An NSA contractor who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton has been accused of stealing top-secret documents that the U.S. says could endanger national security. The documents are critical to a "wide variety of national security issues," the Department of Justice says.
Bank watchdog Sen. Elizabeth Warren is going after Wells Fargo for violating the privacy of bank customers. This news leads the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report.
Wells Fargo will pay $185 million in fines over employees illegally subscribing customers to banking products they didn't request - creating 2 million ghost accounts in the process - in what appears to be one of the largest cases of identity theft ever recorded.
The insider threat is a dangerous risk to government agencies and their most sensitive data. Monitoring the behaviors internally and identifying corrupt situations based on access, roles and actions is not a luxury government agencies can afford to go without.
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The term Insider Threat brings to mind the malicious employee, motivated by either money or politics to steal data that can be sold on a black market or used to damage the organization's reputation.
According to a Ponemon report, unintentional employee negligence severely diminishes the productivity of the...
When desktops ruled the enterprise, employers may not have claimed to have absolute control over their workers' usage of technology and data, but they surely could contain it. Whether overtly or tacitly, leadership has now empowered its employees. Thanks to mobility, the cloud and other advancements, workers decide...
As a technology professional, you know that data, network and system failures aren't your biggest problems. It's the humans who interact with these systems that cause the issues.
High-risk insider threats - malicious, careless or negligent employees - are one of the main causes of data breaches. Most of the time,...
What are the biggest threats to your organization's data? Recent media attention to high-profile cyberattacks would lead an organization to think external threats are its only concern. Unfortunately, this misconception allows another significant threat to your organization's critical assets to stay completely under...
Close on the heels of the QNB leak, the same attackers have published data that appears to be from UAE-based InvestBank. The dump appears to contain payment card data, as well as a large number of sensitive, internal files relating to the bank's employees and systems.
A preview of director Oliver Stone's upcoming film "Snowden" portrays former NSA contractor Edward Snowden as a gung-ho action hero - a cunning insider and a clever operative.
Security experts worldwide are sorting through the implications of the so-called "Panama Papers" leak, involving 11.5 million records. The documents highlight an elaborate web of offshore holdings that everyone from heads of state to celebrities and fraudsters have allegedly used to hide billions of dollars.
Today's advanced attacks focus more on exploiting human flaws than system flaws. In 2015, attackers shifted away from
automated exploits and instead engaged people to do the dirty work- infecting systems,
stealing credentials, and transferring funds. Across all vectors and in attacks of all sizes,
threat actors...
When it comes to threat detection, spotting malicious insiders is one thing. They often leave a trail. But how do you protect against the accidental insider threat? Organizations need to deploy tools such as spam filters, secure gateways and sandboxing technologies to help
mitigate the vulnerabilities introduced by...
In this in-depth audio report, a panel of experts addresses the challenge of detecting insider threats and outlines the latest approaches, including "sentiment and linguistic" systems.
Significant threats and massive breaches make front-page news on a regular basis, leaving businesses and consumers wondering whether their data could ever be considered safe again. Major vulnerabilities have been found lurking in well-known applications, many of which had been dormant for more than 10 years. Once...
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