A study of 17 major banks by the University of New Haven Cyber Forensic Research and Education Group shows that six of them have weak password handling and that their password procedures are weaker than most social websites.
The University of South Carolina announced the creation of "SC Cyber,” a consortium of business, academic, and government partners that will train businesses how to beef up cybersecurity and fight cyber crime.
Heartland Payment Systems announced it has worked with the Smart Card Alliance to launch the National Center for Advanced Payments and Identity Security, a new training facility hosted by the Alliance.
The majority of business decision makers admit that their organization will suffer an information security breach and that the cost of recovery could start from around $1 million.
So, here we are, living in the “future”… many of us now finally have chip cards; the G20 nations are all in the post “liability-shift” world; we’re all expecting to be living in the new paradigm.
In the past few years a number of high-profile data breaches have garnered widespread media attention resulting in greater general scrutiny and awareness of the need for network security.
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