ABA Offers Identity Protection Tips
In recognition of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, ABA offered tips consumers can use to prevent identity theft, which is estimated to have affected 17.6 million Americans in 2014.
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FSSCC Makes Recommendations to Presidential Cyber Commission
The American Bankers Association, in partnership with the Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council, offered five recommendations last week to the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity aimed at mitigating the increasingly advanced threats related to cyber crime.
How Malware on Customer Devices Threatens the Bank
Client-side injected malware can harm the customer’s digital journey.
FBI Issues Warning about Email Scams
The FBI yesterday issued a notification warning companies of the ongoing threat of business email compromise scams that caused losses of nearly $76 million between December 2015 and March 2016.
Interagency Committee Holds Meeting on Cybersecurity
Members of the Financial and Banking Information Infrastructure Committee — a group of representatives from 18 federal and state financial regulatory organizations — met on Tuesday in Washington, D.C., to discuss cybersecurity policy issues in the financial sector.
Federal Agencies Release Ransomware Resources
Several federal agencies today released two new resources developed to inform senior executives at critical infrastructure entities of the threat of ransomware.
FBI Updates Business Email Compromise PSA
The FBI on Tuesday released an updated public service announcement to provide new information and statistical data related to business email compromise scams.
ABA Applauds Proposed Botnet Legislation
ABA today thanked members of the Senate Judiciary Committee for introducing the Botnet Prevention Act of 2016 (S. 2391), which would enhance the Department of Justice’s efforts to combat cyber threats, including distributed denial of service and other botnet attacks.
Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking
Each year, millions of dollars are lost to a type of fraud that’s particularly difficult to detect and stop, and it’s all based on a criminal’s ability to exploit a basic human characteristic: the tendency to trust.
ABA Op-Ed: ‘Strong Security Standards Are in Everyone’s Interest’
The retail industry’s continued emphasis on static technologies impedes innovation and stands in the way of consumer protection, said ABA SVP Jess Sharp in an op-ed in The Hill today.