Here’s a question for you. Who is behind all the hacking and cybercrime that we read about in our newspapers every week? Who’s controlling the hackers? Well, according to Troels Oerting, Head of Europol’s Cybercrime Centre, it’s an exclusive bunch of malware programming specialists. They are, he believes, around a hundred of these individual, mostly …
When J P Morgan announced in August that 1 million of its users’ bank accounts had been hacked by criminals, there was an outcry. Many security professionals understandably wanted to know why it had taken the bank 2 months to notify users about cyber-breach. They also wondered whether the bank might have been economical with …
What’s the biggest risk to the security of the financial services sector? Is it the threat of cyber-attack by unscrupulous hackers? Well – yes and no. Obviously financial institutions are at risk from hackers and are therefore taking the necessary steps to minimise the risks they are exposed to, but according to Brian Lord, a …
What does the term ‘cyber resilience’ mean to you? The chances are the answer is not very much. Yes, you could hazard a guess about it roughly relating to the protection of valuable online assets and data against third party theft or hacking, but the probability is that that’s as far as your definition would …