Akamai's acquisition of DDoS mitigation provider Prolexic Technologies is a sign of how the DDoS-defense marketplace is maturing at a time when attacks are becoming more sophisticated.
The emergence of attackers-for-hire is a troubling trend in cybercrime, and one particular group is changing its techniques to gain access to computer systems, says Symantec researcher Kevin Haley.
Inadequate authentication is among the greatest security challenges for online payments, says Scott Dueweke of Booz Allen Hamilton, who suggests biometrics needs to play a bigger role.
The good news is: U.S. banks have learned valuable security lessons from defending against recent distributed-denial-of-service attacks. The bad news? DDoS has evolved into new and improved assaults.
Banking executives were among the CEOs who met with President Obama at the White House to discuss cybersecurity strategies. Paul Smocer of BITS explains how this discussion may pay off for financial institutions.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is the first major U.S. banking regulator to issue updated guidance on third-party risks. What are the key tenets, and what should institutions expect next?
The good news is: U.S. banks have learned valuable security lessons from defending against recent distributed-denial-of-service attacks. The bad news? DDoS has evolved into new and improved assaults.
What are some of the unique challenges organizations face when they move into continuous monitoring and risk mitigation? Scott Gordon of ForeScout and Ken Pfeil of Pioneer Investments offer insight.
Sharing information about cyber-attacks is making a difference in the banking sector, helping bring criminals to justice and curbing fraud losses. Other sectors should learn from banking's example.
Each quarter Prolexic publishes a wide variety of metrics gathered from distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against its global client base, which includes over 100 financial services firms. This quarter showed a significant shift in tactics as DDoS perpetrators used more reflection attacks, which increased...
What are some of the unique challenges organizations face when they move into continuous monitoring and risk mitigation? Scott Gordon of ForeScout and Ken Pfeil of Pioneer Investments offer insight.
The cyberthreats that menace the global economy are multiplying at an alarming rate. From denial-of-service attacks to take a website offline to corporate account takeover and malware, financial institutions should take notice of the information security threats that could deeply affect their infrastructure in this...
Fraudsters are using DDoS to distract banks during account takeover attempts, says fraud prevention expert Avivah Litan, who highlights DDoS trends to watch in 2014 and reviews how attack techniques have evolved in the last year.
Face-to-face and over-the-phone social-engineering schemes are increasingly used to perpetrate fraud, highlighting the need for more education and real-time transaction monitoring, says Gartner's Avivah Litan.
Despite the recent lull in al-Qassam Cyber Fighters' DDoS attacks against U.S. banks, the ABA's Doug Johnson and FS-ISAC's Bill Nelson warn banks to avoid complacency, noting that DDoS attacks pose an ongoing threat.
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