FROM BANK TECHNOLOGY NEWS…
The primary driver of information security is-surprise, surprise-regulatory compliance. A new survey by Ernst & Young cites the “sheer number of regulations and the consequences of not complying with them” as the reasons that information security is now a boardroom issue. More than three-fourths (76 percent) of banking respondents to the survey [...]

From the Security Pipeline…
Enterprises should expect a continued move toward stealthier, smaller, more focused attacks on their computer security, IBM said Monday, with the weakest link – workers’ gullibility – increasingly the focus of hacker efforts.
In its annual “Security Threats and Attack Trends Report” for 2005, IBM laid out the major events of the past [...]

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On the heels of a string of high-profile customer data breaches that have consumers scrambling and privacy advocates saying “I told you so,” People’s Bank says that a backup tape containing personal information on 90,000 customers was lost while being transported by UPS to credit reporting [...]

From the Slashdot.org web site…
An anonymous reader writes “Researchers have found several security holes in Blackberry handheld devices and the servers that power them, according to a story at Washingtonpost.com. The research points out serious flaws in the BlackBerry server, which could be exploited by convincing Blackberry handheld users to click on an image file [...]