ID Theft

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  How Phishing Attacks Are Evolving

  Poor Internet Hygiene Enables Criminal Activity By Tracy Kitten
  

  Phishing attacks are up, and the methods are changing. Paul Ferguson of the Anti-Phishing Working Group explains how phishers are fine-tuning their schemes and exploiting cross-platform technologies.

• Article

  BofA Confirms Third-Party Breach

  Bank Spokesman: Customer Data is Secure By Tracy Kitten
  

  Bank of America confirms hacktivists' reports about a breach of a third-party service provider working with the bank to analyze public data. How did the breach occur, and what information was exposed?

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  Report: 28% of Breaches Lead to Fraud

  New ID Fraud Report Studies Consumer Impact of Breaches By Tracy Kitten
  

  New research says more than 25 percent of consumers hit by a data breach later become victims of identity fraud - especially when payment card information is exposed. Javelin's Al Pascual shares analysis.

• Article

  Defending Against 'Blitzkrieg' Trojan

  Researcher Reviews New Findings About Gozi-Prinimalka By Jeffrey Roman
  

  The Gozi Trojan variant known as Prinimalka is expected to target 30 banking institutions in spring 2013. Now McAfee researcher Ryan Sherstobitoff says new research sheds light on how to prepare.

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  Preventing Insider Medical ID Theft

  Recent Cases Spotlight Fraud Risks By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee
  

  Three recent identity theft incidents highlight the need for healthcare organizations to stay vigilant in preventing fraud involving insiders. Security experts offer advice.

White Papers

• How to Stop Spear Phishing Attacks: Combating the Attack of Choice for Cybercriminals

  

  Learn how to prevent spear phishing - the latest and most dangerous technique in the cybercriminal's arsenal - from infiltrating your networks and compromising your customer data, intellectual...

• Reaping the "Trust Dividend" - Federal Agencies Can Move Services Online Now with an Identity Button (Like Facebook) - and Save Billions

  

  The move of paper-based transactional services online doesn't create just cost savings and efficiencies. E-Gov creates a "Trust Dividend," thanks to the use of trustable online identities - issued by...

• The Three Pillars of Trust: Adopting a New Service Architecture for Trusted Transactions with Government on the Internet

  

  All organizations - including federal agencies - must leverage technologies that exist today to secure online transaction systems for E-Gov. Until now, fragmented silos of security technologies have...

Webinars

• Security Readiness: How to Combat Healthcare IT Security Threats

  Since August of 2009, 552 large-scale breaches of PHI have been reported to HHS, impacting nearly 22 million people. OCR recently reported (somewhat to their surprise) that over two-thirds of the...

• Misplaced Trust in the Mobile Platform

  Metaforic will host a mobile security webinar with an additional speaker from Forrester. The one-hour session will provide an overview of the latest mobile threats, and will discuss in detail the...

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  Webinar

  Vendor Management Part I: FDIC Explains How to Manage Your Outsourcing Risks

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  Article

  Incident Response: Next-Gen Skills

  Evolving Threats Call for Evolving Proficiencies

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  Interview

  BITS on Top Fraud Threats to Banks

  New Fraud Prevention VP on Latest Trends, Strategies

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  Blog

  HIPAA Omnibus: Vendor Contracts

  Pay Attention to Those Business Associate Agreements

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  Whitepaper

  Improving Risk Management Strategies using Identity Attributes

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  Article

  Celebrity Breach Leads Roundup

  Information Posted on Public Website

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  Article

  Rural Providers Get HIE Help

  Toolkit Addresses Privacy, Security Issues

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  Interview

  Comparing Medical Devices on Security

  New Tool Will Help With Assessments

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  Article

  Cyber Commander Addresses DDoS

  Says It's Not Government's Role to Defend Banks

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  Article

  Keeping Data Queries, Responses Secure

  Tiger Team Examines Health Data Exchange Issues