Ken Baylor

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  Threat of the Week: China’s Professional Hackers

  By Robert McGarvey  |  March 11, 2013

  Sino data diving heading downstream adds to urgency of threat to credit unions.

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  Nervous Credit Unions Seek Buffers After DDoS Attacks

  By Robert McGarvey  |  February 20, 2013

  Call it a frighteningly mixed message. In the last week of January, the al-Qassam Cyber Fighters who had been claiming the Distributed Denial of Service takedowns of some of the nation’s largest financial institutions, turned their sights on credit unions.

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  Threat of the Week: APT Will Get You

  By Robert McGarvey  |  February 11, 2013

  Advanced persistent threats are just that: Advanced, persistent and very threatening.

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  Cyber Fighters’ DDoS Hits Two Credit Unions

  By Robert McGarvey  |  February 6, 2013

  The bland name hides the lethal intent of DDoS when aimed at financial institutions, an event that has become increasingly common as dozens of large banks have recently found their online operations crippled, sometimes for days by highly skilled cyber-attackers.