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.

What keeps execs up at night in the payments, retail and banking industries? Quite a lot, including disruption from tech giants and competition from foreign rivals.

The assessment is designed to get banks on the same page in combating cybersecurity and make it easier for institutions and regulators to assess their performance.

The credit union service organization has added 20 new owners this year and has reached its maximum number of shareholders.

For hackers, ATMs serve as “welcome mats” for company networks where much customer information is stored, writes Eric Crabtree, vice president and global head of financial services for Unisys.

Executives can't adequately protect members if they aren't familiar with current auditing standards.

“We have actually discouraged banks from innovating,” FDIC Chairman Jelena McWilliams said in announcing a move that other agencies have made.

Even consumers are fed up with passwords, which seem to do little to deter hackers, but Visa says there's still some life left in the dated authentication method.

Self-sovereign identity solutions are becoming increasingly common as credit unions move away from less secure authentication methods.