{"id":349,"date":"2006-05-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/05\/10\/credit-unions-attacked-by-hackers-more-than-banks\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:37:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:37:05","slug":"credit-unions-attacked-by-hackers-more-than-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/05\/10\/credit-unions-attacked-by-hackers-more-than-banks\/","title":{"rendered":"Credit Unions Attacked by Hackers More Than Banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent study spanning from February 2005 to March 2006, SecureWorks saw 67% more Internet attacks attempted against its credit union clients than its banking clients.  SecureWorks&#8217; credit union clients range from large ($500 million to billions in assets) to smaller organizations (under $500 million in assets).   SecureWorks CTO Jon Ramsey theorizes that their credit union clients are experiencing more Internet attacks than their banking clients because hackers assume that credit unions&#8217; networks are less protected than banks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We hear many credit union prospects say they can&#8217;t imagine a hacker would want to target them because they are small,&#8221; said Ramsey.  &#8220;I believe these findings illustrate how important it is for all financial organizations to be diligent and thorough in implementing and maintaining a strong, defense-in depth IT security plan,&#8221; continued Ramsey.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.it-observer.com\/news\/6270\/credit_unions_attacked_by_hackers_more_than_banks\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-financial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2836,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions\/2836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}