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Cybersecurity

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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Cybersecurity 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.

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