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• April 22, 2009 22 Apr'09

  Infected bank computers part of massive botnet, Finjan says

  Finjan researchers discovered a botnet of 1.9 million compromised computers at banks, government agencies and other organizations.

• April 14, 2009 14 Apr'09

  Protecting data in a merger and acquisition

  Upheaval in the financial-services industry has put the spotlight on financial information security. Experts share ways to keep sensitive information secure during an M&A.

• April 07, 2009 07 Apr'09

  Biometrics project studies ways to combat bank fraud

  Industry consortium launches effort to see how biometrics could improve customer authentication and battle identity theft. Analyst says iris scanning at ATMs holds potential.

• April 02, 2009 02 Apr'09

  Data masking tool helps protect student loan data

  Student loan guarantor deploys data masking technology to secure sensitive information used in development and testing.

• March 18, 2009 18 Mar'09

  Diebold ATMs in Russia targeted with malware

  Company issued a security update after criminals attacked its Windows-based ATMs in Russia and installed malware.

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• March 16, 2009 16 Mar'09

  Shared Assessments aims to ease third-party security evaluations

  Evaluating service provider controls can take a lot of time and effort, but the Shared Assessments program aims to give financial institutions and other organizations a way to streamline...

• March 16, 2009 16 Mar'09

  Visa removes Heartland, RBS from PCI list

  Breaches prompt Visa to remove payment processors from its list of PCI-compliant service providers.

• March 05, 2009 05 Mar'09

  Financial fraud affects consumer bank behavior, Gartner finds

  Survey finds victims of financial fraud more likely to change their shopping and payment behavior, including their choice of bank.

• March 03, 2009 03 Mar'09

  Study: banking Trojans dynamic, insidious

  Panda Security report examines increasingly sophisticated malware that aims to steal banking credentials.

• March 02, 2009 02 Mar'09

  Visa says no new breach

  Visa statement counters reports that a second payment processor was compromised.

• February 27, 2009 27 Feb'09

  Wells Fargo deploys Voltage for secure email

  Bank uses email encryption to securely exchange confidential information with commercial customers.

• February 24, 2009 24 Feb'09

  Heartland Payment Systems to vigorously defend breach claims, CEO says

  Heartland CEO Robert Carr said the company still can't reasonably estimate the potential impact of the data breach on its day-to-day operations.

• February 23, 2009 23 Feb'09

  Credit unions confirm new processor credit card breach

  The Pennsylvania Credit Union Association and the Tuscaloosa, Ala. VA Federal Credit Union warn of a new payment processor data security breach.

• February 13, 2009 13 Feb'09

  Three men arrested in connection with Heartland breach

  Trio arrested in Florida after allegedly using stolen credit card numbers for purchases at local Wal-Marts, officials said.

• February 11, 2009 11 Feb'09

  Financial firms focus on internal threats, employee errors

  Data protection, information leakage and identity and access management were a top priority for financial industry CISOs, according to a new survey.