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Credit Union Penetration Test Malware Scam

Here is a recent scam reported by the NCUA and others. It uses a shipped CD to financial institutions with instructions to load them. The CD’s and letter are supposidly from the NCUA, but are not. See the following article on it as posted.
Malware-Infected CD Mailing was Part of Pen Test
By Dennis [...]

Quaresso – Web Security Solution

I recently had the opportunity to review the web application security offering by Quaresso (www.quaresso.com). There is a flash presentation as well as a PDF that explains how the service works quite well.
Essentially the software controls the end user browser better forcing better security as well as removing any sensitive information such [...]

The True Cost of a Data Security Breach: The Heartland Case Study

The True Cost of a Data Security Breach: The Heartland Case Study

While not enough information has been released to know the full measure of the Heartland data breach, bits and pieces have come and and we can begin to understand the impact to a company that has a serious data security breach. Kevin Prince of Perimeter eSecurity touched on this subject in a series of [...]