“Five years ago, social media was a ‘no’ from financial executives,” said Amy McLlwain, Global Industry Principal for the Financial Social Media division of Hootsuite, a social media scheduling platform. “Fortunately, that has changed to...

Between 2005 and 2016, ransomware infections were more common than data breaches, making them the most pervasive cyberthreat of the last 11 years. Ransomware attacks may encrypt folders and files or even the entire hard drive, or they may just lock the devices so that...

The $2 billion Royal Credit Union in Eau Claire, Wis., said Tuesday Randy Beck (pictured) will serve as interim president/CEO starting April 15. He will replace Royal President/CEO Rudy Pereira, who announced last month his resignation to take the president/CEO...

A cybersecurity survey from Boston-based EiQ revealed a significant drop in business respondents’ confidence in the security technologies they have deployed to protect their organizations from data breaches and asset theft. The survey from EiQ Networks, which...

When a California credit union teller began stealing money in 2009, she knew it was wrong but she couldn’t stop. By the time her fraudulent scheme was exposed in 2015, the teller pilfered more than $410,000 from senior citizens, including a few who had dementia....

Credit unions have an enormous opportunity to increase their reach by better explaining themselves to non-members and weakly connected members, according to a study from CUNA Mutual Group. One out of four people do not identify themselves as credit union members even...