cybercrime - News, Features, and Slideshows

• AI for fraud detection to triple by 2021

  Advanced analytics and biometrics fast becoming central to anti-fraud programmes, according to a new global survey

• CIO upfront: Better cybersecurity practice key to creating value

  With cybercrime increasing in size, complexity and cost, firms need to take a fresh perspective on leading through this challenging environment, writes Justin Gray of Accenture NZ.

• MYOB wants two-factor authentication mandatory for all online financial service providers

  “We’re calling on the New Zealand Government to follow the example of the Australian Taxation Office,” says MYOB country manager Ingrid Cronin-Knight

• Australia passes bill to force tech firms to hand over encrypted data

  When it becomes law, Australia will be one of the first nations to impose broad access requirements on technology firms, after many years of lobbying by intelligence and law enforcement agencies in many countries, particularly the so-called Five Eyes nations

• What the C-suite can learn from the Marriott/Starwood megabreach

  The real question is, could the intrusion have been detected earlier?

• How should the U.S. respond to state-sponsored cyberattacks?

  It's no secret that U.S. government agencies and businesses are the target of around-the-clock cyber intrusions, many carried out by or at the behest of foreign nation-states.

• CIOs seek cybersecurity solutions, bigger voice in C-suite

  Issues like cybersecurity might keep CIOs up at night, but in Northern New Jersey, at least they know they're not alone.

• 'Dark' coins rising

  Last week, U.S. Marshals sold off another 50,000 Bitcoins that used to belong to Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht -- a.k.a. "Dream Pirate Roberts." Ulbricht was found guilty on all accounts last month, and faces up to life in prison.

• Kicking the stool out from under the cybercrime economy

  Put simply, cybercrime, especially financial malware, has the potential to be quite the lucrative affair. That's only because the bad guys have the tools to make their work quick and easy, though. Cripple the automated processes presented by certain malware platforms, and suddenly the threats -- and the losses --aren't quite so serious.

• Database Crime Scene Prevention

  Imperva's Amichai Shulman looks at database attack and defense.

Whitepapers about cybercrime

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  Business Email Compromise Survival Infographic

  Managing Business Email Compromise and Impostor Threats to Keep Your Organisation Protected. BEC uses emails from fraudsters posing as an executive. They ask the victim to wire money or disclose sensitive information. Only later do the victims realize that the email didn’t come from the executive.

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  Why Technology Supply Chain Resiliency Matters

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  Advanced endpoint protection for dummies

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  The definitive guide for evaluating cybersecurity solutions