Two of Germany's biggest banks became the latest victims of phishing attacks last week as internationally organized criminal groups roam the globe seeking new targets, according to a spokesman at Postbank AG. Postbank suffered its second phishing attack on Thursday, less than four weeks after the bank's first-ever assault, and was linked to a separate strike on Deutsche Bank AG.
Even though Deutsche Bank AG decided last year to outsource its IT operations to IBM Corp., German enterprises remain generally wary of handing over the keys to their computer rooms, according to one German outsourcing expert.
A company looking to beef up the security of its wireless operations should start with its own policies and standards, according to Ken Newman, director of security and risk management at Deutsche Bank AG. That's because standards and policies form the foundation upon which all security efforts are built, he said during a case study demonstration at Computerworld's Mobile & Wireless Conference in Palm Desert, California.