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Are Financial Services IT Pros Overconfident in Data Breach Detection Skills?

Tripwire studied confidence vs. knowledge of financial services IT security pros on seven key security controls necessary to detect a data breach. For many controls IT pros believed they had the information necessary to detect a breach quickly but provided contradictory information about the specific data.   Image ...
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Five Men Arrested in Connection with the 2014 JPMorgan Hack

In August of 2014, it was reported that a group of hackers had exploited a vulnerability in the websites of JPMorgan. After breaking into the company’s network, the attackers then allegedly staged additional attacks that were custom-made to JPMorgan’s servers, which gained them access to internal systems on which customer account data was stored. Several months later,...
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80% of Retailers Failed Interim PCI Compliance Assessments

Image   Despite retailers’ continuous improvement in compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) security standards, four out of five companies are still failing at interim assessments, according to Verizon’s latest report. The report highlights that the overall state of compliance grew significantly in 2014, with 20 percent of...