Data security

From digital assistants and new branching strategies to revamped hiring processes and improved cybersecurity, these are the winners of the 2018 Best Practices Awards.

California-based America's Christian Credit Union's efforts earned it a 2018 Best Practices Award.

Will prosecutors believe a rogue banker was behind Malaysia fraud?; banks that changed standards in Q3 were more likely to ease underwriting.

The massive number of fraudulent bot attacks on the payments ecosystem and financial services is compounded by the fact that many current data protection tools are not designed to detect this automated crime network.

Fifth Third Bank customers were swindled out of over $100,000, but not because the bank didn't have protection in place.

The Federal Reserve is paying close attention to how it might regulate artificial intelligence and machine learning, Fed Gov. Lael Brainard said in a speech Tuesday.

Motor vehicle agencies are better suited to vet customers’ identities than banks; Goldman unit is stealing customers from big U.K. banks.

Six months ago, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, took effect, threatening companies worldwide with massive fines if they didn’t look after customer data properly. Fresh research suggests it’s making a difference in Europe -- but not so much for U.S. web users.

Hotel and airline breaches have become far too common, according to Pravin Kothari, CEO of CipherCloud.

Social Security numbers are used to verify identity across the financial services industry, but their use is outdated and leaves consumers vulnerable to data breaches.

HSBC is the latest bank to be hit with this type of attack, in which hackers take stolen usernames and passwords from one site and attempt to reuse them to login to banks.

Customer card data from nearly all of Pakistan's major banks has been stolen in a cyberattack, according to a Federal Investigation Agency official in Pakistan.

The bank says a calculation error led it to deny help to distressed homeowners; a former U.S. deputy attorney general will help with in the 1MDB fraud scandal.

The breach may have occurred through a technique called "credential stuffing," in which hackers who have stolen passwords for other websites try them out on an online banking site.

Synthetic fraud brings the pain from many angles — a fluid mix of fake credentials and phony accounts that can overwhelm traditional identity theft tools.

If cryptocurrency is ever going to become a viable payment option, it has to have bank-grade security — and bank support.

Following is a list of the banks that made Vade Secure's top 10 phishing list in the third quarter, along with insights into how lenders can protect themselves.

The regulator awarded $2 million in grants to 203 low-income credit unions.

In honor of Halloween, a look at some of the spookiest cybersecurity risks credit unions face today – and how to tackle them.

With Cybersecurity Awareness Month drawing to a close, CU Journal asked experts a simple question with no easy answers.