The hacktivist group Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters announced Jan. 29 that it is suspending its second campaign of DDoS attacks against U.S. banks. Learn why the group is ending the campaign.
How are banks responding to DDoS phase 2? "From a technology standpoint, we have improved our defenses quite a bit," says Dan Holden of Arbor Networks. Experts discuss top DDoS lessons banks have learned.
On the same day Citi's online and mobile-banking channels went down for undisclosed reasons, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said top U.S. banks are "actively under attack."
BB&T Corp. confirms it's been hit by a DDoS attack, making it the ninth U.S. bank to be targeted in five weeks. The online outage at BB&T comes on the heels of the attack that hit Capital One on Oct. 16.
Cyberthieves are exploiting weaknesses in the U.S. payments infrastructure as an easy-to-travel avenue for access to intellectual capital, says risk consultant Bill Wansley. What can be done to stop them?
NIST's Ron Ross will be quite busy at RSA Conference 2012, not only promoting revised guidance on security and privacy controls to be unveiled at the securing conclave, but also participating in a panel on one of his favorite topics: continuous monitoring.
People, as much as anything else, are a critical aspect of information risk management, and businesses and government agencies must monitor employees - and educate them, as well - to thwart a potential threat from within.
As organizations move to the continuous monitoring of their IT systems to assure they're secure, they rely much more on automated processes. But don't forget the role people play.
New guidance from the National Institute of Standards and Technology defines an information security continuous monitoring strategy and shows how organizations can create an information security continuous monitoring program.
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