Penny Crosman is Executive Editor, Technology at American Banker and its publisher, Arizent. Prior to taking on this role, she was Editor in Chief of Bank Technology News. She has held senior editorial roles at Bank Systems & Technology, Wall Street & Technology, Intelligent Enterprise, Network Magazine and Imaging Magazine.
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The hacktivist group Anonymous, which brought down the Greek central bank's website through a distributed denial of service attack on Tuesday, claims it will be targeting financial organizations around the globe over the next 30 days.
May 5 -
Entrepreneurs and other financial-technology experts give some common-sense advice including: watch your pennies, live in the right places and choose your associates carefully.
May 3 -
New details unearthed about how cybercriminals stole $81 million out of a Bangladesh Bank account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York provide insight into how the theft occurred, some of the vulnerabilities that were exploited and what banks can learn from the incident.
April 28 -
New details unearthed about how cybercriminals stole $81 million out of a Bangladesh Bank account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York provide insight into how the theft occurred, some of the vulnerabilities that were exploited and what banks can learn from the incident.
April 28 -
Nearly half of bank data security incidents in 2015 involved compromised web applications, according to a closely watched annual report from Verizon released Tuesday.
April 26 -
Capital continues to flow freely into financial technology ventures, many of which are repositioning themselves as aspiring partners for banks rather than would-be disruptors.
April 21 -
A closer look at a strangely named piece of malicious software shows it makes crafty use of drive-by downloads and Web injections to fool users into complicity with online banking fraud.
April 19 -
A closer look at a strangely named piece of malicious software shows it makes crafty use of drive-by downloads and web injections to fool users into complicity with online banking fraud.
April 19 -
The inadvertent downloading of thousands of consumer records to a thumb drive at the FDIC could happen anywhere. Here's a look at what the agency did right and what it could have done better.
April 14 -
The inadvertent downloading of thousands of consumer records to a thumb drive at the FDIC could happen anywhere. Here's a look at what the FDIC did right and what it could have done better.
April 14





