”If you think your organization is not going to be hacked, you will be hacked! The best education you can get is to get your companies hacked once and then you will find that budgets that were not available before will be available and time that was not will be found,” said the EC Council President, Jay Bev…
The truth of the matter is simple. We are in denial. We use the term ‘We will deal with the situation, when it happens’ Is that enough? I am telling you no!! Cybercriminals seek to steal your information, commit fraud, disrupt, degrade, and deny access to information systems. These cyber intruders are dangerous and manipulative. They are causing financial, operational, and reputational damage right now before your eyes without your knowledge. !
If someone told you last year that hackers are capable of stealing up to 45 million in 2 days… Would you say… Impossible? Nothing is impossible, we were completely shocked and angered when on December 12, 2012 and February 19, 2013, an international team of hackers and thieves stole a total of $45 million from over 5,000 ATMs worldwide. Eight suspects were charged in connection with the May 9 crimes… how this ‘hack’ was done. Mask involved? Weapons…answer…No…A hacking plan…at the tips of their fingers and a few keyboards…Was this the wake-up call our Society needed, that technology is becoming so advanced, what is it doing? It is easier for these cyber criminals to perform such acts and cyber security education providers should implement it in their banks!
Computer security is vital! World’s Largest Provider Neutral Provider of EC Council Cybersecurity Education Focuses Primarily on Cybersecurity Breach Threats to Organizations. The President of the Council states: “A country deals with cyber threats by managing offensive capabilities by creating cyber armies: the whole concept of having a cyber command will become a clear interface in the war systems of the governments”. The EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker flagship course, CEH set the standard for what the world expects from ethical hacking computer security courses, becoming one of the highest and most in-demand courses in the world for organizations, in addition to this that they provide Certification and Training in Information Security, Network Security, Computer Security and Internet Security. Therefore, the solution is to BE PREPARED AND MOVE FORWARD in your education, get your IT SECURITY. To think like a hacker… Educate! Isn’t this an indication for all CEOs of banks and organizations to have their employees trained as CEH? Surely this should be mandatory?
Cyber threats are a major factor setting banks apart, continuing to grow and become more sophisticated in Australia. In March, the Reserve Bank of Australia confirmed that its computer networks had been repeatedly hacked in a series of cyberattacks to infiltrate sensitive internal information. , including by malicious software developed in China, or malware, hackers penetrated computers at the Reserve Bank in an email scam targeting employees in an incident in November 2011, but details only emerged this year. A criminal syndicate had access to 500,000 credit cards and had already spent $30 million on 30,000 of them in transactions in Hong Kong, Europe, Australia and the United States. Australian banks face new and ongoing security threats, combined with destructive hacking! Why don’t we find out about the ongoing events and scandals in the media? What is the Australian government doing about it? Pushing it under the rug… As if nothing was happening? Are the identity of people, data files and money not important here? I thought that the protection and customer service within a bank was the number 1 priority? Another valid point that the CEOS should note is the vital safety training that you MUST have here!
How many of you have contactless credit and debit cards that contain a chip, so that when the card is held up to a reader, a payment is made without the need for a pin? Something as simple as going to your local Food Works store for a loaf of bread and a pint of milk? Would you think of fraud? To hack? The card readers that are now being incorporated as standard in mobile phones can be adapted to access the data on these cards!… Anyone can have your data! Via Forensics’ Thomas Cannon did a reconstructive test: “All I did was place my phone over his wallet and using the wireless reader on the phone I was able to pull up his card details, including the long card number, the date of expiry date and your name. None of it was encrypted, it was just a case of the details going out into the air. “This was with A Barclays Bank, who have up to 13 million customers currently using them… Although what other banks and systems are accessible. I am sure that the cyber intruders are planning their next intrusion with android apps that are advancing more every day!
Let’s face it… we are living in the 21st century, technology is on the rise, with big tech companies like Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, the New York Times, NBC and their affiliate websites already being ‘victims’ of cyber- hacking attacks and scandals in this year! Banks and finance are one of the main sectors that cybercriminals are always going to attack. Why? Money? Did you know that at least $15 million was stolen through online infiltration from 15 financial companies, including JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, E*TRADE, PayPal, TIAA-CREF, and TD Ameritrade, over a period of nearly two years? The perpetrators of the scheme were a group of hackers and identity thieves led by two Ukrainian citizens, according to authorities stated by the LA Times. This is an indication of how powerful banking and hacking has become.
The Resolutions are simple: we can never spot a hacker, we can’t point out some random guy on the street… the answer is that we can prevent our banks from having the highest quality IT security system input . Most CEOs use the excuse ‘We can’t afford to send our employees to these training courses’. The reality is though… When you get hacked, you will! How can you afford to make up for your loss? Where is your budget then? answer that?
Let’s think professionally and intelligently. Education is key to success… And the fact and point of my article Get Professional Computer Security Before It’s Too Late! EASY.