largest breaches in 2015, it might be an understatement to say that many healthcare organizations have been...

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Why Regulatory Scrutiny of Banks Will Intensify in 2016

Cyberattacks against U.S. banks will continue to increase in 2016, making cybersecurity oversight and enforcement of anti-money-laundering laws focal...

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CISOs face challenges talking to boards about cyber risks

While chief information security officers are increasingly getting the ear of board members, they are not necessarily communicating security risks...

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New FFIEC IT Management Booklet: What your Board Needs to Know

Gone are the days where the Board of Directors at a financial institution could assign the responsibility of Information Security (now called...

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Hacker Leaks Customer Data After a United Arab Emirates Bank Fails to Pay Ransom

The hacker, who calls himself Hacker Buba, breached the network of a bank in Sharjah last month identified as Invest Bank by The Daily Dot, and began...

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Krebs: Lifting a freeze to enable credit monitoring is like….CRAZY!

Krebsonsecurity.com: Many readers wrote in this past week to say they’d finally been officially notified that their fingerprints, background checks,...

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Cyber Resilience - New Focus in OCC Operating Plan for 2016

The OCC included “Cybersecurity and Resilience Planning” as a focus for 2016 in the release of their most recent Operating Plan. They went on to more...

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Lahey Hospital Fined $850,000 in HIPAA Case

Federal regulators have announced a HIPAA resolution agreement with Lahey Hospital and Medical Center in Burlington, Mass., stemming from an...

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