cyber attacks

• Suit Seeks To Hook Phishers

  By Missy Baxter  |  May 20, 2013

  A South Carolina credit union is taking what legal experts say is a rare legal approach to combat phishing by filing a civil lawsuit and winning a court order to serve subpoenas on Internet service providers and phone companies related to the case without waiting for a pretrial conference.

• South Carolina Credit Union Goes After Phishers

  By Missy Baxter  |  May 17, 2013

  AllSouth FCU wins court order, deemed rare, that allows it to subpoena third-party communications providers.

• Hackers Force California's Clearpath FCU Offline

  By Robert McGarvey  |  May 9, 2013

  Credit union's online banking host forced to shut site down when it was taken over and used for attacks on other sites.

• Experts Urge IT Due Diligence Despite No May 7 Attacks

  By Heather Anderson  |  May 8, 2013

  Hacktivists Anonymous threats failed to materialize but that doesn't mean DDoS attacks won't follow, and they could go beyond the website.

• No News Is Good News for CUs on Anonymous May 7 Hit List

  By Heather Anderson  |  May 7, 2013

  No credit union website takedowns reported Tuesday.

• Anonymous May 7 Target List Includes 12 Large Credit Unions

  By Heather Anderson  |  May 6, 2013

  Tuesday's the day hackers Anonymous promised to take down sites.

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  Giving Away Your Online Credentials

  By Kevin Hamel  |  April 24, 2013

  This Opinion piece looks at how easily compromising information is handed out, and how not to fall into that trap.

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  Threat of the Week: The End of Perimeter Security?

  By Robert McGarvey  |  April 22, 2013

  There are two kinds of organizations. Those that have been breached and liars.

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  Combating Cyber Attacks With Internal Controls

  By Bala Venkatramani  |  April 15, 2013

  This Opinion piece looks at how privileged password management can help prevent many, but not all, security thwarts.

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  The CISO as the Man-in-the-Middle

  By Michael Thelander  |  April 11, 2013

  This Opinion piece looks at how the CISO – the chief information security officer – now must navigate between the executive and the technical in the organization.